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You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Why Islam Makhachev Needs to Fight Ilia Topuria! Plus, Is Paddy the Baddy Really THAT Good?

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0

What's happening, guys? Happy Friday. And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome. Never a dull moment. In the world of combat sports and coming up on today's episode, it looks like Amanda Nunes is coming back, but do you even care? Plus,

0:24.2

Khabibb has spoken out about Islam Michael Chet versus Iliyat Duporia. And does Michael Chandler

0:30.6

suck? Or is Patty Pimbled that damn good? I'm going to get to all of that and more on

0:37.0

today's show, everybody.

0:38.4

Let's start here.

0:43.3

UFC 155 pounds.

0:46.0

There is a glaring and blinking light.

0:51.1

I mean, it's begging people to look, and it's important that you do.

0:56.9

All right.

0:58.6

What the hell is going on in 155 pounds is solely based on the idea that guys in the division of 155 pounds do not want to weigh 155 pounds.

1:10.5

It's important. There was a year. The year was called

1:14.5

1998. There's a sports organization known as the NCAA. Three wrestlers had died within the same

1:23.4

season. A wrestling season is small. It's three months, four months. And they'd all died cutting

1:31.3

weight. Now, later, we found out they were all taking something called creatine when they

1:38.2

locked themselves at a sauna and the correlation between creatine, dehydration, and ultimately the death.

1:45.1

Story for another day. But the point is, wrestler and wrestling in a sport that was notorious for weight cutting.

1:52.7

We're trying to lose weight through water weight and dehydration.

1:58.0

Three people in one season, so three in this little small period of time died.

2:03.5

And wrestling knew, it's not our fault. Weight cutting is not bad. This doesn't look good.

2:12.2

So wrestling knew that the NCAA cared so little about them and was going to put so little emphasis into looking out

2:19.1

and investigating and getting to the bottom of it, the wrestling itself must come up with a cure.

2:22.8

And what wrestling did, they added seven pounds to every weight, right there mid-season.

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