Well he did get beat by Fabricio Werdum and Dan Henderson. Dan Henderson never even became a UFC champion. I think Stipe is the greatest heavyweight of all time.
I agree, although Fedor has not done great in North America he has Certainly improved that stat, and I think Fedor hits way to hard for Brock to stand with, and Brock would have about 1 Minute to land a TD against(at the time) a fighter who moved like a WW
@The Truth Randy: "I want to fight the best in the world. I want Fedor." Dana: "I refuse to cross promote. You and Fedor ain't happening." Randy: "Okay, great. I quit the UFC and will go to Japan as a free agent." Dana: "Not for nothing but, you're under contract and we ain't letting you go." _18 months later_ Randy: "I'm broke and still under UFC contract. I'll come back and fight" Dana: "Haha, isn't he fucking awesome?!"
woulda, coulda, shoulda. then he shouldn't have dodged the brock fight, cain didn't. instead he went over to strikeforce and fought a tire changer (Brett Rogers) for pennies on the dollar and almost lost.
Lesnar has 8 fights overall he layed on mark hunt who fedor tapped out early when hunt was younger and stronger and KOed mir who beat lesnar fedor would have killed Lesnar for fuck sake brock Lesnar beat a 45 yr old randy undeserved title shot he is the 2nd most overrated fighter underappreciated but he is behind Anderson siilva as the most overrated fighter the guy who beat bums and has 16 losses
Blanco Diablo I’ll agree with the overrated #1 overall but his hand speed would complicate everything for Brock. Go watch any fight where he gets punched and you’ll see he doesn’t do well at all.
Fedor was making millions on his fights and Dana didn’t want to pay him what he wanted because he’d have to start paying his fighters more. Let’s go back to Randy and fedor. Same thing.
@John Atkins it's simple dana white and ufc where heavy invested in the ufc brand and fedora and m1 wanted the 50/50 split. That's like saying u have a construction business and a guy comes in on 1 project and puts up a wall. Are u ganna give half the money for the whole job?? Pride was highly fixed on top of that most of fedora fights where against people with a losing record. Nothing special about him in the ufc
It was a fair comment. Even though wrestling is fake, they chose to call their champ "heavyweight" because of the marketability. That's all Chael was getting at. Also, during Hogan's invincible streak in the 80s, a lot of fans still believed or weren't quite sure how real/fake WWF was. Sounds ridiculous now, but it's true
Listen Buster Out of pure curiosity, do you call WWE-Style wrestling, fake due to the predetermined winner, or because in many matches they will choreograph it? I grew up in Germany when I was a kid, so to be honest it was never a huge attraction to me, by the time I watched it, I had many questions. ( I’m an American, but I just never thought to ask anyone before when they say fake, which parts are they referring to, because guys do deal with serious injuries. And have seen fights go from theatrical to real)
@@gusgrau3594 yes, fake because it's predetermined. It's physical theatre. In terms of the performers, they're in a class similar to those of a traveling circus or Medieval Times, if you're familiar with it. Each day they have to perform incredibly physically demanding and dangerous work in order to tell the audience a story through their art, while trying not to actually hurt each other. But of course, injury occurrence goes without saying
Being Canadian, and a huge GSP fan (then and now), even I can admit that Anderson Silva would have destroyed GSP if they had fought when they were both in their primes. If they fought now? .. GSP wins all day. .. having said that, I still believe GSP to be the G.O.A.T., especially when you factor in USADA asterisks. Funny how many great fighters who seemed unstoppable before, suddenly couldn't win a fight anymore after USADA serioysly came on board in the UFC .. especially (but not limited to) the Brazillian fighters.
I was absolutely terrified of Brock Lesnar before he was exposed.I thought for certain he was going too kill Fedor but looking back Brock would of needed a baseball bat too even stand a chance. When i say exposed im referring to his heart it’s just weak,he’s a hell of a hammer but just a rusty nail. He can give it Cant take it tho.
Silva lost to bums and beat bums he beat the guy who dropped and mauled silva bisping silva ducked every good fighrer jake shields robbie Lawler luke rockhold Evan's cung lee he dodged all of them he beat bums look who he beat and for fuck sake if you think sonnen who beat silva in the fight not the match is a good name then please get help belfort and Henderson are journey men as well both combined have almsot 50 losses and both were at their worse when they faught silva lmfao Henderson is a brawler
fedor fought some of the toughest guys in the history of mma, guys who came to the ufc and crushed people, and he made it all look easy againts those guys, ya he didnt get to the ufc in his prime but i still think he would have easily been champ and for a long time
2008-2011 was such a great time to be an MMA fan. So many fighters had real auras of invincibility, and undercards fighters were promoted more so that every fight felt meaningful. There was the WEC on cable, and UFC did a good number of cable events too. The Machida Era, TUF 10 with Rampage-Rashad, Lesnar-Silva-GSP-BJ Penn as champs, Faber-Mike Brown-Aldo triangle... It was a good time. And let's not forget the Chael-Silva fight. God that was intense. Never been so hyped for a fight. The Ronda years were the dark years. The best champ was Jon Jones, and he kept getting into trouble with roids and the law. Undercard fighters stopped getting attention. Marketing became entirely focused on just a couple fighters. It segued into the McGregor era with "champ champs" and everybody calling out Conor and retired-GSP. And nobody defending their belts. This ain't the most fun it's ever been. Okay, there's my 08-11 appreciation post.
Man its sad i have to say Joe, i think he takes Mikes legs home as trophies, or his arms or his Oxygen, basically once it hits the ground i dont think itd leave there but itd be fun
I give Chael so much respect for being able to talk about these guys who have notched wins over his teammates or even in some cases himself and still be a fan, not showing one grain of saltiness towards them. A very rare skill.
@@benjaminthomas7164 Cro Cop when he came to UFC was long past his prime...he won some fights, but he lost even more...Brendan Schaub was solid fighter, same as Cro Cop then...Schaub told Cro Cop was the strongest guy he ever fought with...even Struve defeated Stipe...and Stipe is better fighter...anything can happen on giving day
@@benjaminthomas7164 how good was chonan when he made silva cry and made him run outta pride to fight bums silva lost to a lightweight at 185 who record is 8 and 10
Most slept on superfights 1.Fedor vs Silva 2. Hendo vs Lidell 3. Fedor vs Ubereem in Japan 4. Rich Franklin vs Tito when they were both champs 5. Kid Yamamoto vs Faber 6. Cruz vs Aldo 7. Rickson or Roger vs Sakuraba 8. Crocop vs Ubereem in K1 9. Juicy Hendricks vs Woodley 10. Jordan Burroughs vs Gordan Ryan in mma at 175lbs
Earlier in the video, Chael points out Anderson went up to 205. Less than 2 minutes later in same video says GSP vs. Anderson was never possible because changing weight divisions is a very new phenomenon...hard and fast lines back then that you stay in your division.
*every other fighter would be going around the block searching for dodgy looking juice dealer as there would be no juice left in the market if that fight between fedor and lesnar would’ve been made*
Question For Chael - Lets Say If Greg Hardy Fight With Walt Harris At Heavyweight And Ufc Make Them A New Belt FBMF - Father Of Baddest Mot.Er Fu.Ker Than Winner Gets The Belt ??! Right Just Like Fake Champion Masvidal But How Can He And Ufc Justify This Title Without Facing Stipe M. And Francis N. ???!??? Just Like Fake Champion Masvidal Without Facing Usman And Colby. So Basically Fighters Only Have To Fight Once And Gets New Belt ! It Will Be The Easiest Organisation Ufc In The Future and There Will Be So Many Belts And So Many Champions. Looser Will Also Want Their Loosing Belts As Well. You Mentioned About Fake Champ.Masvidal Fake Title Holder BMF In Previous Videos, Saying Masvidal Came To Fight With Another 10 Digit Looser And Became Champion - What The Fu.K ??! Is That How Ufc Make Champion Now ??! No Competition No Competitivenes No Rankings One 10 Digit Looser Fight With Another 10 Digit Looser And Ufc Make Them A New Belt And Now He Is Champion ??! What A Joke !! People Like Wwe Mcmahon, Chael Sonen And To Some Extent Dana White Are Very Dangerous For The Integrity And Fairness Of The Sport Because For Them Its More About Making Money By Creating A Buzz. Their Thinking Of Making Money Can Destroy The Entire Sports. Every Sports Needs To Be Fair And Every Title Deserve High Level Competition.
IMHO I think the biggest regret Dana's answer should have been was Anderson Silva vs GSP!! that was the super fight we the fans wanted to see at the time when they were both unstoppable
Chael I used to know Frank Shamrock somewhat I reckon, for a short period of time. I have a question that I didn't get to ask him...IMO Frank during his prime was the best in the game in his weight class. Perhaps any. What if you know was the deal with Dana and Frank..as far as just not being able to work something out..or it even seemed that Dana hated Frank... I believe many have felt like Frank should have been the UFC Champ during that certain time, and wasn't IDK... Chael I have always admired your work horse ability and win or lose it kinda reminded me of when boxing was the big thing and Arturo Gatti was the most exciting fighter. In as much so as he outsold some title matches even at times. Except your record is better than Gatti's lol..but you get the jist of it...
Dana white didn’t make the fight between anderson silva and gsp because of the performance silva had against Thales Leites fellow Brazilian dana white was very critical on how he fought that night
WILDER GOT EXPOSED BY A FAT ALCOHOLIC FURY I’ll rephrase to 2013 Aldo, but I take your point bc he fought chad twice and that was about it, and Pettis fought benson twice, but he also fought cowboy and Gilbert Melendez who was on a tear at the time 🤷🏼♂️
Marvin Bennett I wanted to see that fight for ages, I kinda hoped Pettis would get the job done if they collided. But Aldo didn’t want it and Dana “wouldn’t want to fight Pettis either” 😂
I really hope someone with more money than me pays chael for this these conversations get me thinking so much I dont watch anything else bud embedded and fights and the fighters !! Thank ya chael
I find the problem being greed, so by the time a deal is trying to be done. As you said ufc and mma moves so fast other fighters win or lose and it changes the dynamics and the the public's fascination with a particular fight or rivalry gets lost, then money and politics take over, a sporting system needs to be introduced. I think grand prix works well. Basically a league format of some description.
I definitely remember that Fedor Brock thing. Dana couldn't get Fedor to sign and he said Fedor had the worst people around him and he didn't want to fight in the UFC because they offered him more money then anyone would
Agree GSP and Spider . I also remember Anderson WANTED that fight bad. He was getting to the end of his prime and wanted a big fight to close it out, but GSP wanted nothing to do with it. I remember being extremely disappointed at GSP, really he had nothing to lose. If he lost he lost to a bigger guy, if he won he would go down as THE greatest ever period.
It's simple. I get a notification from RUclips saying Uncle Chael has posted a video. I tell my wife and kids I have to take a shit, so I can watch it without being disturbed. I click on the video, click like, then watch the video. Chael P. Sonnen, the hero we need, but don't deserve. 💪
The comparison Brock vs Fedor is a joke.. 1 is a wordclass natural with a prooven record of over 30 wins and only 1 loss while the other has nothing but a big body, supercharged with steroids and a joke of a record.. I'm guessing the people that saw an 'invincibility aura' on Brock weren't the brightest bunch..
No Chael. It's Jones V Silva or George V Khabib. But for me personally I would've loved to have seen Henderson V Jones. I think Henderson could've cracked that Jones code. It would've been a great one to see in my opinion.
The Brock era was awesome. The heat between him and Mir was real. He made Mirs face look like ground round. The Carwin fight was great. Even when he took his beating they were extremely entertaining fights. You have to give him respect.
At one point Dana was had a press conference scheduled around that time and everyone was expecting him to announce signing Fedor but it fell through. He still had the conference but announced they resigned Tito and had some sort of a toy deal.
Fedor would have handled Brock and made him look pedestrian IMO. Fedor, to me, was the most dominant heavy weight fighter I have ever seen when he was in his prime. And I mean no disrespect to Brock, at all. Brock Lesnar was one hell of an athlete. One thing you didn't mention, Brock made it to the final cuts of the Minnesota Vikings. He was something special indeed! But Fedor Emelianenko, man, I've never seen anything like it. The closest I've seen would be another Russian, the Russian wrestler who went undefeated for several years, multiple Olympic games, and was body slamming 300 lb men.
People new to the sport will never knew how beloved and respected Fedor was. Khabib looks invincible yeah, but Fedor was domimant in every aspects, defeating stikers on his feets and graplers on the ground. The Aura of invencibility that Fedor had is nothing compared to anyone else i can think of in MMA.
Dana didn't wanna pay up unfortunately. I wanted to see that fight so badly. Also agree Anderson and GSP would be an amazing fight, they were both in their prime.
Andsrson silva most overrated fighter ever beat unranked guys beat bums and tomaote cans has 15 losses failed for 3 type of drugs within 2 years was on roids his whole life
I just want to bring to everyone’s attention that the women’s pet and the men’s regret, Chanel P Sonnen, is less than 100,000 subscribers away from having more SUBS than THE ESPN MMA channel, this man does this with little help, and traveling covering fights. Truly still one of the biggest draws in the fight game... Thanks for the CONSISTENT content day in and day out.... GOAT SONNEN.
The visual between Brock and Randy as they're standing in between the ref before the fight is about to start is insane. Brock makes Couture look like a child.
GSP vs Silva in their primes was the real match we all missed.
Or Silva vs jones.
I agree with you both
Yoel romero vs Anderson Silva
Honestly seeing what Chael did to Anderson, I think GSP would have won a pretty easy but boring decision.
Logan McLean Jones could even have outstruck him for five rounds I reckon
Son: *takes first steps
Chael: OK great, but what’s next?
Heard the xylophone?
The UFC and Reebok should have been his answer.
Dana doesnt loose shit, jusy t he fughters...
Shepard Official your comment looks as stupid as you,,,you look like you are the wannabe hood version of dillon dannis
Nice
Spell the names wrong?
@@novajames6871 If you're going to put 3 commas in your sentence like a toddler, you kinda give up your right to call people stupid, James lol.
Let’s be honest, Tito vs Dana in bare knuckle is the dream fight we all want to see.
The Nogueira brothers against the bus. That happened.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
-Joe Rogan
I was there
"Little Nog was petting a bus, thinking it was a horse. They were going "Whoa, big fella"
Dr BarbequeSauce tried to feed it. I was there
And mcnugget feeding a bus with a dolly!!
Fedor beat 6 UFC champions, people still are saying “well he didn’t fight in the UFC so he is not the greatest”
Well he did get beat by Fabricio Werdum and Dan Henderson. Dan Henderson never even became a UFC champion. I think Stipe is the greatest heavyweight of all time.
WhereYouAtGeorge Both Year’s after his prime.
@Ocasio-Cortez4prez2022 Fedor also deserves respect because he was small as a heavyweight
carpentertrim Fedor was past his prime before he even lost if you seen the Brett Rogers fight you could tell it wasn’t pride Fedor
@Ocasio-Cortez4prez2022 Francis?
Fedor would've owned Lesnar in their prime. Fedor was a beast. Heck he still is
I think you're right...
I think you're wrong...
Will Wade I think ur burnt
I agree, although Fedor has not done great in North America he has Certainly improved that stat, and I think Fedor hits way to hard for Brock to stand with, and Brock would have about 1 Minute to land a TD against(at the time) a fighter who moved like a WW
Practically any good heavyweight would kill a clean Brock Lesnar lol
3 " oh and by the ways" in a row, damn you're on fire Chael
For the old fans, the fight we all wanted to see was Randy Couture vs Fedor.
MrJesseBell yes!!!! I remember when this was the match to make..... but then when Brock started coming up, I too jumped on the Brock v Fedor train
For sure!!! Randy would have merked him but we couldn't have known the way we do now
ya but randy had 0 chance of winning that fight, fedor proves the best wrestlers wasnt a match for him
@@vaden706 Yeah right. Fedor would have smashed him.
@The Truth
Randy: "I want to fight the best in the world. I want Fedor."
Dana: "I refuse to cross promote. You and Fedor ain't happening."
Randy: "Okay, great. I quit the UFC and will go to Japan as a free agent."
Dana: "Not for nothing but, you're under contract and we ain't letting you go."
_18 months later_
Randy: "I'm broke and still under UFC contract. I'll come back and fight"
Dana: "Haha, isn't he fucking awesome?!"
My girlfriend just interrupted me and said nevermind continue listening to that foreign guy. LOL
She must have said: Ok, great!
Which begs the question, just how good is she?
Ok great! But whats next?
Nobody could stand next to Fedor in his prime and there won’t be ever fighter like Fedor.
Werdum is the best Heavyweight of all time.
I think Joe Rogan v CM Punk would break the PPV record
Kabir Bariana chael should do a video on this
Lmao rwal talk.... !!!!!
Could you imagine how big any fight with Joe Rogan would be?
🤣🤣
The Last Emperor Was a beast against dudes jacked to the gills in Pride 💯
Fedor was in shit aswell
I think Fedor would have destroyed him quicker than Cain did
woulda, coulda, shoulda. then he shouldn't have dodged the brock fight, cain didn't. instead he went over to strikeforce and fought a tire changer (Brett Rogers) for pennies on the dollar and almost lost.
I highly doubt that, I think there's a good reason fedor never stepped in that cage with brock... fedor is #1 over rated fighter of all time
@@DamusNostril Fedor's promoters were pieces of shit. They wouldn't take a backseat to the UFC. Fedor and his Russian loyalty just went along.
Lesnar has 8 fights overall he layed on mark hunt who fedor tapped out early when hunt was younger and stronger and KOed mir who beat lesnar fedor would have killed Lesnar for fuck sake brock Lesnar beat a 45 yr old randy undeserved title shot he is the 2nd most overrated fighter underappreciated but he is behind Anderson siilva as the most overrated fighter the guy who beat bums and has 16 losses
Blanco Diablo
I’ll agree with the overrated #1 overall but his hand speed would complicate everything for Brock. Go watch any fight where he gets punched and you’ll see he doesn’t do well at all.
Fedor was making millions on his fights and Dana didn’t want to pay him what he wanted because he’d have to start paying his fighters more.
Let’s go back to Randy and fedor. Same thing.
Fedor demanded cross promotion with m-1 global with 50/50 split on everything.
Fedor was never going to actually sign a ufc contract
@John Atkins it's simple dana white and ufc where heavy invested in the ufc brand and fedora and m1 wanted the 50/50 split. That's like saying u have a construction business and a guy comes in on 1 project and puts up a wall. Are u ganna give half the money for the whole job?? Pride was highly fixed on top of that most of fedora fights where against people with a losing record. Nothing special about him in the ufc
@@Chefranqui he beat every top heavyweight at the time. Ufc was barren of goid heavyweights that's why tim sylvia was champ
Brock vs Fedor
GSP vs Silva
Silva vs Jones
Cain vs Overeem
Cruz vs Barão
Fedor vs Overeem
DC vs Werdum
Cain vs Jones
who remembers when chael knocked out jon jones ?
How can you forget
It was a disgusting knockout
‘His toe was out of the socket’
‘Let’s not forget’
Chael has never won a major fight.... all the fights he ever got was because he was talking shit, and he always got his ass kicked
Regardless Dana has put on the most exciting match making fights we have ever seen in any combat sport.
Took notes from Roman Emperors. "Give the people what they want!"
Notification Bell wrong! Chael has his own “competitions” but you are obviously just a comment section casual
I didnt know such a thing as a Dana Fanboy existed haha nice man
"That's where Hulk Hogan was at" - Chael P
I thought I was hearing things
It was a fair comment. Even though wrestling is fake, they chose to call their champ "heavyweight" because of the marketability. That's all Chael was getting at. Also, during Hogan's invincible streak in the 80s, a lot of fans still believed or weren't quite sure how real/fake WWF was. Sounds ridiculous now, but it's true
Listen Buster Out of pure curiosity, do you call WWE-Style wrestling, fake due to the predetermined winner, or because in many matches they will choreograph it?
I grew up in Germany when I was a kid, so to be honest it was never a huge attraction to me, by the time I watched it, I had many questions.
( I’m an American, but I just never thought to ask anyone before when they say fake, which parts are they referring to, because guys do deal with serious injuries. And have seen fights go from theatrical to real)
@@gusgrau3594 yes, fake because it's predetermined. It's physical theatre. In terms of the performers, they're in a class similar to those of a traveling circus or Medieval Times, if you're familiar with it. Each day they have to perform incredibly physically demanding and dangerous work in order to tell the audience a story through their art, while trying not to actually hurt each other. But of course, injury occurrence goes without saying
@Gus Grau you know actors get injured while performing stunts, those that make movie real
Anderson Silva vs GSP in their prime. Can’t believe that never happened!
Being Canadian, and a huge GSP fan (then and now), even I can admit that Anderson Silva would have destroyed GSP if they had fought when they were both in their primes.
If they fought now? .. GSP wins all day.
.. having said that, I still believe GSP to be the G.O.A.T., especially when you factor in USADA asterisks.
Funny how many great fighters who seemed unstoppable before, suddenly couldn't win a fight anymore after USADA serioysly came on board in the UFC .. especially (but not limited to) the Brazillian fighters.
Chael vs all the fighters in a giant rumble was the biggest missed opportunity, but then again the Ufc would be out of fighters if that happened.
Is Chael the new Chuck Norris? Am I *that* old?
Haha
@@benjaminlamptey1867 well back in the day chuck challenged chael to a fight.. the loser had to dress up like a cowboy for the next decade
Blanco Diablo omg this ⬆️!!! 😂
UNCLE CHAEL! THERES NOBODY QUITE LIKE UNCLE CHAEL!
Jones vs Velasquez was the fight I wanted back in the day
Fedor would have smashed Randy, he was too fast and too explosive.
Nope. Wrestling hater
Yeah we've heard that one before Captain America was also Captain Upset Randy wasn't an easy out for anybody until he was almost 50 years old
Yeah i loved Randy but he wouldn’t stand a chance against Fedor
@Graham Hancucked fedor beat better competion the randy
@@khabibistheking7686 he also cheated to avoid getting taken down by matt lindland who isn't near randy's level.
I love when Uncle Chael throws The Hulkster in the Heavy Weight Convo.
I know right it kills me lol
Hulkster can still contend for the title.
Chael im just waiting on you to make an analysis on the recent conor interview. Best fighter and interview analyser in the game
Fedor is the all time goat
I would have love to see Chuck Liddell vs Wanderla Silva back when they were the baddest LHW's on the planet.
They forgot to play the "Turn off your cellphones" warning before this one.
I was absolutely terrified of Brock Lesnar before he was exposed.I thought for certain he was going too kill Fedor but looking back Brock would of needed a baseball bat too even stand a chance.
When i say exposed im referring to his heart it’s just weak,he’s a hell of a hammer but just a rusty nail.
He can give it
Cant take it tho.
Fedor vs Cormier
Fedor vs Couture
Fedor vs Cain
Mirko vs Couture
Lidell vs Henderson
Hunt vs Nganou
Wand vs Menhoef
Jones vs Johnson
Werdum vs Barnet
Yo chael happy new year.. Love the content
Daniel Hynes 😂
Has anyone else started to cross their legs the way Chael does it?
Aldo vs Pettis
Brock vs Fedor
GSP vs Anderson
Jones vs Anderson
Jones vs Cain
Diaz vs Mayhem
Shogun vs Wand
Randy vs Fedor
the greatest match that UFC missed was GSP against Anderson Silva in their prime. that was the fight the world wanted to see
Bay Bye oh yes brother
Except GSP.
Silva lost to bums and beat bums he beat the guy who dropped and mauled silva bisping silva ducked every good fighrer jake shields robbie Lawler luke rockhold Evan's cung lee he dodged all of them he beat bums look who he beat and for fuck sake if you think sonnen who beat silva in the fight not the match is a good name then please get help belfort and Henderson are journey men as well both combined have almsot 50 losses and both were at their worse when they faught silva lmfao Henderson is a brawler
WILDER GOT EXPOSED BY A FAT ALCOHOLIC FURY I hate your beta male existence
fedor fought some of the toughest guys in the history of mma, guys who came to the ufc and crushed people, and he made it all look easy againts those guys, ya he didnt get to the ufc in his prime but i still think he would have easily been champ and for a long time
Derek Young still the fight would’ve been pretty awesome.
Which fighter do you think would’ve had the best chance?
2008-2011 was such a great time to be an MMA fan. So many fighters had real auras of invincibility, and undercards fighters were promoted more so that every fight felt meaningful. There was the WEC on cable, and UFC did a good number of cable events too. The Machida Era, TUF 10 with Rampage-Rashad, Lesnar-Silva-GSP-BJ Penn as champs, Faber-Mike Brown-Aldo triangle... It was a good time.
And let's not forget the Chael-Silva fight. God that was intense. Never been so hyped for a fight.
The Ronda years were the dark years. The best champ was Jon Jones, and he kept getting into trouble with roids and the law. Undercard fighters stopped getting attention. Marketing became entirely focused on just a couple fighters. It segued into the McGregor era with "champ champs" and everybody calling out Conor and retired-GSP. And nobody defending their belts. This ain't the most fun it's ever been.
Okay, there's my 08-11 appreciation post.
Not having You fight Artem lobov to determine who the goat really is
LOL You read my mind and got the take out first!!😄
Fighting in heavyweight/light heavyweight isn't new. It's been going on since the early to mid 2000s.
Wanderlei vs Chuck. Before they both started getting knocked out
Joe rogan vs Mike Tyson: current ages, MMA match
Man its sad i have to say Joe, i think he takes Mikes legs home as trophies, or his arms or his Oxygen, basically once it hits the ground i dont think itd leave there but itd be fun
Think if it’s kept standing Mikes boxing would just be to much but as soon as that’s on the ground Joe takes that with ease
Ok great but how is Joe's wrestling?
@@mxjaz82 he wrestled in high school its enough
Think unthoughtful thoughts no he didnt
The original Ngannou vs Blaydes matchup has caused a lot of problems.
I give Chael so much respect for being able to talk about these guys who have notched wins over his teammates or even in some cases himself and still be a fan, not showing one grain of saltiness towards them. A very rare skill.
I guess we haven't seen what would happen and how would that thing play out
How bout
Chuck vs wand (earlier)
Shogun vs wand
Barnett vs fedor
Vitor vs shogun
Wand vs vitor ll
Arona vs ortiz
Aleksander vs sylvia
Silva vs wand
I love how Chael goes back 10 years like it was yesterday. This guy knows his shit.
Cro Cop was only guy who gave Fedor some fightback..Fedor won on points...fair, but that was called match of decade, even bigger
Ante which begs the question. How good is Brendon Shaub defeating cro cop
Crocop was washed up after 2007 tournament. That fight was a war though. Back when fedor had a chin
@@benjaminthomas7164 Cro Cop when he came to UFC was long past his prime...he won some fights, but he lost even more...Brendan Schaub was solid fighter, same as Cro Cop then...Schaub told Cro Cop was the strongest guy he ever fought with...even Struve defeated Stipe...and Stipe is better fighter...anything can happen on giving day
@@benjaminthomas7164 how good was chonan when he made silva cry and made him run outta pride to fight bums silva lost to a lightweight at 185 who record is 8 and 10
Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Demetrius Johnson
Hell yeah
Chael is about to turn his hot take up a notch when he says “oh and by the way”
മമ്മുക്ക.. 😂
Or when he say "But i think there's a discussion too be had"
Most slept on superfights
1.Fedor vs Silva
2. Hendo vs Lidell
3. Fedor vs Ubereem in Japan
4. Rich Franklin vs Tito when they were both champs
5. Kid Yamamoto vs Faber
6. Cruz vs Aldo
7. Rickson or Roger vs Sakuraba
8. Crocop vs Ubereem in K1
9. Juicy Hendricks vs Woodley
10. Jordan Burroughs vs Gordan Ryan in mma at 175lbs
I honestly choked on my food when he said what the hell goes on in South Dakota
Fedor vs Chael was Chaels biggest regret.
I would’ve quite liked to see Conor fight khabib before his boxing match with floyd
He still couldn't wrestle and would've been even smaller.
Earlier in the video, Chael points out Anderson went up to 205. Less than 2 minutes later in same video says GSP vs. Anderson was never possible because changing weight divisions is a very new phenomenon...hard and fast lines back then that you stay in your division.
I would've loved to see Chael fight Anderson. It's a shame we never saw got to see it.
Kyle Long 😆 u got alzheimers fam?
@@iamLODD no sir and I honestly think Uncle Chael would beat Anderson in every round
Kyle Long 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I agree Chael, Silva v.s. GSP is still my #1 fight to see that hasn't happened
*every other fighter would be going around the block searching for dodgy looking juice dealer as there would be no juice left in the market if that fight between fedor and lesnar would’ve been made*
Diaz vs Lawler UFC 209
Fedor vs Brock
DC or Jones vs Brock
GSP vs Silva
Brock vs Murr 3
Just some off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more.
Question For Chael - Lets Say If Greg Hardy Fight With Walt Harris At Heavyweight And Ufc Make Them A New Belt FBMF - Father Of Baddest Mot.Er Fu.Ker Than Winner Gets The Belt ??! Right Just Like Fake Champion Masvidal
But How Can He And Ufc Justify This Title Without Facing Stipe M. And Francis N. ???!??? Just Like Fake Champion Masvidal Without Facing Usman And Colby.
So Basically Fighters Only Have To Fight Once And Gets New Belt !
It Will Be The Easiest Organisation Ufc In The Future and There Will Be So Many Belts And So Many Champions. Looser Will Also Want Their Loosing Belts As Well.
You Mentioned About Fake Champ.Masvidal Fake Title Holder BMF In Previous Videos, Saying Masvidal Came To Fight With Another 10 Digit Looser And Became Champion - What The Fu.K ??! Is That How Ufc Make Champion Now ??!
No Competition
No Competitivenes
No Rankings
One 10 Digit Looser Fight With Another 10 Digit Looser And Ufc Make Them A New Belt And Now He Is Champion ??!
What A Joke !!
People Like Wwe Mcmahon, Chael Sonen And To Some Extent Dana White Are Very Dangerous For The Integrity And Fairness Of The Sport Because For Them Its More About Making Money By Creating A Buzz. Their Thinking Of Making Money Can Destroy The Entire Sports. Every Sports Needs To Be Fair And Every Title Deserve High Level Competition.
1. Fedor vs Cain
2. GSP vs Silva
3. Punk vs Gall 2
"Brock and Fedor would have been competitive" as much as Brock and Velasquez and Brock and Overeem were
IMHO I think the biggest regret Dana's answer should have been was Anderson Silva vs GSP!! that was the super fight we the fans wanted to see at the time when they were both unstoppable
Silva unstoppable man has lost 15 times 8 of them to fucking tomatoes guy mvp is mopping in bellator lmfao silva beat who lol
Still think Anderson Silva vs GSP is the biggest super fight that could have been done.
I agree with you 100% Chael. Anderson v GSP is the fight I really wanted to see but never came into fruition.
Anderson vs. St. Pierre would’ve been one of the best showcases of skill of all time - plausibly.
Good say Chael.
waiting on the conor interview response
Chael I used to know Frank Shamrock somewhat I reckon, for a short period of time. I have a question that I didn't get to ask him...IMO Frank during his prime was the best in the game in his weight class. Perhaps any. What if you know was the deal with Dana and Frank..as far as just not being able to work something out..or it even seemed that Dana hated Frank... I believe many have felt like Frank should have been the UFC Champ during that certain time, and wasn't IDK... Chael I have always admired your work horse ability and win or lose it kinda reminded me of when boxing was the big thing and Arturo Gatti was the most exciting fighter. In as much so as he outsold some title matches even at times. Except your record is better than Gatti's lol..but you get the jist of it...
Dana white didn’t make the fight between anderson silva and gsp because of the performance silva had against Thales Leites fellow Brazilian dana white was very critical on how he fought that night
Prime Pettis vs Prime Aldo would have been interesting.
Aldo is in his prime still lol he faught mostly bums it showed and Pettis as well who did Pettis beat other then Henderson?lmfao
WILDER GOT EXPOSED BY A FAT ALCOHOLIC FURY I’ll rephrase to 2013 Aldo, but I take your point bc he fought chad twice and that was about it, and Pettis fought benson twice, but he also fought cowboy and Gilbert Melendez who was on a tear at the time 🤷🏼♂️
Marvin Bennett I wanted to see that fight for ages, I kinda hoped Pettis would get the job done if they collided. But Aldo didn’t want it and Dana “wouldn’t want to fight Pettis either” 😂
@@the_ttl Gilbert biggest wins was a can named Jorge masvidal he went 1 and 5 in ufc lol
WILDER GOT EXPOSED BY A FAT ALCOHOLIC FURY equally tho he had won 7 out of 8 going into it which is probably why he got the nod
You forgot to mention Brock played briefly for the Minnesota Vikings 😎
Would have been a nice little caveat into " Oh! And by the way..."
I remember this like it was yesterday.
Rumble vs Jones for me, I love the idea of Silva vs GSP though. Hopefully I and we all get a Rumble vs Jones heavyweight fight this year.
I really hope someone with more money than me pays chael for this these conversations get me thinking so much I dont watch anything else bud embedded and fights and the fighters !! Thank ya chael
Oh, I remember that time period Chael
Brock's loss against Mir wasn't his first mma fight.
It fits chael narrative
it was his second, but it was his first fight in the ufc
@@Somalia690 that's what I think Chael was trying to say and it would make sense then
You the man Chael
I find the problem being greed, so by the time a deal is trying to be done. As you said ufc and mma moves so fast other fighters win or lose and it changes the dynamics and the the public's fascination with a particular fight or rivalry gets lost, then money and politics take over, a sporting system needs to be introduced. I think grand prix works well.
Basically a league format of some description.
I definitely remember that Fedor Brock thing. Dana couldn't get Fedor to sign and he said Fedor had the worst people around him and he didn't want to fight in the UFC because they offered him more money then anyone would
Fedor vs. BROCK is a dig at Randy Couture.
That phone in the background. And Chael never even flinches. Well done, sir.
Agree GSP and Spider . I also remember Anderson WANTED that fight bad. He was getting to the end of his prime and wanted a big fight to close it out, but GSP wanted nothing to do with it. I remember being extremely disappointed at GSP, really he had nothing to lose. If he lost he lost to a bigger guy, if he won he would go down as THE greatest ever period.
It's simple. I get a notification from RUclips saying Uncle Chael has posted a video. I tell my wife and kids I have to take a shit, so I can watch it without being disturbed. I click on the video, click like, then watch the video. Chael P. Sonnen, the hero we need, but don't deserve. 💪
The comparison Brock vs Fedor is a joke..
1 is a wordclass natural with a prooven record of over 30 wins and only 1 loss while the other has nothing but a big body, supercharged with steroids and a joke of a record..
I'm guessing the people that saw an 'invincibility aura' on Brock weren't the brightest bunch..
Oh and by the way.... You move to the head of the class!!!!
No Chael. It's Jones V Silva or George V Khabib. But for me personally I would've loved to have seen Henderson V Jones. I think Henderson could've cracked that Jones code. It would've been a great one to see in my opinion.
I need Chael videos daily
The Brock era was awesome. The heat between him and Mir was real. He made Mirs face look like ground round. The Carwin fight was great. Even when he took his beating they were extremely entertaining fights. You have to give him respect.
If it weren’t for frankie, yah-rear would have an error of invincibility too
Liddel v W. Silva primes had a lot of smoke behind that matchup.
I hated the GSP v Anderson matchup. Always have.
At one point Dana was had a press conference scheduled around that time and everyone was expecting him to announce signing Fedor but it fell through. He still had the conference but announced they resigned Tito and had some sort of a toy deal.
Fedor would have handled Brock and made him look pedestrian IMO. Fedor, to me, was the most dominant heavy weight fighter I have ever seen when he was in his prime. And I mean no disrespect to Brock, at all. Brock Lesnar was one hell of an athlete. One thing you didn't mention, Brock made it to the final cuts of the Minnesota Vikings. He was something special indeed! But Fedor Emelianenko, man, I've never seen anything like it. The closest I've seen would be another Russian, the Russian wrestler who went undefeated for several years, multiple Olympic games, and was body slamming 300 lb men.
People new to the sport will never knew how beloved and respected Fedor was. Khabib looks invincible yeah, but Fedor was domimant in every aspects, defeating stikers on his feets and graplers on the ground. The Aura of invencibility that Fedor had is nothing compared to anyone else i can think of in MMA.
Where do I send in a fan question video? Please and Thank you.
Dana didn't wanna pay up unfortunately. I wanted to see that fight so badly. Also agree Anderson and GSP would be an amazing fight, they were both in their prime.
Randy VS. Fedor is my "what if?" fight, even though Big Nog smashed Randy, and Fedor smashed Big Nog.
Chuck Shipley if that’s your dream fight than you know that mma math is useless
@@jimmyv1753 In my best Chris Berman "And that's why they play the game!"
Andsrson silva most overrated fighter ever beat unranked guys beat bums and tomaote cans has 15 losses failed for 3 type of drugs within 2 years was on roids his whole life
I just want to bring to everyone’s attention that the women’s pet and the men’s regret, Chanel P Sonnen, is less than 100,000 subscribers away from having more SUBS than THE ESPN MMA channel, this man does this with little help, and traveling covering fights. Truly still one of the biggest draws in the fight game... Thanks for the CONSISTENT content day in and day out.... GOAT SONNEN.
Nick Diaz vs mayhem.
Anderson vs gsp would have been a good fight. Always wanted that to happen at the time when they were more in their prime
The visual between Brock and Randy as they're standing in between the ref before the fight is about to start is insane. Brock makes Couture look like a child.
Where was this Dana white interview
Chael "Oh, and by the way" Sonnen
You just now catching on?
@@brandish4952 I bet your middle name is Turner