Chael: McGregor and Aldo are scared, think they are going to lose

1+1= a TEN as the every awesome quote maker Chael Sonnen got together with the ever awesome quote maker Submission Radio. Sonnen touched on Conor McGregor and Jose Aldo (scared), Ronda Rousey (media creation), and Bruce Lee and Gene LeBell (wimps).

Conor McGregor and Jose Aldo are sure they will lose

“I know what I’m looking at, okay. I know what I’m looking at every time. I had my first fight in 1997. When a guy does an interview, I know what he’s really saying, okay. When a guy takes his t-shirt off, I can tell you every substance he put in his body. I know exactly what I’m looking at every time.

“I have never seen a fight of this magnitude, where both are so sure that they’re going to lose. Every time you have a huge fight in boxing, in wrestling, in MMA, both guys are sure they’re going to win. They really believe it. These guys are so scared of one another and these guys are so positive that the other guy is going to beat him. I’ve never seen anything like it.

“Conor McGregor is feathering a nest for a fall and it’s so apparent to a guy that understands the psychology of sport. I mean, he just did an interview where he was saying the secret ingredient to success is failure and nobody can really be the best until they get beaten. It’s like, hey listen man, that’s just not true. I could name a bunch of guys that went undefeated that never got – you don’t have to get beat. But it was a weird thing for him to say, and he was feathering this nest.

“And then Jose Aldo, listen, this guy is a chicken. I can’t even tell you how good Jose Aldo is, but he doesn’t think it. You know, when Georges St-Pierre retired and Jon Jones was absent, I had Jose Aldo the number one fighter in the world, pound for pound. That’s how highly I think of him. That guy’s a chicken. He’s pulled out of five fights, he’s already pulled out of this one once, and Conor doesn’t think he can, neither one of these guys thinks they’re going to win this fight. I’ve never seen anything like it. And the average viewer doesn’t get that it’s entertaining, it’s fun and it’s all these things, but I’m telling you straight up as an athlete that gets sports psychology, these guys are scared of each other.

There’s certain information I have, gentleman, because of where I work and being in the industry, that I just can’t reveal. So as I’m answering this question for you right now, I’m trying to process what I can say versus what I can’t. But I can tell you… I guess I’ll leave it at this, man, getting this fight together has not been easy on Dana White. And if Dana wants to share that, that’s his story to tell, not mine.

Ronda has been created by the media

So here’s the deal with Ronda. Ronda goes out, she’s in a division that if you wanna be, you know, if you’re a top 15 fighter at any point in your life, that’s a lifetime achievement. You can go and tell your grandkids about that, that your granddad was top 15 in the world. That’s a really exciting thing.

“In that division, if you wanna be top 15 all you have to do is make the weight class and raise your hand. There are not 15 girls on planet earth that are fighting. It’s a really rare thing. So the division, you know, when a division sucks and you’re an analyst and you wanna be respected in the sport, you can’t come out and say a division sucks. It doesn’t sound right, particularly when you talk about women. So you have to change your words and say ‘well the division is developing’. So gentlemen, I will say to you now…the division is developing.

Bruce Lee and Gene LeBell were wimps

So when you have a developing division, somebody’s going to take it over. So Ronda took it over. And good for her. But the reality is, that’s what it is, it’s a developing division. Now, anybody that is created by the media has one thing in common and that is Los Angles, California. I’ll explain.

“Bruce lee, who everybody covets as this wonderful fighter. Bruce Lee was a wimp. Bruce Lee couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. But he lived in Los Angles, California, so he was able to bring people that were in the media; producers, directors, future actors. He took them in their backyard, he kicked their ass, he was a wimp. But he found people who were wimpier than he was and eventually they got to media outlets and TV and movies and they all spread the legend of Bruce Lee. So good for him.

“You know, there’s a guy named Judo Gene LeBell. I don’t want to tease Gene LeBell. He’s a thousand years old, but Gene LeBell has this huge myth around him that he was some kind of a tough guy. Gene LeBell in his prime could not make the varsity wrestling team at my local high school. But he lived in Los Angeles, California, so he’d bring guys into his garage and he’d put them in armbars and chokeholds. And again, Gene LeBell was a wimp but the guys that he beat up were bigger wimps, and they went on to make it in TV and movies and they went and spread the legend. And that’s the way it goes.

“I mean, you could keep going down the list. Steven Segal. All these myths – Van Damme. All these guys that suck, they all had one thing in common. That was Los Angeles, California. So Ronda lived in Los Angeles, California – that’s where she lives right now – so she can get major media outlets and major people that are famous and have a voice, you know, to go out and perpetuate things. Look, she’s a solid, durable fighter, but the truth on Judo, guys, is Judo has never had a level of effectiveness in MMA.

“There’s never been a Judo champion in the history of the UFC. There’s never been anybody even close. There’s never been somebody that fought for the title that was a Judo practitioner. There was never anybody in an elimination fight that was a Judo practitioner. It’s a terrible, ineffective form of combat, and if you knew the history of Judo you’d lose all your respect for it. I’ll tell you it real quick if you want it, but Judo is very ineffective. So you have Ronda, that’s a really good competitor, but she comes from a sport that’s just not very effective.