Big John McCarthy and Josh “The Punk” Thomson are joined by Chael Sonnen as they talk Chael’s now-infamous comments about Francis Ngannou “fumbling the bag” by going to PFL/Boxing, his heated argument with Ariel Helwani, Bellator/PFL and more.
Join us on ONLYFANS for FREE! http://OnlyFans.com/WeighingIn
Watch WEIGHING IN XTRA here: https://www.youtube.com/c/WEIGHINGINXTRA
Listen on iTunes: https://apple.co/37XsRQ9
Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jSZSiZ
Listen on Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3jKXV82
NEW MERCH WEBSITE – https://weighinginmerch.com
FOLLOW the team on Twitter and Instagram | @weighingin | @johnmccarthymma | @therealpunk | @podcastdave
And Now 0:00
Bellator/PFL 1:30
Helwani Interview on Ngannou 11:45
“Fumbling the Bag” 26:22
Saudi Money in Sports 35:28
Next Move for Francis 44:17
Heated Ariel Interview 56:47
#chaelsonnen #arielhelwani #weighingin
36 Comments
Let's not do the revisionist history thing just because Chael sounds reasonable today… Chael has been on an active media campaign demeaning and discrediting Ngannou from the moment he left the UFC… you guys did not do/say the same thing as him. Chael is now trying to pretend like he only had two points, but he didn't and Ariel (who can be annoying I admit) called him out on it. Chael throws stones and hides his hand often. Let's be real.
Saudi royal family has more money than Bill Gates, Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos combined… generations of oil profits & oil money investments…they can afford to lose thousands of Fury vs Nganu type events. Saudis trying to rehab their image & promote their vaccination sites. You cannot compare Saudi money & UFC money…not in same category
Saudis gave Jared Kushnee 2 Billion dollars just for influence…that's 2 thousand million dollars for NOT fighting Tyson Fury & NOT promoting their vacation spots, so why wouldn't they put on endless Nganu fights…UFC needs to put on events to pay thei new owners with a profit, Saudis have so much money they dont need events to make profit
The fight sold 400k ppv on TNT, why ya'll leaving that bit out? 🤔
You are only talking about ppv buys in the US.
And before anyone says it, yes I know the price of ppv in the UK is half the price of the US, but its still a significant amount of money.
37:30 I don't think they are so smart.
Norway is smart.
I thought the 8 million was for a few fights not the one single fight with jones
Josh and John talk a bit or really too much compared to a guest. Come on.
A rematch with fury I think will go badly for Francis…fury knowing what he knows now about Francis will be a huge problem for him..just look at wilder and his fights with fury..
"Fumbling the bag" Is a mind trick to make everyone think that leaving the UFC is bad. He didn't fumble anything.
Tons of ads on this one. They obviously knew Chael/weasel beef would draw a crowd 😂
OMFG.. he didn't fumble the bag you halfwits.. (sorry to be rude) it was Francis dream to box.. if he fought JJ and lost, or any MMA fight and lost he wouldn't have fought the lineal HW champ. All this talk is stupid,Francis made his dream come true yet you wanna make it bout you and your opinion.. 😮 just stop
Big John thanks for the truth
The little mermaid is an idiot I wouldn’t worry about anything that muppet has to say especially when he looks like the only fight he’s even had is opening the peanut butter jar
Josh completely dominated that interview. The majority of the interview was Chael listening patiently as Josh talked…and talked…and talked. An interviewer's job is to facilitate the interviewee talking. Instead, this just felt like an opportunity for Josh to get a bunch of things off his chest.
Dave made his whole career giving bad numbers. His match ratings, horrible
Ariel is a biatch he doesn't train, exercise nows anything about fighting but he reports fake opinions for someone else platform.
That oil money can get more the the fighters then those in Bellator, PFL and Eagle FC, Brave , MMA bare knuckle and smaller shows .
Josh always wanted Ngannou to lose… it’s obvious as hell. 😂 Couldn’t wait to agree with Cheal
Chael is giving Ariel an easy out right now with the current climate. Ariel has always been a slimey POS.
I know the PPV market is bigger in the US, but about the primetime, the event started at 7 p.m. UK time, where Tyson is from.
What are you talking about the saudis not throwing money at things 🤣 you mean the country who pays Neymar half a million to post on Instagram? Or flying out all the boxing/mma legends they flew first class and housed? Josh how are you gonna sit there and try and compare the ufc bank account and theirs?? They didn’t get “rich off smart deals” they got eternal wealth off oil. Their goal is complete take over of everything and do not care if there’s no profit on this. This doesn’t even put a dent in anyone’s pockets.
I heard frank warren say on talksport radio that there was going to be a Big Fight Announced for Dec 23rd and even they rumouredand Hinted for it to be N'Gannou
Ariel won that 💯
Floyd Mayweather fought conservatively? What are you talking about Josh Thompson…he came forward with no regard for Connor’s power and hunted him down like ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd
uncle chael for president
Odd these guys didnt try feeding him a fake crow and laugh like they knew Francis would win…
16:30 apparently my mans never heard of Lomachenko
WHAAAT!?!?
Did I well eared?!
Did he said that Floyd got “beat up”? In the fight against Conor? REALLY?!
Sorry can someone explain me what he means? PLEAAASE?!
Wow josh really pandered to chael's "fumbled the bag" narrative he can not back down from…..francis made 10 million plus some. He didnt fumble anything. His next fight in boxing will before triple that. Dumb episode.
chael making less and less sense these days.
Im so sick of hearing people talk so ignorantly about the fury v francis PPV numbers… this was a British boxer vs a Cameroonian MMA fighter. Stop talking about the US and Canada PPV numbers as if thats all of the PPVs… majority of PPV buys for the fight was bought outside of North America. With just the north american ppv numbers, sure, francis didnt make an extra 3mil.. but with global sales, he easily cleared the additional 3 mil…nowhere near 20 still
I want you guys to grow . Weighing in need more guests .
There are commercials in this video , like every 2 minutes.
Just a brilliant fun informative show 👍
Fumble the bag literally means you made less money. What do you think is in the bag… money… your decisions made you fumble the bag and money fell out.
“I like listening to people”
That’s a real quote from josh, aka mini shaub. Let people talk brahhhhh damnit man it’s so frustrating lol, you have the GOAT on!