UFC 109 Preview: Quote of the Day: Chael Sonnen on Anderson Silva, Chael Sonnen, Nate Marquardt
by Kid Nate on Feb 3, 2010 2:15 PM EST
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"I’m not holding back on Nate, necessarily; I haven’t been asked about him. Secondly, there’s not a lot of ammunition there. Every now and then in this sport – and it’s every now and then; it’s extremely rare – but you’re going to come across a good guy. For every dirt bag in this business, you’re going to run into a Nate Marquardt or a Chael Sonnen or a Rich Franklin somewhere along the way. Two decent human beings have ended up getting paired together."
Chael Sonnen talking to Kevin Iole about UFC 109 opponent Nate Marquardt and the surprising lack of bad mouthing Sonnen's been doing of him.
Sonnen also talks about UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva:
Look, he’s not my kind of a guy. This is a grown man that’s got earrings. This is a grown man who wears his hat sideways. This is a guy who wears pink T-shirts. This guy wouldn’t make it 12 minutes in my neighborhood. I live in a nice neighborhood and we’d still run him out."
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I have a bunch of friends in West Linn
Pretty much all of them wear sideways hats and the occasional pink shirt. Every 14-25 year old I’ve seen/met in West Linn fits Sonnen’s description. idk what the hell he’s talking about, unless he moved.
Sonnen clearly isn’t cool enough to be hanging out with them.
by HappyLittleTreez on Feb 3, 2010 2:46 PM EST up reply actions
This guy wouldn’t make it 12 minutes in my neighborhood. I live in a nice neighborhood and we’d still run him out.
That’s funny because I was just thinking that Sonnen wouldn’t last 12 minutes in the cage with Anderson.
by MesaDavey on Feb 3, 2010 2:19 PM EST reply actions 10 recs
I fixed it for you
“That’s funny because I was just thinking that Sonnen wouldn’t last122 minutes in the cage with Anderson.”
Don't believe a word I say, I don't train BJJ.
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If you like it, you should put a rec on it.
It’s obvious that Sonnen doesn’t like black people.
by WestbergIDFC on Feb 3, 2010 2:22 PM EST reply actions 8 recs
My thoughts exactly.
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What do we have for him Johnny? Yes. He’s like an old crusty white dude in a retirement home complaining about kids with baggy pants. Typical Republican. Closet KKK.
by MMAFAN FO SHO on Feb 3, 2010 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
well that must mean he likes black people? wait, it means he doesn’t? I am confused, what does that have to do with anything?
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
That he isn't a closet KKK
Just a strange human being.
That came out wrong, lol
I meant that my impression of Chael and his personality is that he’s a strange, somewhat entertaining human being. Even if he is a dick.
and your evidence of this was that he married an asian woman, right….
"For some reason Dana White doesn't like me, and I don't care enough to find out why. So he can go pound sand up his ass as far as I'm concerned."
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 2:47 PM EST up reply actions
Sorry if you got offended.
I only referred to his Asian wife/girlfriend because everyone’s accusing him of the KKK comment and everyone going after him for being a Republican racist. My comment you were replying too is only about Chael’s persona and nothing more.
But if you want to imply I’m a racist and do your best to one-up just another BE reader, then that’s fine.
I’m just giving you crap man, it is easy to be misunderstood here
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
Don’t lump all of us Republicans in with Chael. He seems to be on the extreme. If you truly think all Republicans are like that then you are no better than Chael.
Rightly or wrongly, guys like Sonnen are the poster childs of the Republican Party.
by Mocha Shaka Khan on Feb 3, 2010 2:54 PM EST up reply actions
Oh,yeah, sure Republicans are rich white racists, well if that’s true, all the Obamadan Democrats of this country want to create equality but taxing and spending this country into poverty.
by KahilBS_Marshal on Feb 3, 2010 3:31 PM EST up reply actions
I don't like to get political
But I absolutely love how republican’s talk about spending into poverty after the Bush administration. That’s all..
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
i’m a republican. i think its hilarious how if you’re a democrat, you’re cool and love everyone, but if you’re a republican, you’re a racist intolerant bigot. i just dont get it. why am i defined by a party i tend to vote for?
I'm old school hating Lesnar, I've been hating Lesnar since '08
it’s wrong, but quie a few leaders in the Republican party gives you a bad name, such as Sarah Pallin and Virginia Fox. If you had a bunch of Ron Pauls I’d love the Republican party :p
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I heard there was a black out in Chaels neighberhood
but the cops made him get back in his car and go home.
Pee-pee money is not an employment history.
My mistake
There was a black out in Chael’s neighborhood and Chael wouldn’t sell him a house. Sorry about the mix up.
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by finkrod on Feb 3, 2010 2:36 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
I don’t neccessarily see it like that. This coming from black person. I just see him as a guy trying to generate in himself. Now all he needs is his generates interisting fights.
by The Bronzeville Bully on Feb 3, 2010 2:37 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
typical oregon
he’s from oregon and racist – shocker! I had to live in oregon for 10 yrs and that place is still back in the 50’s. racism, widespread meth addiciton, and crappy economy sum this state up nicely.
CLEARLY he's describing black men...
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 3, 2010 2:47 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
I thought he was describing Jersey Shore at first.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
It was a joke. Jersey Shore guys wouldn’t have a shirt on. Although, not like the guy above. That’s more of a “college” town ANYWHERE, USA look. I live in a town with 6 colleges, and people dress like the guy above all the time.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
Sorry to say this but I’ve been guilty of committing many of those infractions above, while at the Jersey Shore and on my college campus, haha.
That is just…
You should seek counseling.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
Like joining the Republican party? :P j/k
by HarmlessNinja on Feb 4, 2010 5:28 AM EST up reply actions
Really?
Did you do it while playing Madden? And listening to Dave Matthews? Drinking a cheap 30 rack that you called a cube? While reeking of Axe?
Answer yes. Please answer yes…
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by pdl on Feb 3, 2010 3:01 PM EST up reply actions
Actually, I had a roommate who embodies this description, hence why I never hung out with him.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
I feel for you.
Must have sucked to wade through the empty bottles of Jager every day.
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by pdl on Feb 3, 2010 3:06 PM EST up reply actions
Nah, it was more like wading through wafts of Curve for Men cologne and self-tanning oil.
My other roommate smoked bricks of weed all day long, got fired from 10 jobs in 3 months, and got himself evicted the old fashioned way… we chucked all his shit out a three-story window.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 3:09 PM EST up reply actions
That actually sounds almost worth it.
I’ve always wanted to be like Letterman and didn’t have the moxy to have sex with employees.
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by pdl on Feb 3, 2010 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
Lemme guess...
O.A.R. is your favorite band. Or wait? Reel Big Fish?
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 3:02 PM EST up reply actions
Ahh, okay. You’re forgiven I suppose.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
Really?
Modern day is borderline. That’s like the one metal band that people that don’t listen to metal listen to.
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
Have you ever tried to get laid by drinking with a girl and playing John Mayer?
‘Cause that’s not ok, no matter how effective it is.
Eventually we’re gonna have to let this go, but your admission really opened you up to ridicule.
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by pdl on Feb 3, 2010 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
B/N right?
I grew up around there, I didn’t realize how much of a college town it is until I moved away.
by Mocha Shaka Khan on Feb 3, 2010 2:59 PM EST up reply actions
Everything about B/N is college except there is a pretty good cultural scene, great jobs, and the middle class population is fairly high. It’s a pretty decent town, to be honest.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 3:02 PM EST up reply actions
It has SF to thank for that, along with ISU and Country the area is pretty much recession proof.
Only problem is all those Cubs fans…
by Mocha Shaka Khan on Feb 3, 2010 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
Recession-proof for sure. The unemployment rate here hasn’t changed at all. I wish there were more good restaurants here and shit like that, and that mall is a shithole IMO, but… hey, I love the Cubs. LOL
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
I have to side with MTV on this one
After all, they bring the best music and programming to the teenage masses.
Woahhhh
Rural Oregon? Yes, often very racist.
Portland, Eugene, Ashland, Bend? Pretty progressive and liberal.
This is also true in many other states in the union. Big city or funky small town vs. agrarian towns and cities away from the metropolises.
This
The same can be said for any state with a large rural population; not that they’re racist, but their views will wildly fluctuate.
Portland Eugene Ashland and Bend is still sort of racist, but only in a self-righteous progressive way, and they tend to get less violent about it. It’s a shame because Oregon has the most beautiful coast I ever saw, and Portland, aside from the prevailing attitude of most of the people, is a great town.
No shit? All this time I thought I lived in Michigan. Where the hell are the redwoods and all the groovy hippie girls?
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
what??!
How did you get that he doesn’t like black people out of what he said? He pretty much said Nate dresses like a teenage clown. A grown man with earrings, pink shirt ,who tilts his hat ….what the hell does that have to do with black people?
If you make the jump to Sonnen talking about how black people dress from his comments about Nate maybe YOU are the racist one.
As a side note Nate in all seriousness is the whitest dude I have ever seen. I bet no one here can surf the net and find a dude with skin more white than Nate.
he was talking about Anderson, not Nate, he has only nice things to say about Nate the Great…
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Its easy to assume something of someone when you don’t know them. Nate has never been anything but class, in my opinion. Anderson has said and done many questionable things both in and out of the cage. He comes across most classy when he’s being filtered by ed soares…
Don’t get me wrong, Anderson is an amazing fighter- leaps and bounds beyond Sonnen. I’ll always be a fan of him as a fighter, and its easy to be cocky when you are at the top.
That being said, the racist angle is a weak way to defend Silva. Either that, or it was a great troll.
by grb on Feb 3, 2010 6:11 PM EST up reply actions
This guy is such a douche.
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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by KingAtRock on Feb 3, 2010 2:23 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
He’s making you love to hate him, and it has worked.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 2:28 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I know that he is just trying to get some hype because a win over Marquardt would put him in contention, but Sonnen just comes off as delusional and unintelligent. I don’t know why he verbally attacked Mark Coleman in another interview, and his beef with Anderson Silva derives from petty issues (pink shirts, , earrings, wearing your hat sideways?). I have to wonder if that whole thing that Sonnen said about Anderson now speaking English to people even though he can is even true. Hopefully, Nate Marquardt wins and maybe that will cause Sonnen to stop talking nonsense.
Thanks Chael, Way to remind everybody that the Republican party really is a big tent party and is actively seeking in roads in the African American community.
Yes, “African Americans” like Anderson Silva.
by Dlanor A. Knox on Feb 3, 2010 2:28 PM EST up reply actions 7 recs
I laughed really hard at this
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
-Muhammed Ali
Schools in downtown Detroit are so bad, guys come out speaking Brazilian in a high pitched voice…
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 2:32 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
I almost lol'd during a deposition when I read this.
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by casey manrique on Feb 3, 2010 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
Dude
Sitting behind a Video Camera during a deposition is boring as fuck. BE keeps me sane…Somewhat.
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I would rec
but speaking Portuguese. Not Brazilian. Sorry…
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by pdl on Feb 3, 2010 2:54 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Damn you sir, but you’re right on point there. And so the smartass became the ass :), though I daresay there’s Portugese and Brazilian Portugese.
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 2:57 PM EST up reply actions
There's more than just that.
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No doubt, but I grow weary of this :)
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 3:00 PM EST up reply actions
Portuguese from Portugal and Portuguese from Brazil at the end of the day is Portuguese, just like English from England and English from the US is still English.
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Bullshit.
I speak American, goddammit!
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by pdl on Feb 3, 2010 3:02 PM EST up reply actions
Those damn tea sippers can’t take my beautiful American away!
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
I've actually heard someone say that before.
At K-Mart.
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Were they ordering freedom fries and waiting for the red, white and blue light special to start?
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 3:25 PM EST up reply actions
He was buying a can of Skoal and a bag of Beef Jerky.
The mullet was almost magical. Like looking into the eye of the unierse or something.
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by Damon O. on Feb 3, 2010 4:12 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
The mullet of perfect oneness with one’s surroundings…
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 4:19 PM EST up reply actions
I’m British and worked tech support at an ISP in Texas. Some hick lady drawled at me “Can ah speak to suhmwan who tawks AMURICAN English?”.
Oy.
Get rid of the ramp!
let's think about this for a second
dark skinned people ended up in Brazil because of the slave trade.
Brazil is in South America.
true but I highly doubt Anderson has no Brazilian/Spainish blood in him.
and when people say African American they are normally referring to the US
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
-Muhammed Ali
it is very hard to be African American when you aren’t American.
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 2:41 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
South America
just sayin
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by Cory Braiterman on Feb 3, 2010 2:46 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
touche my friend
"For some reason Dana White doesn't like me, and I don't care enough to find out why. So he can go pound sand up his ass as far as I'm concerned."
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
American political discussion doesn’t allow for anything outside the U.S. to be important, unless it needs it’s ass kicked! War Americanski! Amerigo Vespucci is our bitch now!
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 2:59 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I have to agree based on my experience living in Central America. People there referred to themselves as “Centro Americanos”, Canadians and USA folk and Mexicans as “Norte Americanos”, and Brazilians, Chileans etc. as “Sur Americanos”
“We’re all Americans, you’re just gringos” they’d say.
by casey manrique on Feb 3, 2010 4:32 PM EST up reply actions
what’s a Brazilian or Spanish blood? Anderson Silva is black, just like I am black. there are black people outside of Africa and America. There are white people outside Europe and America. There are Asians outside Asia and America. Just because someone is from Brazil, or Mexico, or Peru, whatever, doesn’t mean they have their own race. Just like America, natives used to inhabit these countries, Europeans came and brought the slaves, and later on we got a bunch of Asians too. Same thing throughout every single country in the Americas.
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natives used to inhabit these countrie
Sorry… USED TO? What the hell, man?
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by AJB on Feb 4, 2010 4:33 AM EST up reply actions
It is indeed true that AS could be correctly referred to as an African American. South America has as much claim to the word America as North America. However the point I was making is not related to AS voting for anyone republican or democrat. Hopefully it was obvious to most readers that when republican candidate for public office verbally attacks a black man (who frequently spends time in the U.S.) for frivolous reasons it does not help the party’s cause.
from my point of view (I’m Brazilian), we are not Americans, we are Brazilians and proud, and Anderson is black, and Brazilian :p
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I know, we in the US pretty much made the word our own and everyone else seems OK with it. I wouldn’t call AS AFrican American but I also think that African American’s in Portland will be pretty turned off by the comment just as everyone here is.
I think it fits well for the US to be America, because you guys are the United States of America, we don’t have other words for you guys with the exception of Americans (unless you’re ok with Yankees, or maybe we would make up a word such as United Statiens?).
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he’s not attacking african americans here, he just happens to be talking shit about Anderson Silva(which he does alot), who is black. the comments i read come off more as homophobic than racist. he seems way more scared/disturbed by the pink shirts and earrings than he is of Anderson’s pigmentation.
Agree completely
I actually agree with alot of the Republican economic philisophies, but I just can’t get past their history of hate. Well documented history of hate, I should say.
by MMAFAN FO SHO on Feb 3, 2010 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
Where is the documentation of the Republican party being associated with hate?
The republicans don’t really have economic philosophies. Corporate statism is what the republicans pushed through the Bush years. There are small sects of republicans that align with Austrian Economics, but they’re in the minority. Most want to bleed the economy dry with military spending and corporate giveaways…wait, the democrats are doing that right now too!
Maybe, just maybe the whole thing is a sham?
Maybe, just maybe the whole thing is a sham?
Yesssss…. come to the dark side…. We anarchist can always use more new recruits!
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by AJB on Feb 4, 2010 4:34 AM EST up reply actions
Totally different kind, but I still love that crazy bastard.
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by AJB on Feb 4, 2010 5:52 AM EST up reply actions
I prob wouldn’t last in his hood either. I can’t imagine living anywhere outside of Portland, you wouldn’t wanna hang yourself.
by The Bronzeville Bully on Feb 3, 2010 2:25 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I guess his way of thinking is
If you can’t be successful, be colorful. And a dick.
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this is also a great quote
"I don’t do camps," Sonnen said. "I’ve heard guys do that. I don’t sleep in sleeping bags. I don’t roast marshmallows and I don’t tell ghost stories. Camp is for kids. I go through a training cycle where, from this period to this period, this is what I do and this is when I taper and here’s when I’ll lose weight. So, I don’t know how that whole camp thing works.
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That’s hilarious. Good job Chael. I really, really want you to endure a vicious ass kicking, and you’re fighting Nate Marquardt. I love it when a plan comes together.
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 2:29 PM EST up reply actions
you forgot this one
“I don’t lose weight, I eliminate it. Losing weight is for people that are forgetful, and it’s disrespectful. How could you lose something like that? I know exactly where my weight is going. Guys like Anderson Silva lose weight. Guys like Barack Obama, they lose weight. Black people, they lose weight too. Not me. Not Chael Sonnen. I eliminate it. You should be able to keep track of where your weight is going. Silva is too busy with his pink shirts and sideways hats, he’s a grown ass man. I just can’t understand how people can lose something like that.
by WestbergIDFC on Feb 3, 2010 2:35 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Wait… he actually said that?
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
I’m going to go ahead and say no…
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 3, 2010 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
No but the fact that someone believed he did means it totally fits his character
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
-Muhammed Ali
I had no idea he was such a shit talker
His trash talk doesnt make sense. He doesnt like Silva cause he dresses hipish? Well I don’ t like Chael Sonnen because his fights are generally boring and his rib sticks out.
by Myke25 on Feb 3, 2010 2:28 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I honestly dont remember him being this arrogant before the Okami fight. It rings of a sudden, inexplicable increase in his testosterone levels.
What he doesn't know is that
Anderson is actually blind. He doesn’t know that his shirt is pink or that his hat is on sideways because he can’t see!
I love America and am proud to be an American. Unfortunately, Chael is one of those “All American, being American means one color, I didn’t know there was a world full of countries and different people outside of America” American.
ya I agreee, all of his “nice guys” are white middle class Americans.
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-Muhammed Ali
I can’t even imagine his sales pitch as a real estate guy:
"You don’t do two bedrooms, man…"
"If you don’t want to live like a fucking imbecile, you do three bedrooms, two bath, and a god damn garage!"
"Two bedrooms? I’d kick your ass if you even mentioned you had a two bedroom home at a Sunday mass… yeah, right in front of all the kids."
"Listen… I’ll drop 10,000 off the price if you grow a sack and burn that Affliction t-shirt."
"Your wife wants her own studio? For what? So she can draw shitty stick figures. Two words: Man cave."
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 2:32 PM EST reply actions 10 recs
You win, sir.
You win.
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To be honest, I think Chael’s whole persona is a rib and he’s just saying all this stuff to sound as wacky and entertaining as possible.
Or he’s just insane.
YA THINK?
It’s OBVIOUS as hell that’s what he’s doing. Blatantly obvious.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
yet everyone still gets all worked up over it
it’s actually quite impressive that, in a matter of about 3 months, Chael went from nobody giving a shit about him to nearly automatic 100+ comment status
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Rogan: "No, no he's not. No."
rules for fighter bashing still apply even if you don’t like a guy…please keep that in mind
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 3, 2010 2:37 PM EST reply actions
I kind of want Chael to win now, just so he can have the Anderson Silva treatment.
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I am so glad sonnen is fighting Nate the Great. So he can get his ass whooped and stfu already.
by J smooth 420 on Feb 3, 2010 2:40 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Get his ass beat – probably. Stfu – not necessarily. A fighter’s contract doesn’t include a clause that says he must stfu after losing. Case in point – Ortiz, Tito.
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Feb 3, 2010 2:55 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Maybe if he got Bispinged
The only kind of losses that really seem to shut traps are nasty toe-curling knockouts. Fighters like Chael are really good at rationalizing/minimizing subs and stoppages. So without bashing, here’s hoping that Nate stiffens him up.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
Either his GF cheated on him or he has learned how to get paid from Tito
Either way this is a new Chael. Good for him either way
Chael Sonnen is better at trolling than the entirety of Sherdog.
by Lyrias on Feb 3, 2010 2:44 PM EST reply actions 10 recs
Uhh, no.
People KNOW how boring he is… and the only way he beats Marquardt is by being BORING as hell.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 2:57 PM EST up reply actions
That’s why he needs to talk shit to overlook his boring performances in the octagon.
by The Bronzeville Bully on Feb 3, 2010 3:01 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Well, this would be phenomenal if he was getting PPV percentages, but he likely isn’t. Everyone would tune in to see Marquardt bust his face open, and he’d get a nice paycheck for it.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 3:07 PM EST up reply actions
Seriously?
I thought he looked great in the Miller and Okami fights.
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
Performance as a fighter was good. The entertainment factor wasn’t as good.
Giving Shogun his props. I had the fight 48-47 Machida but Shogun put up a monumental performance and I am honored to have seen it in person.
And here I was starting to think
that Sonnen was the co-author of the hit American Idol song “Pants On the Ground.” Well, my day is ruined.
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Because having a person…
Can be very helpful…
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 3, 2010 2:46 PM EST reply actions 6 recs
*having a persona...
fucking tanked my own point
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 3, 2010 2:46 PM EST up reply actions
None of this would have happened if only there were an edit button. :)
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by pud333 on Feb 3, 2010 3:01 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
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by Cory Braiterman on Feb 3, 2010 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
I’d liken Chael more to a Kaufman style shit talker.
by DirtyML on Feb 3, 2010 3:02 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
And Brent continues the theme of racism with “having a person” followed by a pic of a black guy. This isn’t 1830 Brent, you can’t “have people” anymore. And I thought it was black history month…..
by ufc4 on Feb 3, 2010 3:04 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
As Gorgeous George famously advised a young Cassius Clay: “A lot of people will pay to see someone shut your mouth. So keep on bragging, keep on sassing and always be outrageous.”
Thanks that really makes me regret my “keep on sassing” tattoo a lot less.
Giving Shogun his props. I had the fight 48-47 Machida but Shogun put up a monumental performance and I am honored to have seen it in person.
by Day Man on Feb 3, 2010 5:16 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, because Portland is tougher than a brazilian slum... Right.
I’m Brazilian, and this guy wouldn’t last 60 seconds in a neighborhood here. You know, it’s kinda of tough to live in a third world country….
But, of course, Portland is waaaay tougher than a brazilian “favela”… rolling my eyes
Granted, Anderson comes from a real nice city, Curitiba, but he had a poor childhood, and I bet he suffered and had to struggle much more than this guy to get where he is.
It IS tough in Portland
What with all the coffee shops, after hours partying and strip clubs.
You Brazillians don’t understand what a tough life people lead in that Oregonian hellhole!!!
Get rid of the ramp!
Portland isn’t the tough part.
The tough part is the roughneck towns out and around there that do have some blatant racism about them, but I’d mostly blame that on the drug problem out there.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 3, 2010 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
Ill give it to you that parts of Brazil are tough, especially the slums
But that is not a third world country. Its actually one of the most promising first world countries
a lot of nationals love dissing the country, this dude is crazy. He should go to Chicago and see if it’s better and safer than here.
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I'm not dissing our country
I’m just sayng that where Chael lives is not the same as a poor area in any brazilian town, even a nice one like Curitiba.
Maybe you should take out your pink glasses and look around. I’m sure where you live in Minas you can find poverty and people struggling really bad to survive.
I live in São Paulo and I love this city. But I’m well aware that I’m part of a minority, and that most people in this town don’t live in good conditions.
Lol, ok Bambi. I’ll take off my pink glasses now… Yes, I know we are still considered a developing nation (never mind that our economy is still growing strong after what happened in a lot of countries), and yes, there are a lot of poor people in our country. I’ve been to quite a few places in the US and Europe (and São Paulo), and I can tell you that some of the places I’ve been it’s just as bad as some of the bad places in our country. And you should keep in mind that poor does not equal danger, I’ve been to favelas, I know what the reality is here and in quite a few places. Don’t take Tropa de Elite and Cidade de Deus as documentaries ok, live and learn brother, live and learn.
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I’ve seen Cidade de Deus, does that count?
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 3:35 PM EST up reply actions
just don’t take it as fact, it’s based on a true story, but every movie based on true stories aren’t necessarily factual.
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What do you mean nothing alike? The rise of a gangster that begins with a scene that chronologically takes place in the middle of the film, than flashes back, so that the protagonist can narrate through VO his life story, all while the filmmaker uses jarring cinematic techniques (freeze frame, jump cuts, breaking the 4th wall, etc.) set to popular music to tell his story.
Yep, nothing alike.
I guess I have to watch that movie again to make a comparison, it’s been a long time, but since it seems to be fresh on your mind I give in.
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It’s probably not worth your time to linger on it, but for me Goodfellas is arguably the most influential movie of the 90’s. Along with that piece of shit Independence Day.
I said most influential, nothing about both of them having to be good.
And I actually thought Rob Roy was better than Brave Heart.
Before that, if you wanted to make a major, expensive sci-fi blockbuster, you better have a top director attached. Think before ID you needed a Spielberg for Jurassic Park, Cameron for Terminator 2, or a Lucas, Lynch, Burton, or even Coppola. The studios didn’t finance $100 mil sci-fi blockbusters, unless a very talented director was attached. They would do crappy movies, and sci-fi movies, but they wouldn’t do big budgeted without someone who knew what he was doing. After ID, they realized it didn’t matter how crappy the filmmakers where, as long as the effects where good and the marketing team could market it, audiences would show up. Since that day we have been flooded with an endless stream of bad alien invasions, super heros, natural disasters, genetically engineered sharks and other crap from filmmakers who in the past would have been lucky working on some b-schlock. Independence Day was definitely a game changer.
that’s true, but can’t that be said of Brave Heart as well? It was very influential, I can’t count how many historic battle movies have come after that (not sure the correct English term for that type of movie).
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Brave Heart did launch a parade of historical battle epics, but it was maybe 2 or 3 movie a years. Look at the two changes in the film industry ID wrought:
1) 6-10 big budgeted sci-fi, fantasy, disaster movies a year helmed but whatever jackass they could grab from film school or off a music video set.
2) the way in which advertising was used to market a feature, No longer was word of mouth, reviews, or the pic itself important to sell the movie. After ID the idea was you need a visual to run (the White House blowing up), and you needed to build up anticipation – having black helicopters run up and down beaches with ID4 flying behind them, black banners all over American cities proclaiming Independence Day. Everyone was asking “what happens Independence Day?” Studios learned at that point that the movies themselves don’t mean shit, it’s how you market them that matters.
that piece of shit Independence Day
Oh no the fuck you just did not…. I mean..
wooosah…. wooosah…
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
LMFAO
I actually love ID. I cry everytime I see the scene with Bill Pullman giving the big speech to the world.
Course… I cry during those fucking Sarah McLaughlin ASPCA commercials too. Bitch…
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by funnytiger on Feb 3, 2010 6:27 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Show me starving children, and I’m like, “Damn that sucks”, show me starving sick pathetic kittens staring desperately out of their cage and I go to pieces…
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 6:46 PM EST up reply actions
Hahahaha!
I am right there with you. Those poor kittens…
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by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 5, 2010 2:16 AM EST up reply actions
Different movie, by the way. You should watch it. It’s called Tropa de Elite, or Elite Squad here in the States.
I’ll check it out
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 3:48 PM EST up reply actions
Now you’re just bullshitting. Find me a place in the US as rough as Vila do Mijo ou Vila do Cachorro Sentado in Porto Alegre.
if you’re talking about visuals, probably doesn’t compare well with favelas, if you’re talking about crime rate, which started this debate, I’m sure a quick google search will get you what you need.
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Is there a single place in the US where the cops can’t get in because their squads are riddled with bullets, or where the bad guys have anti-aircraft weapons? It’s not just visuals, it’s superior firepower.
yes, not sure about the anti aircraft weapons though.
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
dude, I’m not sure where you get that idea, police can enter a favela if the police wants to enter it, our government unfortunately is still behind in social projects to care about the favelas which is the reason we are still considered a developing nation. It has been left to the hoodlums to take care of the favelas, that does not mean there are crimes left and right, hoodlums wants the favelas to be safe for business. Now, there is a lot of confrontation between police and the hoodlums in the favelas, yes, but we’re talking about crimes within civilians here (at least I thought that was the case).
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oh, maybe 85% of the geographical area of Baltimore
‘The Wire’ is pretty damn close to reality, except with less people dying
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 4:06 PM EST up reply actions
I was in Japan at the 2002 game and saw him bag 2 against Germany, awesome
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 4:14 PM EST up reply actions
thankfully goals much to the dismay of the Germans surrounding me
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by keyboardwarrior on Feb 3, 2010 4:42 PM EST up reply actions
Hahaha
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
I guarantee he wouldn’t step foot in my neighborhood if he drove past and took a look and my neighborhood ain’t all that bad.
by The Bronzeville Bully on Feb 3, 2010 2:59 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Who would of ever thought Chael Sonnen would generate treading comments. Now if he could apply his persona to his fights he could generates some hits on YouTube
by The Bronzeville Bully on Feb 3, 2010 3:06 PM EST via mobile reply actions
No shit, eh? It’s amazing how such a boring fighter could instill so much interest in what he says.
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Well, half of the comments are a discussion about economic and social policy in Brazil, so I’m more inclined to give credit to BE members than to Sonnen.
Also, the other half are about whether or not Sonnen is a racist, which regardless of whether or not he is, has nothing to do with his comments, so I’m also inclined to give the much more dubious credit for that to BE members, too…
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by AJB on Feb 4, 2010 4:44 AM EST up reply actions
USA! USA! USA!
Oh, Chael! You make me giggle.
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Good point
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by AJB on Feb 4, 2010 4:44 AM EST up reply actions
We need a "Chael Makes Asshole Comments" Category at this rate.
What a tool.
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If you like it, you should put a rec on it.
Did’nt Anderson grow up in the bad side to town or something.
If i remember correctly, didnt he live with his aunt and uncle when he was a kid because hes parents could take care of him.
But then again this is the great Chael Sonnen, so nevermind.
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Chael…he says a few words and he gets people talking like crazy about him! The guy is a self promotor at the expense of other fighters…just like a lot of fighters. Man’s just doing what he thinks he has to do…He knows if he beats Nate (I know, no one is giving him a chance) that it would set him up POSSIBLY for a shot at Anderson. Well Anderson Kinda picks and chooses his fights..not sure Anderson would care very much in fighting Chael…not cause he’s scared…there’s just no money in it. So Chael is probably hoping to piss him off…just in case he gets my ole Nate. I think Nate and Chael could be one of the best fights of the year.
Well I'd say Sonnen has succeeded—once again—at the hype game
Get trolled by Chael Sonnen—You’ll be glad you did!
by capital L on Feb 3, 2010 7:03 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
I felt better about it after a long hot shower…
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 3, 2010 7:47 PM EST up reply actions
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