UFC On FOX 2 Results: Is Chael Sonnen's Bark Beginning To Hide His Lack Of Bite?

I do think Sonnen has improved as a fighter, but not by much. He’s much more aggressive with his offensive grappling, but it remains to be seen how much his defensive grappling has improved.

Sonnen talks a way bigger game than he brings to the cage. But it gives him the notoriety to position himself into the big fights. As David points out in this article, Sonnen is basically the same fighter he has always been, but now that he cuts promos like a young Hogan, he will continue to get high profile fights because people either love him for his pro wrasslin style, or want to see someone take his head off. This will all stop when Anderson exposes him this summer with what I can only assume will be an epic shit kicking.

I think it just turned out that Bisping had the perfect skillset and gameplan to counter Sonnen perfectly. He still crushed a lot of top MWs, I don’t think this fight showed anything of Sonnen that wasn’t there before, he is still the same guy that nearly beat SIlva

But Bisping has very crisp and technical striking which gives every opponent who can’t wade through for the knock out shot trouble. Couple that with some seriously underrated takedown defense and clinch work and its a recipe for a poor performance from Sonnen.

At the end of the day, Bisping is a top five middle weight and Sonnen beat him (I didn’t have the fight scored that way but all that matters is the judges did). He talks a lot but hes still a very capable challenger to any MW alive.

The Bisping fight is in no way a precursor to the Silva rematch because Bisping can actually wrestle

I myself think Chael’s stick is getting quite old and played out.From what I gather his fight with Bisping and his post fight rant were the only real bright spots from the Fox show for most casual fans and fans who were there live according to Meltzer and Mike Coughlin.

One thing I do know is not even 4 hours ago when I was getting lunch at the local corner store there were high school kids in there also, it was there lunch period and I over heard them talking about the Fox show and all they were going on about is how much they loved Chael and they all seemed to get a huge kick from his post fight renactment of Superstar Billy Graham’s Interview.

Sonnen honestly looked drunk the whole time. He didn’t even look like he could stand up straight.

When he says he never lost a round. I think he means in rounds that went all the way through. Not when he lost the fight by submission.

but then I checked his record, and this is interesting. At the time of the Babalu fight, Sonnen was 14-6, since that fight, he’s gone 13-5…

Not that that makes him the same fighter, or necessarily points to a lack of development, but it’s interesting that he’s more or less performing at the same rate he always has (all be it against much tougher competition).

Sonnen is an old-school specialist in the mold of dan severn, not much standup, no real submission game, but is tough as nails, works incredibly hard, and has fantastic takedowns. he’s an old-school grinder, and good enough at that style to beat a number of top MWs. his TRT use does put a major “*” on his accomplishments, though.

before this fight Bisping was awful and had no business being in a cage with Sonnen, now all of a sudden he’s a brilliant well rounded fighter and a top middleweight.
Bisping should be fighting Silva, not Sonnen

The first round Chael out landed Bisping in every category and scored two take downs. Obviously he won round 3. 2 rounds to 1. Pretty simple. People just hate chael so much that they are blinding themselves from what he does.

Bisbing is a very underrated fighter and Sonnen went to battle with him and won. He was in his face the entire fight from bell to bell just like he says he does.