Sonnen rips on Silva, GSP and Lesnar

Chael Sonnen's Q & A session with UFC fans was everything that people were hoping for, and then some. Here are some high points.

On Anderson Silva: "Is Anderson here somewhere? I'll kick his ass from Austin all the way to San Antonio.

"People keep saying, 'Chael, you're hyping the fight.' No I'm not. Hyping a fight is when I tell you guys, 'This is going to be a great fight.' I did just the opposite (before the first fight), and I'm going to do just the opposite now. This is not going to be a great fight. This is going to be him getting beat up for 25 minutes or until he gives up."

"I think [Silva] is a great fighter, but he's not as good as me. He's not as good as Yushin Okami, either. He's not the best guy in the world, and he never has been. He's a sham. He's one of these guys that throws leg kicks. So what if you get get kicked in your leg? What a bunch of [crying]. Getting kicked in the leg and admitting that hurts is like admitting you're scared in the dark. It may be true, but if you say it, you're a real wimp."

On Georges St-Pierre: "'GSP' had better pray to heaven above that 'Shogun' accepts my challenge because one of those two is getting beat up,"

'If GSP said he wanted to fight me, the first thing I would say is the same thing I say every time I hear GSP talk: 'Dang it that guy sounds like a French-Canadian Minnie Mouse. That's the first thing I'd say. Then I'd say, 'Hey, GSP, let me ask you a serious question – do you have a designated driver? Do you have someone to get you home safely? Because clearly you are intoxicated.

"'GSP, do you have a hankering for pain? GSP, did you lose a bet with God? GSP, bring your $3,000 suit, bring your $3 date and get the three-cent tan knocked off your socialist back.' If you see GSP, give him that message for me."

On Brock Lesnar: "If Brock Lesnar was here right now, I'd take my boot off and throw it at him, and he'd better polish it up before he brings it back to me. Talking about he's the baddest guy in the UFC? Brock, quit eating so many raw eggs and doing push-ups because it's affecting your realm of reality. Are you kidding me? I'd slap you in your face, and you wouldn't do anything.

"'I'm Brock Lesnar. I've got this $5 haircut and a knife tattooed on my chest.' I'll shove it up your face if you get in Chael Sonnen's way."

He also had a poem written especially for Anderson Silva:

"Anderson, who you gonna send?"

Anderson, think it through.
There's still a few months before they lock the cage door behind me and you.
Last time, they raised your hand, but it was plain to see
I took a lot more about of you than you took out of me.
I broke the mirror, and I blew away the smoke.
It was me who tapped, but it was you who broke.

Anfields5thKing wrote:Never seen Shogun try a submission off his back to be fair...

Silva's a better striker than Shogun and Sonnen did ok in the stand-up. Silva was injured in fairness but Sonnen can handle himself.

Never seen Shogun try a submission off his back to be fair, his top game is strong but not his bottom game. And Sonnen is much better at controlling people than anyone Shogun has ever faced.

If Sonnen handled the weight gain, i'd back him to beat Shogun. I think Evans is going to beat Shogun so it won't matter much.

ChelseaQuinsfan wrote:

Silva's a better striker than Shogun and Sonnen did ok in the stand-up. Silva was injured in fairness but Sonnen can handle himself.

Never seen Shogun try a submission off his back to be fair, his top game is strong but not his bottom game. And Sonnen is much better at controlling people than anyone Shogun has ever faced.

If Sonnen handled the weight gain, i'd back him to beat Shogun. I think Evans is going to beat Shogun so it won't matter much.

Silva is a slightly better striker but he always leaves his hands down because of his arrogance. Normally he doesn't need to keep them up because of his head movement but that was non-existent in the Sonnen fight so he landed a few good shots. Sonnen won't get those shots against Shogun.

Shogun as well has destroyed much better strikers than anyone Silva or Sonnen have ever faced.

Shogun is one of the best in terms of escaping from the bottom, he easily got out of Machida controlling him. I know Machida isn't the wrestler Sonnen is but he still is a BB and an excellent all round grappler. No problems for SHogun though.

Shogun has beaten better wrestlers than Sonnen and better grapplers. At times he out grappled Lil Nog and he easily beat Arona. He has beaten destroyed much better strikers than Sonnen as well.

I give Evans a decent chance but he won't be able to Wall N Stall and LnP his way to victory, and Evans always leaves his chin open. Rampage and Silva took advantage of that but they couldn't finish. Shogun will.

If you can name for me the better wrestlers than Sonnen that Shogun has beaten i'd be hugely interested. Other than Randleman he's never faced anyone of Sonnen's level, and Randleman wasn't nearly as good a fighter as Shogun. And probably not as good a wrestler either.

Getting out from under Machida, a stand-up fighter who can fight on the ground, and Sonnen who's the best wrestler in all of MMA right now, are two completely different things.

What has Shogun beaten strikers got to do with anything??

"Sonnen won't get those shots against Shogun". Really?? Shogun is not at all hard to hit. He's got a great chin but he's not hard to hit.

sunthunder wrote:Arona is the ultimate in terms of control. If you can have 13 ADCC fights against guys like Einemo, Saulo Ribeiro and JJ Machado and never give away a point, that shows there is possibly no better pure control fighter in the history of ADCC. Sonnen would get embarrassed in ADCC.

He manhandled Monson, Kerr, Tito, Fedor and Henderson.

The best wrestlers Sonnen has faced are Okami, Marquardt, Miller and Prangley.

The_Axe_Emperor wrote:

sunthunder wrote:Arona is the ultimate in terms of control. If you can have 13 ADCC fights against guys like Einemo, Saulo Ribeiro and JJ Machado and never give away a point, that shows there is possibly no better pure control fighter in the history of ADCC. Sonnen would get embarrassed in ADCC.

He manhandled Monson, Kerr, Tito, Fedor and Henderson.

The best wrestlers Sonnen has faced are Okami, Marquardt, Miller and Prangley.

He didn't manhandle them at all.




Hardly manhandled them.

sunthunder wrote:Arona is the ultimate in terms of control. If you can have 13 ADCC fights against guys like Einemo, Saulo Ribeiro and JJ Machado and never give away a point, that shows there is possibly no better pure control fighter in the history of ADCC. Sonnen would get embarrassed in ADCC.

He manhandled Monson, Kerr, Tito, Fedor and Henderson.

The best wrestlers Sonnen has faced are Okami, Marquardt, Miller and Prangley.

sunthunder wrote:He was able to get very clean takedowns against all. He mauled Henderson for example, clean double legged Fedor multiple times.

Anfields5thKing wrote:

sunthunder wrote:He was able to get very clean takedowns against all. He mauled Henderson for example, clean double legged Fedor multiple times.

That's not manhandling! What Rampage did to Arona, that was manhandling. What Lesnar did to Herring. That's manhandling.

He lost a grappling battle with Fedor.

"he mauled Henderson" to a split decision?????

I think you need to get some sleep.