What’s Chael-speak without too much coffee? Believe it or not, Chael Sonnen is “uncharacteristically” deferential in this interview.
Anyway, his upcoming opponent Brian Stann himself digresses regarding what many think to be the true Sonnen: the quintessential trash-talker who’ll grab every opportunity to diss another fighter and promote himself.
According to Stann,“In typical fashion, most people only remember the fights for which Chael was outspoken. They don’t remember the fights like against Dan Miller, Nate Marquardt and Yushin Okami, for which he was very respectful. Everyone tends to remember your last fight, and obviously prior to his title fight against Anderson Silva, Chael was outspoken, so perhaps people expected him to continue in this vein against me. I never expected him to talk smack on me, unless I had done something to upset him of which I wasn’t aware.”
Or maybe it’s because Stann ain’t Silva.
Anyway, again, let the man himself do the talking, and here are Sonnen’s “relatively” kind words on his colleagues. (Yes, Silva included.)