CHICAGO – Give Chael Sonnen a mic – as reporters recently did at UFC on FOX 2 open workouts – and you get a dizzying and boastful monologue from one of MMA’s biggest talkers.
There are outrageous claims, numerous insults and excessive self-congratulatory proclamations.
Listen long enough, though, and you get some honest and sincere thoughts – though even they sometimes are accompanied by shtick.