For MMA bloggers, who may or may not have spent the entire night huddled in the attic with a bucket of KFC and a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon (our corporate overlords have directed the staff to include more ‘hipster friendly’ references…in reality it was a 40 of bathtub gin), Chael Sonnen is a godsend. Meaning that as we noted just yesterday, the middleweight consistently provides blog worthy quotes; something that comes in handy when some random, anonymous blogger, can hardly navigate sipping coffee, much less surf the net for hours in search of content…
The latest ‘Sonnen’ which will likely alarm or entertain many die-hard fans across the MMA world, comes courtesy an interview Chael did this past weekend with Fight Magazine, where the bruising wrestler tackled a variety of issues, including humbleness (insert obvious joke here…), Vegas, and of course, his upcoming August 7th bout with middleweight champ Anderson Silva. After declaring that once he’s the champ he’ll leave the UFC, “call Dana White a bunch of names”, only to eventually return after he realizes “there’s nowhere else to go” (anyone’s ears burning?), Sonnen offered this:
“I would love to go 205. 185 pounds is the toughest division in the business. So if you’re going to go after the belt, go after the tough one. But I’d love to get a night off and beat up some of those… for god sake, 205 had a karate guy that was their champion. I mean that weight class is a joke.”
Wow; Machida and Karate Kid fans, you digging this?
