Chael: "Lance Armstrong gave himself cancer"

[Liquidrob]

""When you screw up, you have to own it. That stuff really gets under my skin. Take Lance Armstrong. Lance Armstrong did a number of things and he gave himself cancer. He cheated, he did drugs, and he gave himself cancer. Well, instead of saying ‘Hey listen, I cheated and gave myself cancer, don't be like me.' He actually made himself the victim and then went out and profited something like $15 million dollars from this ‘Hey, poor me, let's find a cure for cancer' campaign instead of just coming clean and saying, ‘Look, here's what I did, I screwed myself up, and I hope people learn from my mistakes.' You just watch these guys and can't help but think, God, what a fraud. You got the whole Michael Phelps being a pothead thing too. I'm just glad I'm in the business I'm in so I can get them in the cage and kick the crap out of them.""

Source: http://www.mmamania.com/2010/8/3/1603328/ufc-quick-quote-chael-sonnen-says

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Chael is really going out of his way to promote this fight...

 

[EmpireWF]

Not everyone can be as special as Chael Sonnen.

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

I hope Anderson literally kills him. This shit isnt even entertaining to me anymore. Saying a dude gave himself cancer? Stay classy, Chael.

 

[Prodigal Son]

Real fucking manly, call out a swimmer and a bicyclist. While he's at it, he should probably take some shots at competitive gamers, and gymnasts.

 

[EmpireWF]

Saying a dude gave himself cancer? Stay classy, Chael.

He's saying Armstrong used all kinds of drugs that in turn gave him cancer.

Obviously, he's talking out of his ass, but at least when he talks about Silva/BigNog/Soares/Franklin/etc., it's gold.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Real fucking manly, call out a swimmer and a bicyclist. While he's at it, he should probably take some shots at competitive gamers, and gymnasts.

Kornstar, please

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

He's saying Armstrong used all kinds of drugs that in turn gave him cancer.

Obviously, he's talking out of his ass, but at least when he talks about Silva/BigNog/Soares/Franklin/etc., it's gold.

I understand the premise of his statement but hes gone from moderate humour to complete and utter douchieness. Im not sure where all Chael's confidence came from either, im sure it will be knocked down after Saturday tho.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I mean, in all fairness, fuck Lance Armstrong. The guy cheated for years.

 

[wingsfan77]

I'm not a HUGE MMA guy but I recognize most fighters when I hear the name, I'd never even heard of this guy until he started running his mouth at Anderson....I hope he Spider knocks his head off

 

[clovett]

He's hilarious.

 

[Rush]

What a fucking wackjob. Also I might even take Phelps over him, his reach is like Jon Jones.

 

[j.hen]

Whats wrong with Phelps doing pot? How else is he supposed to eat all that food

 

[Liquidrob]

Chael desreves a raise or a bonus

He was just on Rome, he denied saying this, Rome played the tape of the interview, its Chael, it was just a clip of a 45 minute interview Chael did

Rome says 'Chael, that sounds a lot like you, is is you?'

Chael says 'Sounds like a guy with an hispanic accent, thats not me'

Rome has been talking about Chael for like a hour and a half, Sonnen just sold a crap load of PPV's, everyone is calling in and wants to see Chael lose

 

[EmpireWF]

Sonnen w/ an hispanic accent = lulz

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Chael needs to take Silva's cut of the money, too.

Dude is just going off trying to promote this fight.

 

[bucky]

At first I thought it was the French bitching about Armstrong. Just to find out it's some MMA guy. Shame. It's much more fun saying shit about the french.

 

[Liquidrob]

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[Warner2BruceTD]

-- No big news from the UFC press conference this afternoon except it was among the more amusing in UFC history. There was a great moment when he told Ariel Helwani that in the last election he ran in he got 99.6% of the vote, and Ariel said, "Wasn't that the election where you ran unopposed?" On the Jim Rome Show today he was asked about his controversial comments about Lance Armstrong (see yesterday's update) and he claimed he never said any of that and had spoke to Lance denying everything. So Rome said, well, I've got an audio recording of it right here. He played it and then Chael calmly said, "Jim, that doesn't sound anything like me." He said the callers should call in and tell them if that sounded like him. "Sounds like a guy with a Hispanic accent to me." From talking to people there who have spoken to him the feeling is that he is 100% working all of this with the pro-wrestling schtick, but that it has really gotten under Anderson's skin and Anderson is going to try to kill him.



HE'S GOING TO TRY TO KILL HIM

Sonnen has earned my $60, I wasn't going to buy this show, but now I must see it.

 

[calgaryballer]

Either way, someone I don't like is going to get bitch slapped. And that is worth my cover fee at hte pub