{"id":144867,"date":"2015-05-20T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T00:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=144867"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:18:04","slug":"chael-sonnen-eyeing-ufc-return-after-suspension-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/chael-sonnen-eyeing-ufc-return-after-suspension-expires\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen Eyeing UFC Return After Suspension Expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chael-Sonnen.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chael-Sonnen.png\" alt=\"Chael Sonnen\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chael-Sonnen.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chael-Sonnen-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chael-Sonnen-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chael-Sonnen-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chael Sonnen got a little taste of competition earlier this month at &#8220;Metamoris 6&#8221; and apparently wants to end up back in the octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Sonnen&#8217;s departure from the Ultimate Fighting Championship was messy, to say the least. He was set to fight Wanderlei Silva in the culmination of their season of &#8220;The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil&#8221;, but he was forced to pull out of the bout due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p>It was later revealed that Sonnen had failed a random pre-fight drug test and was positive for HGH as well as EPO, both performance enhancing drugs. Sonnen announced his retirement on a June 2014 edition of &#8220;UFC Tonight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On tonight&#8217;s edition of &#8220;UFC Tonight&#8221;, it was mentioned that Sonnen&#8217;s lawyers will be working on a return to the octagon once his suspension expires.<\/p>\n<p>Sonnen recently competed at &#8220;Metamoris 6&#8221; against Renato &#8220;Babalu&#8221; Sobral and went the full twenty minutes with the BJJ ace.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any interest in seeing Sonnen back in the cage? 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