{"id":248172,"date":"2017-08-31T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=248172"},"modified":"2017-08-31T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:16:12","slug":"chael-sonnen-shares-story-time-conor-mcgregor-got-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chael-sonnen-shares-story-time-conor-mcgregor-got-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen shares story about a time a fired-up Conor McGregor got in his face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the latest edition of his podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podcastone.com\/chaelsonnen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>You&#8217;re Welcome<\/em><\/a>, three-time UFC title challenger and current Bellator MMA star Chael Sonnen shared a pretty intense story about UFC lightweight champ and combat sports superstar <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a>. Apparently, he and the Irish champ nearly came to blows a few years back.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sonnen, the trouble began when he asked McGregor the name of his fiancee, Dee Devlin, and McGregor misheard what he said. See a transcription of Sonnen&#8217;s account below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Did I tell you about the time I interviewed him at ESPN?&#8221; Sonnen said while discussing McGregor with guest Paige VanZant. &#8220;They set up an Octagon, on campus, outdoors. We&#8217;re going to do this little interview. We&#8217;re going to sit down with some chairs, there&#8217;s gonna be a quick mic, ok, real simple. So, I&#8217;ve met [McGregor&#8217;s] fiancee Dee. She&#8217;s wonderful. I&#8217;ve met her a number of times, but it was really quick. I know her, I gave her a hug hello, but &#8216;Dee..&#8217; I didn&#8217;t have the name. I didn&#8217;t know if [Conor] was saying &#8216;Dee&#8217;, was he saying &#8216;Bee,&#8217; I misplaced [the name]. Alright, so she&#8217;s there. It&#8217;s like the third time I&#8217;ve met her, so I can&#8217;t really go up and clarify names. So [McGregor] and I are in the Octagon, and he&#8217;s probably twelve feet away from me, and I go &#8216;hey Conor,&#8217; and he goes &#8216;yeah,&#8217; and I go &#8216;hey, your fiancee,&#8217; and he goes &#8216;yeah,&#8217; and I said &#8216;what&#8217;s her name?&#8217; And he goes &#8216;WOOT?&#8217; So I say the exact same thing. I say &#8216;your fiancee, what&#8217;s her name?&#8217; And he beelines right for my face, and we are now about an inch apart, and he&#8217;s looking right in my eye and he goes &#8216;WOOT?&#8217; And I say the same thing, one more time. I say &#8216;your fiancee, what&#8217;s her name?&#8217; And he goes, &#8216;Dee,&#8217; and he turns and walks away.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sonnen continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;All I could think about is &#8216;what did you think I was saying? What is it you thought that I was saying about her that led you too&#8230; what almost happened here?&#8217; He answers the questions goes &#8216;Dee,&#8217; and just turns and takes three steps in the opposite direction and I&#8217;m just thinking &#8216;what just almost happened, and what the hell did you think?&#8217; What rhymes with &#8216;hey, what&#8217;s her name?&#8217; I don&#8217;t know the answer.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you make of this intense Conor McGregor story from Chael Sonnen?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/31\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the latest edition of his podcast, You&#8217;re Welcome, three-time UFC title challenger and current Bellator MMA star Chael Sonnen shared a pretty intense story about UFC lightweight champ and combat sports superstar Conor McGregor. 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