{"id":278616,"date":"2018-06-15T07:48:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=278616"},"modified":"2018-06-15T07:48:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:48:46","slug":"chael-sonnen-explains-why-he-appreciated-mike-jackson-vs-cm-punk-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cm-punk\/chael-sonnen-explains-why-he-appreciated-mike-jackson-vs-cm-punk-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen explains why he &#8220;appreciated&#8221; Mike Jackson vs. CM Punk fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bellator star Chael Sonnen watched Mike Jackson and CM Punk&#8217;s fight at UFC 225, and where many onlookers saw a clumsy tilt between two unskilled hopefuls, he claims to have seen something different.<\/p>\n<p>He gave his take on the fight on a recent episode of his Beyond The Fight podcast.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ln2wRN\">\u201cI appreciated that match,&#8221; Sonnen said (transcribed by Milan Ordo\u00f1ez for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2018\/6\/15\/17466640\/ufc-225-chael-sonnen-cm-punk-mike-jackson-heart-grit-need-remembered-not-skill-mma-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BloodyElbow<\/a>). &#8220;I think that\u00a0Mike Jackson\u00a0deserves some credit. Look, he\u2019s not very good. People seem to be making that the focal point. I feel that they\u2019re just missing the story that two guys had a dream, two guys were given the opportunity, and two guys got matched up, and we do have to admit very well that that was the right skill vs. the right skill, the right experience vs. the right experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"MGDGLX\">\u201cI thought that\u00a0CM Punk\u00a0showed a lot of heart, I don\u2019t think you guys would disagree with me,&#8221; Sonnen continued. &#8220;As far as a ton of skill, he\u2019s only done it one time. Going into the fight, he\u2019s only done it one time, now he\u2019s only done it two times. What the hell do you want from the guy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chael Sonnen has a different opinion of the CM PUNK fight\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dgyCqWe-uIo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"PPdeIg\">\u201cYou had a guy go out there, dig deep and push for 15 minutes in a combat sport, hard to do \u2014 and I\u2019m putting a little bit of a bow on it, that is true. It was a lesser quality that you would see in many pay-per-view fights. That\u2019s true, but there was still something there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"2sGoyG\">\u201cWe tuned in for a reason, and any other expectations that we put on that, we put on that falsely. We got what we should have got. We got what we should have expected. And I think that the heart and the grit of both guys needs to be what\u2019s remembered, not the skill. They\u2019ve both only been in there a couple of times between them. Not even all the fingers on my right hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Chael Sonnen&#8217;s comments on UFC 225&#8217;s Mike Jackson vs. CM Punk fight?<\/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 6\/15\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellator star Chael Sonnen watched Mike Jackson and CM Punk&#8217;s fight at UFC 225, and where many onlookers saw a clumsy tilt between two unskilled hopefuls, he claims to have seen something different. 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