{"id":288335,"date":"2018-10-16T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=288335"},"modified":"2018-10-16T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T20:20:01","slug":"chael-sonnen-opens-up-on-loss-to-fedor-emelianenko-everything-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/chael-sonnen-opens-up-on-loss-to-fedor-emelianenko-everything-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen opens up on loss to Fedor Emelianenko: &#8216;Everything hurts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday night, in the main event of Bellator 208, former UFC middleweight and light heavyweight title challenger Chael Sonnen stepped into the cage with heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko. Although Sonnen had some success with his wrestling in this fight, he was ultimately stopped in the waning moments of the first round, as Emelianenko unleashed a veritable meteor shower of ground-and-pound upon his head.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on The MMA Hour on Monday, Chael Sonnen opened up on this loss. He says that, after being dropped early and pounded out on the mat, he&#8217;s in significant physical pain. No surprise there.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chael Sonnen On Fedor Loss: \u2018Physically, Everything Hurts. Emotionally, I\u2019m Heartbroken\u2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSaplcfa8KI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"aJuFKf\">\u201cPhysically, everything hurts,&#8221; he said (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/10\/16\/17979742\/chael-sonnen-bellator-208-loss-physically-everything-hurts-emotionally-im-heartbroken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201c[Emelianenko] hit me with a missile about five-seconds in. That one still hurts a little bit. But other than that, I am doing well\u2026My teeth are okay. If I had one wish going into a fight, aside from serious injury, it\u2019s that I won\u2019t lose a tooth. I had that same wish since I started this when I was 19 years old. But, yes they are all intact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, physical pain isn&#8217;t the only thing Sonnen&#8217;s plate at the moment. He&#8217;s also doing his best to swallow a side dish of emotional anguish.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Rv1PQl\">\u201cEmotionally, I get heartbroken about these things,&#8221; he sad. &#8220;From a competitive standpoint, I have dedicated my whole life to this since I was nine years old and I would have started earlier if my dad would have let me. He wouldn\u2019t let me start until I was nine. It hurts. It hurts really bad that you don\u2019t get those moments back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrating his world-famous way with words, Chael Sonnen then explained that this sort of inner turmoil is simply par for the course in the life of a fighter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6R6Cht\">\u201cI\u2019ve had these feelings before,\u201d he said. \u201cI am convinced, in my interpretation, this is what it means to be a fighter. Somewhere over time that word became corrupted. It became about the punches and the kicks. But I\u2019ve always believed it\u2019s feeling like I\u2019m feeling right now and getting out of bed anyway and facing the media and getting back on it. So now I have to be a fighter. I prefer to be a winner, I prefer to be on top of the world and looking down on everybody else. But today I\u2019ve got to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Chael Sonnen? Who would you like to see him fight next?<\/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 10\/16\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday night, in the main event of Bellator 208, former UFC middleweight and light heavyweight title challenger Chael Sonnen stepped into the cage with heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko. 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