{"id":386718,"date":"2021-05-31T20:40:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=386718"},"modified":"2021-05-31T20:40:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T03:40:14","slug":"ali-abdelaziz-claims-chael-sonnen-is-facing-jake-paul-next-not-tyron-woodley-winner-is-going-to-take-on-mike-tyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ali-abdelaziz-claims-chael-sonnen-is-facing-jake-paul-next-not-tyron-woodley-winner-is-going-to-take-on-mike-tyson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Abdelaziz claims Chael Sonnen is facing Jake Paul next, not Tyron Woodley, &#8216;Winner is going to take on Mike Tyson&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anything Jake Paul-related practically guarantees shenanigans. After his next fight announcement today, Ali Abdelaziz provided even more.<\/p>\n<p>The news came out Monday that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jake-paul-set-to-box-former-ufc-welterweight-champion-tyron-woodley\/\">Paul will have his fourth career pro boxing match<\/a>. To the surprise of no one, it was yet again a non-boxer revealed as his would-be opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Expected to face the 3-0 Paul is a former UFC welterweight champion, Tyron Woodley. The fight&#8217;s date is currently unknown but a Friday announcement and faceoff is reportedly taking place in Miami on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, prominent MMA manager, Ali Abdelaziz, has now come out to claim that all the &#8220;rumors&#8221; aren&#8217;t true at all. Instead, Paul will face former UFC middleweight and light heavyweight title challenger, Chael Sonnen, according to the Dominance MMA head.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Abdelaziz also threw in the slight detail that the match would set the winner up to face none other than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Tyson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Tyson<\/a>. Sonnen in typical fashion offered up a quick response.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ll beat Iron Mike, Jake Paul and T wood all in the same night with any rules they want. I\u2019m in Ali. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M01OQLBHnJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/M01OQLBHnJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chael Sonnen (@ChaelSonnen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChaelSonnen\/status\/1399556325441347587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rumors are not true in fact Jake Paul\u2019s next fight is going to be against @ChaelSonnen and the winner is going to take on iron Mike Tyson,&#8221; Abdelaziz tweeted. &#8220;Nobody has better knowledge of these negotiations than me and I\u2019m telling you everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ll beat Iron Mike, Jake Paul and T wood all in the same night with any rules they want,&#8221; Sonnen quote tweeted. &#8220;I\u2019m in Ali.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The now-44-year-old Sonnen (31-17-1) retired in June 2019 after back-to-back TKO losses to the likes of Fedor Emelianenko and Lyoto Machida. &#8220;The American Gangster&#8221; dabbled in the grappling world toward the end of his fight career but has held to his word as a non-combatant since retiring.<\/p>\n<p>As for Tyson, 54, he had his first boxing match of any kind in 15 years when squaring off with Roy Jones Jr. for a November 2020 exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anything Jake Paul-related practically guarantees shenanigans. 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