{"id":394828,"date":"2021-09-19T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=394828"},"modified":"2021-09-19T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T15:04:19","slug":"chael-sonnen-reacts-to-recent-conor-mcgregor-vs-machine-gun-kelly-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chael-sonnen-reacts-to-recent-conor-mcgregor-vs-machine-gun-kelly-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen reacts to recent Conor McGregor vs. Machine Gun Kelly incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC fighter Chael Sonnen reacted to the recent Conor McGregor vs. Machine Gun Kelly incident at the MTV VMAs last week in New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/conor-mcgregor-reacts-to-skirmish-with-machine-gun-kelly-i-certainly-dont-fight-little-vanilla-ice-white-rappers\/\">McGregor and MGK got into a highly publicized altercation on the red carpet last week<\/a>. Following that incident, UFC analyst Daniel Cormier suggested that McGregor&#8217;s gimmick has overtaken who is he as a person. It was an interesting comment from DC, but Sonnen isn&#8217;t totally sure he agrees with it. As far as Sonnen is concerned, you have to live the gimmick, which is what McGregor does. But where Sonnen agrees with DC is that there needs to be a clearer separation between who McGregor the fighter is and who McGregor the person is.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daniel Comier said Conor McGregor Marked Out...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-q7MLxbwk94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow you stay in character is you take it from the ring, to your real life. If Hulk Hogan was to book a reservation for a restaurant, he doesn\u2019t call up and say \u2018hey table for two, Terry Bollea,\u2019 he will book it under Hulk Hogan. He will live the gimmick. If you live the gimmick and the character at all times, you can then do what Daniel is talking about, which is mark out for your own gimmick. I\u2019m just not sure where within Conor\u2019s schtick, he had to be a prick,&#8221; Sonnen said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2021\/9\/19\/22681947\/sonnen-conor-mcgregor-had-a-great-gimmick-but-not-sure-where-he-had-to-be-a-prick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BloodyElbow<\/a>). \u201cHe was aggressive towards opponents. He would show up late to his own press conference. He would make people clamor to come watch him when he was about to warm up \u2014 when he had a match for sale on pay-per-view. These were the brilliant things, these were the entertainer. But I can\u2019t dismiss what Daniel Cormier said, where it does appear that there needs to be a more distinct separation between the person and the character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with what Chael Sonnen said about Conor McGregor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC fighter Chael Sonnen reacted to the recent Conor McGregor vs. Machine Gun Kelly incident at the MTV VMAs last week in New York. McGregor and MGK got into a highly publicized altercation on the red carpet last week. Following that incident, UFC analyst Daniel Cormier suggested that McGregor&#8217;s gimmick has overtaken who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":344083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10104,10089,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chael Sonnen reacts to recent Conor McGregor vs. Machine Gun Kelly incident | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC fighter Chael Sonnen reacted to the recent Conor McGregor vs. Machine Gun Kelly incident at the MTV VMAs last week in New York.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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