{"id":433232,"date":"2022-02-15T05:48:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=433232"},"modified":"2022-02-15T05:48:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:48:54","slug":"chael-sonnen-retracts-previous-comments-about-tai-tuivasa-that-statement-must-be-amended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chael-sonnen-retracts-previous-comments-about-tai-tuivasa-that-statement-must-be-amended\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen retracts previous comments about Tai Tuivasa: \u201cThat statement must be amended\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chael Sonnen has apologized to Tai Tuivasa for previous comments he made about the UFC heavyweight contender.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday night at UFC 271, Tai Tuivasa exploded into the top five of the UFC&#8217;s heavyweight division with an emphatic <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-271-results-tai-tuivasa-kos-derrick-lewis-video\/\">knockout win<\/a> over Derrick Lewis. The victory stunned a lot of fans and pundits alike but &#8220;Bam Bam&#8221; himself seemed pretty confident heading into the contest that he was going to do some damage.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned Sonnen, who has been known to make controversial comments in the past, once criticized Tuivasa by suggesting he wasn&#8217;t actually that good. Now, &#8220;The Bad Guy&#8221; has had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=va50v-hcrFY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retract those remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chael Sonnen said this about Tai Tuivasa\u2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/va50v-hcrFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat I meant by Tai Tuivasa doesn\u2019t have a belt is that he doesn\u2019t have a belt in taekwondo, karate, kung-fu, jiu-jitsu, he does not know what the hell he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s going to be a handful for anybody because he likes this line of work, because he\u2019s hard to get under if you want to grapple and he\u2019s gonna put these [his fists] on your head, and he can take a hell of a shot &#8211; but he\u2019s not very good. That statement must be amended. Tai Tuivasa, words I never thought I would speak, is now the number three ranked heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat I needed to see was Tai Tuivasa thrown down to the mat like a sack of potatoes, turn over, find an underhook and stand back up. That is what I needed to see. That is more skill than Tai Tuivasa has ever shown. If you think I\u2019m insulting him guys you\u2019re hearing me wrong &#8211; I am praising him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think we will see Tai Tuivasa challenge for the UFC heavyweight title before the end of 2022? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chael Sonnen has apologized to Tai Tuivasa for previous comments he made about the UFC heavyweight contender. Last Saturday night at UFC 271, Tai Tuivasa exploded into the top five of the UFC&#8217;s heavyweight division with an emphatic knockout win over Derrick Lewis. The victory stunned a lot of fans and pundits alike but &#8220;Bam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":389829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10104,39478,39610],"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 retracts previous comments about Tai Tuivasa: \u201cThat statement must be amended\u201d | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chael Sonnen has apologized to Tai Tuivasa for previous comments he made about the UFC heavyweight contender.\" \/>\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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