{"id":66869,"date":"2013-08-20T13:40:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T20:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=66869"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:52:59","slug":"chael-sonnen-i-would-never-manufacture-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/chael-sonnen-i-would-never-manufacture-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen: &#8216;I would never manufacture conflict&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chael-sonnen.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56339\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chael-sonnen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chael-sonnen.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chael-sonnen-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chael-sonnen-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chael Sonnen (27-13-1 MMA, 6-6 UFC) made headlines this past weekend by submitting former UFC light heavyweight champion Mauricio &#8216;Shogun&#8217; Rua in the first-round of their main event fight in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>After earning the submission victory over Rua, Sonnen decided to &#8216;call out&#8217; longtime PRIDE middleweight champion Wanderlei Silva (35-12-1, 1 NC MMA, 5-7 UFC).<\/p>\n<p>The beef between &#8220;The Axe Murderer&#8221; and &#8220;The American Gangster&#8221; has been well documented, and is one that Chael insists is not manufactured (via Sherdog.com):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I would never manufacture conflict. That&#8217;s a very important statement. When I talk about big brothering guys, that&#8217;s probably lesson number one: Do not hype a fight. If you have an issue, if you have a reason and it&#8217;s sincere, feel free to speak about it. Do not make it up and don&#8217;t just cut something for entertainment. Post-fight&#8217;s a little bit different because then you&#8217;re not selling anything. If you&#8217;re just talking to a crowd, and tickets and pay-per-views aren&#8217;t on the line, that&#8217;s totally different. &#8230; I don&#8217;t like anything that&#8217;s manufactured. If it&#8217;s not real, I&#8217;m not buying it&#8230; I really just have one rule, and that is, if you don&#8217;t mean it, don&#8217;t say it. There is an entertainment aspect for that, but that&#8217;s not what we do here and I don&#8217;t want to sell anybody anything that isn&#8217;t real. I&#8217;ve bought it. I bought Mike Tyson versus Lennox Lewis and listened to Tyson apologize afterwards, say he didn&#8217;t mean it. I go, \u2018Well, then give me my money back. You&#8217;ve got to return my money. That was a lie. I bought this on a lie.&#8217; I watched Josh Koscheck and [Georges] St. Pierre, and Josh Koscheck grabbed the mic and said [he] didn&#8217;t mean it. Josh, you&#8217;re a liar then. There&#8217;s 11,000 fans that bought a ticket because they thought that they were going to see a dispute settled. &#8230; It bothers me. It&#8217;s insincere. I won&#8217;t participate in it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would explain why Sonnen was\u00a0so reserved in his pre-fight hype for fan favorite Brian Stann, or for his lack of verbal warfare against Rua leading up to their &#8220;Beantown&#8221; bout.<\/p>\n<p>I guess he was saving his material for someone he truly dislikes, like &#8220;The Axe Murderer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chael Sonnen (27-13-1 MMA, 6-6 UFC) made headlines this past weekend by submitting former UFC light heavyweight champion Mauricio &#8216;Shogun&#8217; Rua in the first-round of their main event fight in Boston. After earning the submission victory over Rua, Sonnen decided to &#8216;call out&#8217; longtime PRIDE middleweight champion Wanderlei Silva (35-12-1, 1 NC MMA, 5-7 UFC). 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