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Former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans is slated to fight Chael Sonnen this Saturday at UFC 167. Evans spoke on The MMA Hour to host Ariel Helwani about the distractions Sonnen is facing going into the bout, mainly his consistent presence on Fox Sports 1’s UFC tonight.<\/p>\n

“I definitely don\u2019t think he\u2019s really focused on where he needs to be, and that\u2019s coming from my point of view, My point of view is I couldn\u2019t do it just for the mindset of, when you\u2019re doing those shows — and he\u2019s a natural, he\u2019s really good at it — there\u2019s a lot of prep work that goes into it. You got to know the names of the fighters, you\u2019ve got to know a lot of things about the fighters just to be able to have a casual conversation and know what they heck you\u2019re talking about when it\u2019s time to. So, for him to still be doing it, it doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019s putting that kind of focus that you need to be training at a high level. Maybe something to stay in shape and casually train, but to train for a fight?”<\/em><\/p>\n

For those who don’t know Sonnen got married before his last bout in August, and also moved his training camp from Team Quest in Portland Oregon to Reign MMA in Los Angeles, a city with plenty of distractions of its own.<\/p>\n

“It could definitely work against him. I don\u2019t want to right now sit here and write the script of what his mindset is going to be like, because you really never know about anybody\u2019s mindset and what goes into having them compete. I can say for me, myself, it would definitely take a little bit off. Because it\u2019s hard. He will have to be one seriously talented individual to go in there and juggle all those things on his plate and still come out and really fight the way he wants to fight. We\u2019ll see on Saturday. But if that were me, that would be a really tall order, and it seems like he\u2019s stacking the order against himself.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sonnen is coming off a first round submission win over Shogun Rua in August. Whereas Evans is coming off a decision win over Dan Henderson in June. The two are set to face off this Saturday at UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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