{"id":90864,"date":"2014-03-24T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=90864"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:56:15","slug":"sonnen-explains-how-easy-it-is-to-manipulate-wanderlei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/sonnen-explains-how-easy-it-is-to-manipulate-wanderlei\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnen Explains How Easy It Is To Manipulate Wanderlei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/chael-sonnen-wants-anderson-silva-as-assistant-coach-for-upcoming-tuf-brazil-season\/sonnen-medium-rarepng\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71930\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71930\" title=\"sonnen medium rarePNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sonnen-medium-rarePNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sonnen-medium-rarePNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sonnen-medium-rarePNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sonnen-medium-rarePNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He is so stupid, I&#8217;m ashamed of him. He is a checkers player. In checkers you play one move at a time. If you are a chess player, you have to guess what I&#8217;m going to do and plan your next move, you have to be three or four moves ahead. He is so stupid, and I&#8217;m not trying to offend him, stupid is a word for a real thing. He comes and say: &#8216;the show stops if you don&#8217;t apologize for what you said about Brazil&#8217;. He did what a real checkers player would do. He would never imagine that I would refuse to apologize. When I refused, all what he could do was give up. He put himself in check, I didn&#8217;t do that. The show stopped and was almost over. They had to call Dana White and the producers. I begged him to come back and he didn&#8217;t. So he called for a cab and the cab came. One producer had to stop him in the cab and make him come back.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The producers told me that maybe I should apologize. I said: &#8220;No, I can&#8217;t. It&#8217;s not an ego thing, I don&#8217;t blame myself for any of that. I can&#8217;t apologize because they will be just meaningless words. I&#8217;m happy because I did that. I thought it was fun and I could do it all again today.&#8221; Wanderlei asked me why I couldn&#8217;t apologize and I said it worked, I wanted to fight against Anderson Silva, I got the fight and I liked saying what I said. It was fun. I could do it again today. Wanderlei was so angry, he looked like a cartoon character with smoke coming from his ears.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with the <a href=\"http:\/\/globoesporte.globo.com\/lutas\/tuf-brasil\/noticia\/2014\/03\/sonnen-conta-bastidores-de-ultimato-de-wand-ele-e-um-jogador-de-damas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazilian Media<\/a>, UFC middleweight fighter, Chael Sonnen, discussed one of his many episodes with Wanderlei Silva.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s going to happen when <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-confirms-sonnen-vs-silva-official-for-may-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these two finally step into the cage for a fight<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He is so stupid, I&#8217;m ashamed of him. He is a checkers player. In checkers you play one move at a time. If you are a chess player, you have to guess what I&#8217;m going to do and plan your next move, you have to be three or four moves ahead. 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