Sonnens at it again.....

Quit hating on the guy! Hes the only man in history to beat the living **** outta Anderson. Sonnens an absolute Legend

 

MetalMandible, you are in the wrong because you started being rude.

There's an old saying, don't complain about the weeds just concentrate on the flowers. Who would have thought Sonnen would have progressive and sensible views on women's MMA and boxing. talk about a diamond in the diarrhoea.

 

Sonnens great at marketing himself. He's playing the heel and MMA needs it.

 

No. He is not great at marketing himself.

This lie has been repeated by mark reporters who are too busy laughing at Sonnen's HILARIOUS quips to realize what he's doing is completely counterproductive.

Sonnen should not be a heel. He is trying to position himself as a challenger in a division where the champion is Anderson Silva. Silva is in the eyes of most fans and his UFC persona a heel - he's arrogant, aloof, cocky, weird, disrespectful, etc etc. If Sonnen was a clever a self-marketer as people claim he is then he would be positioning himself to be a BABYFACE...something that until recently (i.e. before the drugs bust) wouldn't have been too difficult as he's good looking, well spoken, American, has a legitimate sports background, etc.

Indeed that was exactly what Sonnen was doing in the early stages of the build-up to his fight against Silva. It was only when people started acting as if he was the inventor of trash talking that he started just coming up with whatever random, nonsensical **** popped into his had. And I'm sorry it is not a good idea for a fighter that you should be wanting fans to root for and get behind in his quest to defeat the hated, unbeatable champion to be consistently saying things that everyone knows are not only untrue but ludicrously so.

Again going back to the fight against Silva - in the early build his promos were focused on explaining to people why he could beat Silva, how his skillset matched up uniquely well against the champions. Again that's great - Sonnen was selling his strengths to convince people that he could win. But that message relies on Sonnen being credible, something that as the fight drew he near he became progressively less so as he consistently came out with random **** that everyone knew was untrue.

That's why the all important last-week build for UFC 117 didn't click. By almost any measurement Sonnen's marketing of UFC 117 was a flop. He did not convince the fans to cheer for him against a fighter coming off perhaps the most notorious performance in a championship fight in the sport's history. Judging from the crowd's astonishment when he successfully started putting some offense together he clearly failed to convince them in advance that he could win.

And most importantly he failed to convince an above average people to actually buy the ****ing pay per view. UFC 117 was purchased 600,000 times despite a stacked line up that include TUF10 winner Roy Nelson in a final eliminator, Clay Guida and Matt Hughes. A yeah before Silva was the co-main event of a show that did 900,000 buys, a number most credited to his fight against Forrest Griffin. He had also main evented UFC 97 that did 650,000 buys and UFC 112 that despite being an overseas show did 500,000 (a company record for a non-North American show). What's more Silva's next fight at UFC 126 against Vitor Belfort drew 725,000 buys!!!

So no matter what the Chael Sonnen apologists try to claim he has not, at any point, proven himself to be a draw. The facts speak for themselves.

 

Great post Will, agree totally

 

Aww, boohoo, sorry I hurt your feelings. Really, pull your thick head out of your fat ass and realize that you're about the only person left on this board still playing the "troll" card in regards to me because people realize that I make legitimate points now.

Was I rude? Yes, because I see no point in beating around the bush and sugarcoating a rebuttal to someone who has proven himself an irrational, nuthugging fool.

Sonnen is promoting himself and promoting his upcoming fights by making all you "respect and honor" geeks hate him. The more you hate him, the more of a **** he comes across to you, the more you want to see him get demolished and regardless of how much you dislike him you're going to pay his check when you tune in to the PPV to see him get crushed.

 

He is actually a former WCW power plant trainee.

 

No, he's a mouthy irrelevance who has a opinion that's way to high of himself, but just spouts the same old **** over & over again in a bid to stay relevant and his bravado is way higher than his actual ability and the people who watched this sport for years know it

Sound familiar MM?