Chael Sonnen and Daniel Cormier is not going to be preventing one another on the finish of season 33 of The Final Fighter, however each coaches want to see a bout between a member of their respective teaching staffs.
“Right here’s the deal: We aren’t preventing,” Cormier mentioned through the TUF 33 media day. “I instructed this to Dana [on Tuesday], I don’t need to combat anyone, as a result of he was making enjoyable of us. He goes, ‘Did GFL name you guys?’ I used to be like, ‘They didn’t even name me as a result of they know I don’t need to combat,’ and Chael most likely turned them down. We’re good. I simply haven’t any want to combat anybody.
“Chael and I did give you an concept thought, and I don’t know when you guys could be into this… so Chael and I are speaking, and we’re going, I’ve Michael Chiesa on my teaching employees, Chael has Colby Covington on his teaching employees. Why don’t they only combat and Chael and I coach them? That’s about as shut as we’d each get to getting again into the octagon.”
Sonnen and Cormier will coach a crop of flyweight and welterweight opponents. On the finish of the season, the 2 finalists from every division will face off with the winners receiving UFC contracts.
If the UFC does carry again an official TUF Finale occasion, the UFC Corridor of Famers imagine they can assist set the stage for a most important occasion between Covington and Chiesa — with the previous seeking to bounce again from back-to-back losses to Leon Edwards and Joaquin Buckley, whereas the previous is on a two-fight win streak.
“To again Daniel up, I can’t imagine no person’s suggesting that,” Sonnen mentioned. “That’s the apparent combat. I don’t assume Colby and Chiesa are going to get by means of this course of with out discovering each other.”
“Think about how a lot we will instigate them,” Cormier mentioned. “It will be superior. We may instigate these for 4 weeks.”
