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 wish to see a bout between a member of their respective teaching staffs.
“Right here’s the deal: We aren’t preventing,” Cormier mentioned in the course of the TUF 33 media day. “I advised 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 in all probability turned them down. We’re good. I simply haven’t any need to combat anybody.
“Chael and I did provide you with an thought thought, and I don’t know for those who guys can be into this… so Chael and I are speaking, and we’re going, I’ve Michael Chiesa on my teaching workers, Chael has Colby Covington on his teaching workers. Why don’t they only combat and Chael and I coach them? That’s about as shut as we might each get to getting again into the octagon.”
Sonnen and Cormier will coach a crop of flyweight and welterweight rivals. 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 consider they might help set the stage for a foremost 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 consider no one’s suggesting that,” Sonnen mentioned. “That’s the plain combat. I don’t suppose Colby and Chiesa are going to get by way 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.”
