Chael Sonnen had an interesting showing at ADCC – not only was he victorious in a superfight against Chekmat head Leo Vieira but he also entered the absolute division!
Still he’s more than eager to repeat the superfight experience :
Werdum is a 2 time ADCC champ – in 2007 & 2009!
And as far as Sonnen goes it’s interesting that a match up between him and Craig Jones in the Absolute bracket facilitated Jones’ involvement in absolute to start with. Craig recently revealed
Craig Jones On Leandro Lo Match: I Heard His Leg Completely Tear In Half
Yeah, so I mean I finished my bronze medal match with Xande and I was hanging out with my coach Lachie and he was like, “Oh, we should get a beer,” so like I go to the bar, I start drinking a beer with Lachie and there’s a guy … there’s an older guy there with like a thick American … a thick New Jersey sort of accent and he was telling me how he’s Gordon’s dad and stuff, so actually I drunk a beer with him for about, I don’t know, 10, 15 minutes. I don’t know.
Yeah, he’s actually an entertaining guy then I started walking away … I’d actually … before I had the beer, I had gone home, showered, got changed. I finished the beer I was walking around and then Mo … one of the organizers of the event, comes at me and he’s like, “You should do the absolute, you should do the absolute,” and I’m like “Nah man, it’s been rough, it’s been a rough weekend. I’m pretty tired”. Like, with the jet lag and stuff I was waking up at 2 AM those days should have pretty flown in earlier but Moe comes at me and he’s like “I will give you Chael Sonnen for this round if you do the absolute,” and I was like, “Okay. It’s going down. Put me in.
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