Chael Sonnen just can’t let go of the outcome of Bellator 170 so he keep rehashing it and insisting on his version. Now legendary MMA ref Big John McCarthy is under fire after tweeting the following:

Chael must have been listening to a different frequency then the rest of the world that night. Tito didn’t say anything #AskBJM https://t.co/mlIf7nbOpO

— Big John McCarthy (@JohnMcCarthyMMA) February 24, 2017

Sonnen however insists McCarthy overstepped his bounds and basically claims he wasn’t imagining thing.s

“I love John, and I respect John, but I don’t know what that would help.”

“One, I don’t know if he felt he needed to defend himself. And, two, if there’s a major fire burning for a rematch with me and Tito, why somebody who has nothing to do with the business would come in and put any kind of water on that, or who that is to help, is beyond me,” he added during  the “Phonebooth Fighting”

Still he gives credit where credit is due and admits that the Rear naked choke Tito Ortiz set in was no joke –

“I laid an egg – Tito won,” he said.

Still he opted to double down on his claims. The D’arce choke was there and there was no choreography involved:

“It’s like, well, you’re close,” Sonnen said. “It was, I heard him tap, and I let go.”

In the mean time Ortiz demanded an apology from Sonnen for instigating the whole discussion that even prompted Big John McCarthy to react an share his views.

Sonnen wasn’t too happy about that refereeing even though he claims he has all the respect in the world for John:

“We’ve seen some people that we really like in this industry that are no longer in this industry, from the great Burt Watson – and Stitch Duran is still in the business, but not in the same spot he was – up to the executive director in (Nevada) state, Keith Kizer,” Sonnen said. “One thing that does happen with some gentlemen is that they want to be the star of the show, and that can get you in real trouble when you’re talking about (fights), because this is a television show as much as it is a sport. And when the executive producers are looking to push very specific people in their very expensive time slots and other guys are trying to come in and get any level of notoriety, it’s going to piss people off fast.”