Chael Sonnen has issued a response to Conor McGregor’s recent incendiary tweet, wherein McGregor verbally criticized the former UFC title challenger regarding allegations of substance abuse.
McGregor was forced to withdraw from his planned UFC comeback against Michael Chandler on June 29 due to a toe injury. Sonnen believes that the Dublin native’s decision to withdraw was related to a period of drug rehabilitation.
In a recent tweet, McGregor lashed out at Sonnen for his comments regarding McGregor’s withdrawal from UFC 303.
In a recent episode of his Beyond The Fight podcast, Sonnen restated his belief that McGregor is hiding the fact that he’s in rehab.
“Conor McGregor sent a tweet out, and he told me to shut my pie-hole,” Sonnen said. “Now, what do you do with that? What do you do with that if you’re in my spot? Do you fire back at McGregor? Because one thing I would never do is kick a man when he’s down. I’d always man a hand up if he was down. Once he got back up and everything’s level, the rule’s off…I don’t know that [tapping to strikes] is accurate or not…the [toe injury] evidence he provides is a discolorization on the bottom part of a toe, believed to be his own. And I gotta word it that way: there’s a lot of BS pictures that go around out there…It’s a way of him resisting my belief that he’s in rehab, of which by the way, I think is a really great thing!
“I believe where he is and what he’s doing with his time is rehabilitating himself, which is awesome. He wants it to be known that he is not rehabilitating himself, he instead is repairing himself. Out of all the parts of his body that could be hurt, it’s specifically a pinkie toe? He just didn’t put out any evidence that it was his pinkie toe, and that is a surprise to me. So Conor refused my compliment, that he had the strength to seek help. You can listen to Conor’s account which makes him look a little b****.”
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