Chael Sonnen appears on Jim Rome show, rejects "Jungle Karma", calls it primitive (w/ audio)

Sonnen on Rome

UFC number one contender Chael Sonnen appeared on Jim Rome's radio show today and pretty much had the same things to say in regards to Anderson Silva and his fight at UFC 117 on Saturday in Oakland.

In regards to why he dislikes Silva:

Three words: Earrings. Crooked hats and Pink T-shirts

Looks like 6 words. Chael also says that Ed Soares actually called Sonnen's management team and begged them to stop promoting the fight.

Chael also makes claims that Silva can speak "perfect English" but puts on a "Si habla espanol" act when prompted with questions.

When asked if Sonnen believed these things, Sonnen said "I believe them" and referenced the fake hype that permeates boxing invoking the Mike Tyson vs Lennox Lewis beef where Tyson went for eating Lennox's kids to hugging him at the end. Chael says he'll "never back off statements". That is ironic because Chael has both claimed and denied an infamous Twitter account that has made a lot of contentious statements.

Jim rome asks Sonnen if he made the statements about Lance Armstrong basically saying that he "gave himself cancer". Sonnen retorted that "[he] did not", that "Lance and [Sonnen] are teammates at Team Nike" and that "Lanced called [him]", spoke with him about it and cleared the air.  

 According to Sonnen:

I've never spoken about people without a middleweight contract. You will not see any footage of me saying anything about Lance Armstrong

Jim Rome then plays the audio from the infamous interview of a man clearly sounding like Chael Sonnen saying that Lance gave himself cancer by taking PED's and then profited from that by making himself into a victim. Jim Rome stated that "it sounds just like [Sonnen]"

Sonnen replies that "it sounded nothing like me", that it "sounded like a guy with a Hispanic accent" and attributes the clip to an impersonator like his "5 fake Myspaces and 2 fake Twitters". Sonnen tells Rome to let his fighters make the call.

Rome states that it's incredulous that he would deny that it was him. Rome states that if it was an impersonator, they spent 45 minutes doing an interview posing as Sonnen. Rome wonders what Dana White thinks of this "fight hype" as it's gone over the line and Dana is a "no BS guy".

Rome listeners are more harsh. One emailer criticizes Chael as a liar and wonders why he is "role model for working man".

Another lists the top 5 lies in history:

• I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky
• The Check is in the mail
• I did not kill Nicole and Ron
• I did not take Performance Enhancing Drugs
• Jim Rome, that was not me. That was a Hispanic guy.

Jim then receives an email:

Hey Rome,

Someone is on the radio right now impersonating you.

Signed,

Chael Sonnen

P.S. Clark kent thinks Sonnen's disguise is transparent

Rome fans seem to want Chael to get his ass whipped, but they didn't say they would "pay" to see.

A female caller calls in who works in "voice recognition" and says it's him. She says she wants to see him get beat up.

Larry Pepe called in and spoke to Rome's assistant and confirmed it was Chael.

A caller says that "due to Lance's tendency to drop the legal 'hammer' on people", so he thinks that Sonnen will be hearing from his lawyer. Could be big trouble from Sonnen.

Rome says that Sonnen has talked himself into the public conscious and selling tickets, but he has talked himself into something bigger than what he is. Rome says that Sonnen went too far when he made his Armstrong comments.

Another person who worked in the field of voice recognition pretty much says it was Sonnen as well.

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