{"id":632663,"date":"2026-04-27T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:52:09","slug":"chael-sonnen-responds-to-jorge-masvidals-bare-knuckle-challenge-and-fiery-rant-struck-a-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632663\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen responds to Jorge Masvidal&#8217;s bare-knuckle challenge and fiery rant: &#8216;Struck a nerve!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer Chael Sonnen responded to Jorge Masvidal\u2019s recent callout as the two reignited their long-standing feud.<\/p>\n<p>Inaugural BMF champion Jorge Masvidal continues to tease a return to the UFC Octagon as he plans to end his retirement stemming from UFC 287. After a loss to former UFC title challenger Gilbert Burns, Masvidal announced his retirement in front of his hometown crowd in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Three years after his retirement, Masvidal wants to return to the cage against a marquee name. Conor McGregor was briefly floated around as a potential opponent for Masvidal, before those rumors fizzled in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst Masvidal\u2019s uncertain return timeline, Chael Sonnen accused Masvidal of \u2018putting on a work\u2019 and not being fully truthful about his fight plans. This prompted Masvidal to call out Sonnen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/jorge-masvidal\/jorge-masvidal-unleashes-chael-sonnen-lying-planned-ufc-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for a bare-knuckle fight in an X-rated rant<\/a> on his Death Row MMA podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Chael Sonnen\/Jorge Masvidal feud escalates after bare-knuckle callout<\/p>\n<p>In a recent video uploaded to his <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/imgdXf5z7E4?si=KEG8JT_j5XjM3bC8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a> channel, Sonnen hit back at Masvidal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only said one thing, that Jorge isn\u2019t returning to the UFC,\u201d Sonnen said of Masvidal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came after me very hard, from a personal standpoint. Angry, fighting back, that\u2019s the part that made me feel bad. I wasn\u2019t trying to go for Jorge\u2019s jugular, and I could tell that I struck a nerve. In Jorge\u2019s response, he never once touched on the only thing that I said. He never once touched on and said \u2018I\u2019m returning to the UFC\u2019 or that he was working a character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe never addressed the only thing that I brought up, and that made me feel bad. I didn\u2019t say that to hurt Jorge\u2019s feelings!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, it\u2019s uncertain if Masvidal and Sonnen\u2019s feud will transition into a fight in the cage or boxing ring between the two former UFC stars. Sonnen returned to combat sports in a boxing match against two-time UFC rival Anderson Silva in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Who wins in a Jorge Masvidal vs. Chael Sonnen bare-knuckle fight? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Hall of Famer Chael Sonnen responded to Jorge Masvidal\u2019s recent callout as the two reignited their long-standing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,31771,641,7181,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-632663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chael-sonnen","tag-fighting","tag-jorge-masvidal","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}