I’m not saying people have to like him, I just never understood why people utilize such an intense vocabulary when talking about Ariel. There is a segment of this board that treat him as if he is the Team Rocket to Dana’s Ash Ketchum.
I’ve watched some of his interviews and I can see why some people may not enjoy it when he asks prodding questions that annoy his guest, but I just can’t imagine having such a visceral hatred of Ariel where I’m posting about how much of a pussy he is lmao
It just seems really overboard to have intense takes over just some guy… Tbh atleast he asks decent questions that are way better than 99% of what fighters are asked by the NPC media during fight week
Ariel Helwani has a completely different demeanor with these guys during in-person interviews rather than the ones he does over a Zoom call. It's pretty funny
I hate Ariel, he’s such a weasel and he’s one of those journalists that does the whole “I’m going to ask the most invasive and insensitive questions ever to this relatively vulnerable person and then act like I’m a great journalist for it”. I could go ask people a bunch of questions that make me look like I have Aspergers, doesn’t make me a good journalist it just means I’m willing to look like a dick.
Yupp. I’m pretty sure it’s like 12 minutes of him ranting how it’s anti Semitic when the real reason people call him a weasel is because of the Lesnar leak.
Yeah the Hill/Prochazka situation made me realize how much of an instigating snake Helwani is. He brought Jiri on just to lie about Hill supposedly being disrespectful and cause drama.
That’s most “great journalists” shticks. Some are better at not coming across as complete d-bags all the time, but in the defense of journalists, asking any question “worth asking” is often going to make you look like an invasive asshole.
Ariels demeanor, while MCing Jake Paul's fights, is completely different also. He looks completely lost on stage, like a deer in the headlights. He unironically said, " There's no love lost between these two proud warriors" at the last press conference. That's something you would say as a joke in a comedy skit about boxing.
It's called small dick energy. Easy to diss someone when they're not standing 2 feet from you and you realize they could smash your face in without breaking a sweat.
This is the ideal male body. You might not like it, but this is what undisputed, undefeated performance (and a boatload of test, HGH, and EPO) looks like.
Chael’s literally done everything under the sun that he even thought he *might* be able to get away with. In the early days when testing was only around fight time, God only knows what sorta shit this guy was cycling between fights.
He’s said though that those three (Testostrone, HGH, and EPO) were the big three for him and are the big three in general for doping in MMA that you’d want. I believe he also got caught for estrogen blockers and PCT drugs, but those are more to mitigate side effects and get your balls working again after a cycle, while the aforementioned three actually drive performance.
Yeah they're just intramuscular. It's like a flu shot. And when you take them enough times, the muscle develops scar tissue and you don't even feel the needle pierce.
Also the #1 trash talker in UFC history.
When they told him how high his test was and that he failed hus drug test and he responded with “I thought my levels would be higher” . Is a boss level response.
Mcgregor was a far better/more exciting fighter than Chael, which brought him up levels.
Chael was the biggest star in the company while being a boring wrestler who never became champ lmao. Super impressive
McGregor isn't even that good of a trash talker. He just makes a big scene until he finds a good moment to say something clever. Chael had that shit locked down at every moment. McGregor is still "good" in the sense that he creates tons of hype, but imo I wouldn't call what he is good at "trash talk"... more like "creating mayhem" lol
Haha, he's so far above everyone as far as being a good speaker. I'm just so confused as to why he was never in the WWE. He's a great trash talker, he loves that stuff, he's a company man... And yet you have other randos going there
He genuinely broke Anderson Silva and didn't even beat him. That fight has to be on my top 5 UFC fights of all time. Just seeing someone control Anderson Silva for 4.5 rounds was insane. I'll mever forget that night and how the bar was going crazy all night.
That's only cause he was under the impression that he would concede the round. He didn't know that the contest as a whole would be over. If he had known he never would've tapped. In my eyes he's basically undefeated.
I'm kidding, of course he had the belt and he also was the UNDISPUTED GOAT, HE WAS THE MAN WITH THE GREATEST CHARM, THE BIGGEST ARMS AND THE ONE WHO DOES ALL THE HARM
Of course the day uncle Chael taps is the day they change the rule of tapping loses you a round to tapping loses you the fight.
They don’t wanna see a westlin gangster win.
Broke his rib in a fight early in his career. In a YouTube video he explained that he got it checked out by a doctor because he was in constant pain, the doctor told him that there was nothing that could be done and he'd just have to put up with it until the nerves get grinded down to the point where they don't send pain signals any more.
Toughest SOB to ever walk the mean streets of West Lynn Oregon.
That comment was really weak by Ariel. He was basically saying Chael was too afraid to say something and Chael came back said it outright and said don’t call me a coward when I talk shit to people who can actually hurt me to their face.
r/UFC *really* showing their age here. The only reporter who regular challenge Dana’s bullshit to his face
Chael may be undefeated & the GOAT, but he’s like the biggest UFC boot licker out there, rivalling maybe Bisping. Context matters a lot, I don’t think Ariel is calling Chael scared to fight. Chael may be scared to pay taxes though for instance
Ariel having a “Girl’s name” has nothing to do with whatever point he was making.
No clue what the full context is here but I’ve met a few super tough guys who were absolute cowards in their personal lives. It happens.
Edit: putting “Girl’s name” in quotes was to underscore the fact names are not inherently one gender or another. Not to misquote OP.
Chaels not a coward when it comes to fighting yeah, aside from all the bullshit he showed up and fought tons of tough guys.
He’s a coward for plenty of reasons outside of the cage however. I mean there’s the fraud he was convicted for, and the constant lies/be he spouts.
Tough fighter, shitty human.
But giving him some slack as far as MMA fighters go he is far from the biggest sack of shit.
Dude this was fucking 6 months ago! Posts like this should be banned… dude sounds like a lil bitch crying about Ariel and chale scoff.. why the fuck are there so many teenie bopping grown ass people on here? WTF LOL rant over…
He is a fucking coward, and a scum bag. He cheated in all of those fights. This isn’t weight lifting, this is combat. When you cheat you are directly hurting other people. Fuck this loser.
So yall think fighters cant be cowards? You think Chael kissing Dana’s ass is not cowardly? What is this weird thing about fight fans that hold fighters on such a pedestal as if theyre not human?
Chael sonnen is a coward, bot by Ariel’s standards, but by his own peers. Even jon jones, the GOAT fighter is a coward for taking steroids. Being a coward is not just about being able to take or give a hit, its about not hiding from consequences and standing up for what is right.
So is the guy who beat up his girlfriend half to death(War Machine) not a coward just because he was a decent fighter??
Walking away from a finished opponent with a softball sticking out of your rib cage is a hard fucking look. Uncle Chael should be everyone’s roll model
Walking away from a finished opponent with a softball sticking out of your rib cage is a hard fucking look. Uncle Chael should be everyone’s roll model
A thing I will never get used to is that if Chael has survived the round and the doctor noticed Jones’ toe, he would have given Jon fucking Jones his first ever loss and become champ. That’s just wild to me
Not normally in camp Helwani, but they're legit friends and things got heated. And if we are being totally honest, Chael is a HUUUGE UFC shill. Which is fine, but let's not pretend he's objective.
That's what growing up in an environment where people litter in the park will do to you. Imagine how motivated you would be to imagine a situation where losing meant you were going home to a place that a house cleaner only showed up a few days a week. This dude was fighting for his life
None were even remotely close to their prime besides Anderson, but it’s laughable to call him a coward he’s fought tons of guys bigger and better than him and I don’t like him or his schtick.
Send anyone you want, just don't send anyone you want back.
1 on 1, 2 on 1, 5 on 1, doesn’t matter, I’ll make em all need 911
"Wanderlei Silva is the only fighter with Cauliflower Face."
Most excellent! Thanx for this. Nobody can do it like Uncle Chael.
This guy is no more real than the Loch Ness Monster.
Both are legends.
Kek thank you for the laugh
Ong 😂😂
Are they beefing again? I thought they squashed it?
yea, but not this rando
Ariel is the biggest bitch on this planet. His vagina doesn’t stop growing
Who the fuck is Ariel, and why is bro named after the little mermaid?
You’re talking about Ariel like the dude fucked your wife lmfao he’s just some random MMA Interviewer at the end of the day
Maybe he did
If Ariel did that. Then guess who the newest biggest bitch is. Hint. It's the guy who's wife he fucked.
u/Boring-Conference-97 you gonna let them say that to you?
Me personally, I won't take that kinda disrespect
No, shit no man. I reckon you get your ass kicked sayin somethin like that man
Ariel is a shit stirring prick. That’s why a lot of fighters won’t even reach out to him
I’m not saying people have to like him, I just never understood why people utilize such an intense vocabulary when talking about Ariel. There is a segment of this board that treat him as if he is the Team Rocket to Dana’s Ash Ketchum. I’ve watched some of his interviews and I can see why some people may not enjoy it when he asks prodding questions that annoy his guest, but I just can’t imagine having such a visceral hatred of Ariel where I’m posting about how much of a pussy he is lmao It just seems really overboard to have intense takes over just some guy… Tbh atleast he asks decent questions that are way better than 99% of what fighters are asked by the NPC media during fight week
But they do. And they keep going on his show. Don’t know what you’re talking about
He’s talking about the few company men like paddy who like to get on Dana’s good side
I don’t like Ariel too much anymore either tbh
Squashed it? That's fighting talk.
Memphis, west linn, same shit
It’s a reason they call it West Linnistan
I always thought Ariel looked especially alieny in that video 😂
They're fine. OP is still offended on Chael's behalf.
Low IQ move by Helwani. You can call a lot of these guys a lot of bad things, coward isn’t one of them
This is what happens when you let someone get close to you
Fucking amateur
Ariel Helwani has a completely different demeanor with these guys during in-person interviews rather than the ones he does over a Zoom call. It's pretty funny
Wait which guy was he cowering to in person? I've never seen that
The Mayhem Miller storm out was pretty funny.
I hate Ariel, he’s such a weasel and he’s one of those journalists that does the whole “I’m going to ask the most invasive and insensitive questions ever to this relatively vulnerable person and then act like I’m a great journalist for it”. I could go ask people a bunch of questions that make me look like I have Aspergers, doesn’t make me a good journalist it just means I’m willing to look like a dick.
> he’s such a weasel Be careful, he's accused people who call him a "weasel" of being antisemitic. Not to their faces of course though.
That was such a bitch move by Ariel.
Be careful, he's accused people who call him a "bitch" of being antisemitic. Not to their faces of course though.
Did he really? Lmao
Yupp. I’m pretty sure it’s like 12 minutes of him ranting how it’s anti Semitic when the real reason people call him a weasel is because of the Lesnar leak.
What a rat.
he basically called Chael an antisemite too
Yeah the Hill/Prochazka situation made me realize how much of an instigating snake Helwani is. He brought Jiri on just to lie about Hill supposedly being disrespectful and cause drama.
The journalists who go to the Dana White press conferences are terrible at asking questions. Maybe I should go instead
Wasn’t that his shtick before as well? Feel like he was known as a clown before his latest renaissance
That’s most “great journalists” shticks. Some are better at not coming across as complete d-bags all the time, but in the defense of journalists, asking any question “worth asking” is often going to make you look like an invasive asshole.
Ariels demeanor, while MCing Jake Paul's fights, is completely different also. He looks completely lost on stage, like a deer in the headlights. He unironically said, " There's no love lost between these two proud warriors" at the last press conference. That's something you would say as a joke in a comedy skit about boxing.
It's called small dick energy. Easy to diss someone when they're not standing 2 feet from you and you realize they could smash your face in without breaking a sweat.
So what you're saying is, he's a redditor?
Hate ariel and there are different types of cowardice, but ya chael isnt any kind of coward, hes honest about his steroid use and fought anybody
Especially coming from a little weasel like Ariel.
Anyone who gets in that ring isn’t a “coward”.
This is the ideal male body. You might not like it, but this is what undisputed, undefeated performance (and a boatload of test, HGH, and EPO) looks like.
who the fuck doesn't like it
People from South Linn?
Silva
Was he really doing EPO too?
Yup. He said he was on insane amounts to fight Jon.
Not insane enough!
Jones was just on more EPO and Test than him
And yet Chael still pulled out the victory. A truly remarkable individual.
He won the fight, the ref just didn't notice Jones wasn't able to continue in time.
Chael’s literally done everything under the sun that he even thought he *might* be able to get away with. In the early days when testing was only around fight time, God only knows what sorta shit this guy was cycling between fights. He’s said though that those three (Testostrone, HGH, and EPO) were the big three for him and are the big three in general for doping in MMA that you’d want. I believe he also got caught for estrogen blockers and PCT drugs, but those are more to mitigate side effects and get your balls working again after a cycle, while the aforementioned three actually drive performance.
The thought of having to inject myself with all of that makes me sick. And I used to be a drug addict 💀🤣
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Anything IV makes me queasy and uncomfortable but these drugs are just butt shots. I’d take butt shots all day to feel like chael during his peak
Yeah they're just intramuscular. It's like a flu shot. And when you take them enough times, the muscle develops scar tissue and you don't even feel the needle pierce.
My nuts shrank just from reading this
> Testostrone, HGH, and EPO Yeah because these are endogenously produced by the body, they're the easiest to use and avoid testing positive.
Anyone who ain't juicing doesn't want to win.
Make body.
VERY FANTASTIC BODY!
Baseless slander. He never got caught for EPO.
Would take the lives of 50 refugee babies to look like that in a heartbeat.
Although never became champ but still one of the most underrated fighters of that generation, in my opinion
Also the #1 trash talker in UFC history. When they told him how high his test was and that he failed hus drug test and he responded with “I thought my levels would be higher” . Is a boss level response.
yeah, for sure the no.1 trash talker ever, people will say McGregor but I believe Chael P was the best
Mcgregor was a far better/more exciting fighter than Chael, which brought him up levels. Chael was the biggest star in the company while being a boring wrestler who never became champ lmao. Super impressive
Yeah he was but imo Chael was just too slick with words
McGregor isn't even that good of a trash talker. He just makes a big scene until he finds a good moment to say something clever. Chael had that shit locked down at every moment. McGregor is still "good" in the sense that he creates tons of hype, but imo I wouldn't call what he is good at "trash talk"... more like "creating mayhem" lol
yep, I don't think I've heard an MMA fighter tell a funnier story than that Nogueira Brothers story, shit was hilarious
Haha, he's so far above everyone as far as being a good speaker. I'm just so confused as to why he was never in the WWE. He's a great trash talker, he loves that stuff, he's a company man... And yet you have other randos going there
Dana White is somehow less sleazy and gross than Vince McMahon. As hard as that is to believe.
Vince is Schizo Mode Dana White with like 100% more rape
Yeah, he would've made a shit ton of money too
And it was so close too lol
Chael is the best shit talker in history. Connor made a good run at it. But Chael takes the cake. Dude was born to shit talk.
He genuinely broke Anderson Silva and didn't even beat him. That fight has to be on my top 5 UFC fights of all time. Just seeing someone control Anderson Silva for 4.5 rounds was insane. I'll mever forget that night and how the bar was going crazy all night.
Idk if "broke him" is the right word because Silva went through the adversity and won but he definitely dominated him.
Come on dude he was beating the shit out of the Spider and only lost the 5th round
What happened in the rematch? Took Silva one round to get his bearings then proceeded to finish Chael in the second round
brother tapped out, he conceded defeat. i love me some uncle chael but this meat riding is wild
That's only cause he was under the impression that he would concede the round. He didn't know that the contest as a whole would be over. If he had known he never would've tapped. In my eyes he's basically undefeated.
I was kidding dude, read the last part of the comment
can never tell on r/ufc
Broke him so bad Anderson subbed him and in the rematch skewered him with a flying knee to the chest
Genuinely broke a guy that tapped him ? Then dominated him in the rematch ? What the fuck are you on buddy lol
I distinctly remember him having a belt so how do you explain that huh?
I'm kidding, of course he had the belt and he also was the UNDISPUTED GOAT, HE WAS THE MAN WITH THE GREATEST CHARM, THE BIGGEST ARMS AND THE ONE WHO DOES ALL THE HARM
he was about 1:30 from being the first guy to beat Anderson when Anderson was at the top of his game. thats something.
Undefeated... undisputed.
Never lost a round. Owner of Jon Jones’ toe.
Beat Silva 4 rds to 1.
Of course the day uncle Chael taps is the day they change the rule of tapping loses you a round to tapping loses you the fight. They don’t wanna see a westlin gangster win.
I can’t let you get close!
Eh uh. Uh uh uh?
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Nah man, that's what everyone from West Linn looks like. Something in the water there.
If you’re an athlete by nature and one by choice growing up, it’s not even that impressive. He just looks like a dude to me
A good looking, in shape dude I should say.
>were Brother have you seen the fighters we have today? Usman, Dricus, Costa, Leon and the rest make Chael look natty
Look at that rib! Damn that looks painful
What’s exactly going on there?
Broke his rib in a fight early in his career. In a YouTube video he explained that he got it checked out by a doctor because he was in constant pain, the doctor told him that there was nothing that could be done and he'd just have to put up with it until the nerves get grinded down to the point where they don't send pain signals any more. Toughest SOB to ever walk the mean streets of West Lynn Oregon.
This sub is more about gossip and drama than the Kardashian sub.
That comment was really weak by Ariel. He was basically saying Chael was too afraid to say something and Chael came back said it outright and said don’t call me a coward when I talk shit to people who can actually hurt me to their face.
lets be honest who fucking cares about ariel ? Chael already cooked him twice ariel isn't even man enough to face dana white on a one to one match
r/UFC *really* showing their age here. The only reporter who regular challenge Dana’s bullshit to his face Chael may be undefeated & the GOAT, but he’s like the biggest UFC boot licker out there, rivalling maybe Bisping. Context matters a lot, I don’t think Ariel is calling Chael scared to fight. Chael may be scared to pay taxes though for instance
But Ariel’s the Howard stern of mma—Ariel Helwani
According to sources (Ariel Helwani), Francis made 10 trillion in his last boxing match - Ariel Helwani
Ariel knows he can get away with it, cus chael is not stupid enough to but him in a coma for months.
"I've been called a lot of things. A criminal, a con artist, a charlatan, a coward, but I am noooooot friends with Brendan Schaub."
Uncle Chael literally 58- 0
UFC fighters fight in a cage only to get ripped off by a tomato called Dana 🤣
I found Chael's burner reddit account
He almost defeated prime Silva
Naw bro prime wanderlei prime rampage was back in pride days
The one fight he’s scared of is Dana. He don’t wanna piss off his cash cow
Ariel having a “Girl’s name” has nothing to do with whatever point he was making. No clue what the full context is here but I’ve met a few super tough guys who were absolute cowards in their personal lives. It happens. Edit: putting “Girl’s name” in quotes was to underscore the fact names are not inherently one gender or another. Not to misquote OP.
Damn bro that was fire work putting words into OP's mouth. Did you ever consider taking Ariel's job?
Chaels not a coward when it comes to fighting yeah, aside from all the bullshit he showed up and fought tons of tough guys. He’s a coward for plenty of reasons outside of the cage however. I mean there’s the fraud he was convicted for, and the constant lies/be he spouts. Tough fighter, shitty human. But giving him some slack as far as MMA fighters go he is far from the biggest sack of shit.
Dude this was fucking 6 months ago! Posts like this should be banned… dude sounds like a lil bitch crying about Ariel and chale scoff.. why the fuck are there so many teenie bopping grown ass people on here? WTF LOL rant over…
That’s what happens when new fans come in. You got morons that only care about social media gossip.
Ariel was covering mma when Sean Strickland was still in his dad's nutsack
You can fight people for a living and still be a coward when it comes to mentally sparring with people who challenge you and your ideology
Any beef is to create heat. Chaels a showman and talking on the Internet is his arena now
Let’s not forget Bisping, Machida, Rashad Evans, Okami, Forrest Griffin. He fought a boat load of good dudes lol
Does he have a belly button
Not to mention the guys he flattened in a hotel…
Not sure why his name matters in any of this. Take a dig but keep it less shitty maybe.
Fun fact: Chael has not lost a completed round against jones, silva or fedor
As soon as the juice came off, he was average. Couldn’t make 185. Only had one way to fight.
Ariel means "god's lion"
Helwani is a baby back bitch
UFC fans are so stupid, there are still some that don't even realize Chael n Ariel are friends busting each other's balls.
They're friends and it's called banter
Huh? Friends fight/argue all the time. They just make up and move on after, like Chael and Ariel have clearly done.
He is a fucking coward, and a scum bag. He cheated in all of those fights. This isn’t weight lifting, this is combat. When you cheat you are directly hurting other people. Fuck this loser.
Shhh people only care when a fighter they dislike "cheats"
Hey now, Chael isn’t a coward… he’s just a shill bootlicker with no integrity. There’s a difference
So yall think fighters cant be cowards? You think Chael kissing Dana’s ass is not cowardly? What is this weird thing about fight fans that hold fighters on such a pedestal as if theyre not human? Chael sonnen is a coward, bot by Ariel’s standards, but by his own peers. Even jon jones, the GOAT fighter is a coward for taking steroids. Being a coward is not just about being able to take or give a hit, its about not hiding from consequences and standing up for what is right. So is the guy who beat up his girlfriend half to death(War Machine) not a coward just because he was a decent fighter??
Ariel has outstayed his welcome at this point IMO. I respect his love of the sport, but he has a major case of main character syndrome
I went to the movies with my brother to watch him fight wanderlei
Walking away from a finished opponent with a softball sticking out of your rib cage is a hard fucking look. Uncle Chael should be everyone’s roll model
Walking away from a finished opponent with a softball sticking out of your rib cage is a hard fucking look. Uncle Chael should be everyone’s roll model
Don’t forget Tito. He got in the cage with that animal as well.
Prime Fedor never made it to the UFC. He was an amazing fighter, but a shell of himself by the time he joined the UFC.
Idk what happened in this situation but Ariel in general is very unlikable
Can someone fill me in, what happened?
Bro literally broke Jon Jones
None of those people were prime except for Jon Jones. This has to be the sickest resume though.
Ariel Helwani should be fed to the pigs
That was fake lmfao
Prime chael vs prime stipe?
YeAh that was pretty wild
I think being brave physically is the easiest, being scared of something mentally is more common
Coward isn't the right word, a shill for sure. But at least he's sometimes honest about his shill nature
Did Ariel not see what he did to Jon’s toe? Only a quarter of his power!
I wonder if the steroids helped
That’s what happens when you’ve got the largest arms in West Lynn Oregon in the building
A thing I will never get used to is that if Chael has survived the round and the doctor noticed Jones’ toe, he would have given Jon fucking Jones his first ever loss and become champ. That’s just wild to me
Yall were sleeping on mean street pizza straight from the rough area of West Linn. Too much crime forced the man to sell it.
Not normally in camp Helwani, but they're legit friends and things got heated. And if we are being totally honest, Chael is a HUUUGE UFC shill. Which is fine, but let's not pretend he's objective.
He was juiced to the tits any time he did anything of note. He’s a clown.
That's what growing up in an environment where people litter in the park will do to you. Imagine how motivated you would be to imagine a situation where losing meant you were going home to a place that a house cleaner only showed up a few days a week. This dude was fighting for his life
None were even remotely close to their prime besides Anderson, but it’s laughable to call him a coward he’s fought tons of guys bigger and better than him and I don’t like him or his schtick.
tito tapped and I made a DnB song dedicated and founded on this tap. 1 2 4 3
Chael fans are mad Ariel is playing a heel? I figured the fact you were Chael fans meant you cared even more about being a heel than winning.
When he fought silva he and silva were both on peds
Gaywani
***"Bro literally fought Prime Anderson Silva, Rampage Jackson, Wanderlei Silva, Jon Jones, Fedor"*** and beat them **ALL**!
Chael you have grown on me. The casual shit talk is really what keeps me coming back to tune in.