Jack-Hammer
YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!!!!
The buzz of the MMA world for the past 1,5 days or so has been Chael Sonnen's announcement that he's retiring from MMA competition after failing his second drug test. In May of last year, Sonnen announced that he would like to buy WWE after retiring from mixed martial arts. Nobody really took Sonnen's boast seriously, even though his representative insisted that he wasn't joking. After WWE formally announced that the company isn't for sale after word of this got to them, they suggested that he purchase stock instead. To my knowledge, that was the end of the whole deal.
Sonnen has stated that he's retired and I figured it'd be interesting to bring up this little topic. As an MMA fighter, Sonnen is better known for having a big mouth than anything else. He's had 43 professional fights as a mixed martial artist with 28 wins, 14 losses and 1 draw. He's known to make bold, controversial comments during interviews and it's made him stand out as one of the better known stars on the MMA circuit. Prior to going pro, he was a highly decorated collegiate & Greco-Roman wrestler in college during the late 90s and early 2000s. According to celebritynetworth.com, Sonnen's worth $9 million.
While Sonnen mentioning some sort of relationship with WWE would generate a lot of buzz, I wouldn't see much coming out of it. Sonnen's too much of a loose cannon with a couple of skeletons in his closet. His drug test failures would set off some red flags alone, but he also pled guilty to money laundering as part of a mortgage fraud scheme in very early 2011. In agreeing to testify against others involved, he was fined $10,000 and received two years probation. Sonnen was a licensed realtor in Oregon and sold a home back in 2006. He told the title company to pay a plumbing company owned by Sonnen's mother for repairs, even though he knew they would not be carried out. After the mortgage company agreed to the loan, the plumbing company was paid $69,000 and, at Sonnen's direction, paid the home buyer $65,000.
He can't "buy" WWE as it's a publicly traded company and he doesn't have the money even if he wanted to. As a wrestler, aside from some buzz, I don't see Sonnen bringing all that much to the table if he did. He's 37 years old, has a history of using performance enhancing drugs, never wrestled a pro wrestling match in his life, has a huge ego and an even bigger mouth. I have a feeling it wouldn't be long before he stepped on somebody's toes.
Sonnen has stated that he's retired and I figured it'd be interesting to bring up this little topic. As an MMA fighter, Sonnen is better known for having a big mouth than anything else. He's had 43 professional fights as a mixed martial artist with 28 wins, 14 losses and 1 draw. He's known to make bold, controversial comments during interviews and it's made him stand out as one of the better known stars on the MMA circuit. Prior to going pro, he was a highly decorated collegiate & Greco-Roman wrestler in college during the late 90s and early 2000s. According to celebritynetworth.com, Sonnen's worth $9 million.
While Sonnen mentioning some sort of relationship with WWE would generate a lot of buzz, I wouldn't see much coming out of it. Sonnen's too much of a loose cannon with a couple of skeletons in his closet. His drug test failures would set off some red flags alone, but he also pled guilty to money laundering as part of a mortgage fraud scheme in very early 2011. In agreeing to testify against others involved, he was fined $10,000 and received two years probation. Sonnen was a licensed realtor in Oregon and sold a home back in 2006. He told the title company to pay a plumbing company owned by Sonnen's mother for repairs, even though he knew they would not be carried out. After the mortgage company agreed to the loan, the plumbing company was paid $69,000 and, at Sonnen's direction, paid the home buyer $65,000.
He can't "buy" WWE as it's a publicly traded company and he doesn't have the money even if he wanted to. As a wrestler, aside from some buzz, I don't see Sonnen bringing all that much to the table if he did. He's 37 years old, has a history of using performance enhancing drugs, never wrestled a pro wrestling match in his life, has a huge ego and an even bigger mouth. I have a feeling it wouldn't be long before he stepped on somebody's toes.
