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       Chael Sonnen" I Won't Work For GFW Unless They Get A U.S.
       TV Deal" & More 
   DIR By: tnafanforum
       Date: September 7, 2015, 2:53 pm
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       Source: The Steve Austin Show
       On episode 250 of the Steve Austin Show, 'Stone Cold' Steve
       Austin welcomed former MMA fighter and current GFW expert
       analyst Chael Sonnen to the podcast. During the interview,
       Sonnen discussed his experience thus far with GFW and shared his
       thoughts on TNA.
       Sonnen suggested to Austin that either GFW was unprepared at the
       first production meeting Sonnen attended or Jeff Jarrett has a
       great deal of faith in Sonnen, as he was not a part of the
       original script for the first GFW show. Sonnen indicated that he
       was informed about the first production meeting secondhand,
       though he was flown out to Las Vegas first class, his hotel room
       was paid for by GFW, and he was paid to be there. During the
       meeting, the crew went through the entire first show and Sonnen
       realized that he was not on the show at all.
       "I said to [Jarrett] after this meeting, I said, 'Jeff, I'm not
       in the show'," Sonnen said. "And he says, 'did you want to be?'
       And I said, 'well, yeah! Yeah, I wanted to be!' So he opens up
       the script and he thumbs to, like, page three and he sticks his
       big old finger on the page and says, 'why don't you come in
       right here?' That's all he said. He doesn't say, 'you're going
       face [or] you're going heel; you're going to be edited in,
       edited out; promote the next show.' He tells me absolutely
       nothing."
       With respect to Sonnen's role as expert analyst for GFW, Sonnen
       acknowledged that "unless [Jarrett] gets a television deal,
       there's nothing for me to commentate."
       "If he [Jarrett] goes and signs a deal in Turkey, which he's
       actually being offered one, that isn't going to be my voice,"
       Sonnen said. "I don't speak Turkish. That's going to be someone
       else, so for me to participate, he [has] got to get an American
       deal. I trust that he will, but it's a gamble and unless he
       does, I'm really not part of the show."
       As for Jarrett's current relationship with TNA, Sonnen stated
       that Jarrett owns more than 11% of TNA, but that Jarrett told
       him that he does not own enough of the company to go in and
       control the board. Sonnen admitted that he thinks TNA is going
       to go under, but that Jarrett is going to absorb TNA's talent
       and that it will all be rebranded as GFW.
       In addition to talking about GFW and TNA, Sonnen shared his
       thoughts on Ronda Rousey, he talked about whether he might
       become a professional wrestler, and he told a story about
       pitching a ridiculous gimmick
       #Post#: 32835--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chael Sonnen" I Won't Work For GFW Unless They Get A
       U.S. TV Deal" & More 
   DIR By: tnagirl
       Date: September 10, 2015, 4:51 pm
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       Who needs a guy like that tbh no one is bigger than the person
       who is paying you
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