Chael Sonnen learned the hard way not to mess with Gilbert Burns.
After Sonnen suggested that Burns was retired on a recent episode of “Good Guy/Bad Guy” with Daniel Cormier, Burns retaliated by leaking his phone number on X in a later deleted post. However, Sonnen took being doxxed in stride as he decided to host a Q&A with fans once an array of calls came his way.
Maybe he’s not such a “Bad Guy” after all.
Check out Sonnen’s Q&A with fans in the video below:
Burns gave Sonnen a taste of his own medicine here, as Sonnen once posted Chad Mendes’ number on social media after Mendes failed to respond to his text messages in the lead-up to his interim featherweight title fight vs. Conor McGregor at UFC 189.
Sonnen acknowledged that he was mistaken when claiming that Burns is retired after “Durinho” dropped his third consecutive fight against Sean Brady this past September in the UFC Fight Night 242 headliner.
“I tell Daniel, I said, ‘Hey, I love the idea of Gilbert. I know he’s still in the rankings, but he’s left the pool, Gilbert Burns retired,'” Sonnen said. “‘He officially retired after his last fight’. And, guys, to this moment in time I still think I’m right. No, I’m clearly not right.
“Somewhere that got misprogrammed in my head, but I can still pause and think back. I remember Gilbert saying this. So Gilbert goes on Twitter and he plays the clip, and he says that is so disrespectful. ‘Hey, Chael, I’d like to talk to you about this. Is your phone number still,’ and he posts my phone number.”
