Media How TUF 3 (2014) got saved: the day Wanderlei Silva got awestruck by Chael's account balance @ BofA

[20falarVerdades]

We were in Brazil, and the first day of the filming of The Ultimate Fighter, he quit. He quit the whole show. He goes, ‘I'm done and I'm leaving.' And that was real. They didn't show very much of it, but it was a mess. We couldn't leave the set. We had to get Wanderlei back, but we had Dana (White) on the phone. It was an absolute mess. We had Vitor (Belfort) on the phone, wondering, hey, if this guy really walks, will you get on a plane? It was that [bad]. We thought the show was over."

That's what it is. So I'm explaining this thing to him, and he's telling me how to do it. ‘You've got to do this and you've got to do that.' I just stop and I go: ‘Wanderlei, stop. Between us, just stop. I am the highest paid fighter in the history of the sport. I'm the biggest draw in the history of this sport. Do you really think you should be giving me advice, or should you be taking it? Should you be copying me?'

I log into my Bank of America app and I just show it to him. And I said, ‘do you really think that you should be giving me advice, or should you just come along for the ride and let me take it from here?'

And his whole expression, he didn't say it but he was like, alright, let's go do the show. And that's actually where that ended.

I know that makes me a prick, but that's what changed him right there, is I freaking showed him, ‘hey, I know what I'm doing here. You do your thing and let me carry us.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2016/5/...saved-tuf-brazil-3-by-showing-wanderlei-silva

Uncle Chael must be balling till to this day

 

[gonads20]

I believe nothing of what Chael says. Everyone one of his stories is made up or exaggerated to all hell. I use to think he was a good dude but after his latest assault case hes just a psychopath.

 

[Achilles00]

Was this before or after his felony for money laundering?

 

[FIghtxIQ]

Depends on the advice and subject. Money doesn't mean anything depending on the subject. Knowledge isn't always tied to money and bank accounts. Financial advice sure, they can tell you how they did it but won't know another way of doing it. Like Jake Paul can talk about youtube and social media and how he made money from that, he wouldn't be able to guide someone broke going through college and working their way up after graduation while paying down their school loans. Apples and oranges.

 

[20falarVerdades]

Was this before or after his felony for money laundering?

This was in 2014, he plead guilty to one count of money laundering in 2011, stemming from a 2006 real estate deal.

source: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2011/01/chael_sonnen_former_uo_wrestle.html

 

[Paolo Delutis]

Well Chael never lies...


So i guess that's how that went down..

Now you know

 

[Achilles00]

This was in 2014, he plead guilty to one count of money laundering in 2011, stemming from a 2006 real estate deal.

source: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2011/01/chael_sonnen_former_uo_wrestle.html

Hah! I knew it was after. All I was doing was demonstrating that Chael is not the most upstanding guy, and therefore I don't take most of what he says seriously.

 

[GilErick]

Chael also admitted to buy stories from Chris Leben …

 

[Substance Abuse]

 

[regmma123]

Chael strikes me as the kind of guy that wouldn't help his parents in their old age because he's too busy with a podcast

 

[Mayonnaiseandjelly]

I believe nothing of what Chael says. Everyone one of his stories is made up or exaggerated to all hell. I use to think he was a good dude but after his latest assault case hes just a psychopath.

remember how he said he was defending his wife? except it was from himself and 7 people trying to help her.

 

[dracul]

if anyone believes this
they should immediately kill themselves

 

[Ace70 V2]

The amount was so low that Wanderlei was overwhelmed with emotion. His heart grew 10x bigger that day when he decided to help Chael feed his family.


More believable IMO

 

[MillingMeSoftly]

For the record the money laundering thing was kind of bullshit

He got a deal done and they sensationalized it

Basically it was $65,000 in plumbing repairs that never took place but that were attributed to his father's plumbing company and worked into the cost of a loan for a house or something like that

Not saying it was right but it's not like he was stealing money from anybody or actually hurting anybody it was just trying to get somebody into a house and cutting corners legally.

 

[MillingMeSoftly]

I believe nothing of what Chael says. Everyone one of his stories is made up or exaggerated to all hell. I use to think he was a good dude but after his latest assault case hes just a psychopath.

Why is he a psychopath

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

The only undefeated undisputed champion in UFC history...

 

[PhilMcCavity]

I believe nothing of what Chael says. Everyone one of his stories is made up or exaggerated to all hell. I use to think he was a good dude but after his latest assault case hes just a psychopath.

That’s not true I heard him say he’s of German decent and Germans have never done anything that would be construed as violent or harmful

 

[KarateYeah]

20falarMentiras

 

[White lightning 2]

I am sure Wandy has more money than Sonnen

 

[nhbfan8080]

For the record the money laundering thing was kind of bullshit

He got a deal done and they sensationalized it
Basically it was $65,000 in plumbing repairs that never took place but that were attributed to his father's plumbing company and worked into the cost of a loan for a house or something like that
Not saying it was right but it's not like he was stealing money from anybody or actually hurting anybody it was just trying to get somebody into a house and cutting corners legally.

How could 'they' have known about a relatively small amount? Maybe it was tied up with a far larger case?