Chael Sonnen's Coach Believes He'll retire after 2nd Loss to Anderson Silva

Written by Jason Gittens Monday, 09 July 2012 12:14

Could Chael Sonnen retire after his second loss to Anderson Silva and Second shot at the middleweight title? Well Sonnen's coach Neil Melanson has a strong feeling that Sonnen will actually retire now.

Neil Melanson was speaking on the "Verbal Submission Show" where he revealed his thoughts and suspicions that Chael Sonnen will walk away from the sport now.

"Any time you're a part of training camp or you're friends with somebody and they lose, you just worry about them like, how are they gonna handle it mentally? Are they gonna come back from this? You know, I don't know what Chael's plans are, but I got a feeling he's done fighting. I don't know. I've just got a feeling he's done. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he was serious when he said, 'If you beat me, I will leave forever,' and there's a very good chance of that."

"I never met anyone that had a scenario where it's like, 'If I don't win this then I'm done,' it never worked out positive for them because, just in my experience, you have to love the grind and if you love the grind, eventually you'll get what you want because you give up what you need to give up."
"Apparently Chael had his limit like, 'This is it, I've had enough. If I don't win this then it's all not worth it.' Having lost that, yeah, there's a very good chance he could pursue other things. He's a very smart guy, very well spoken. I know, whether he'll admit to it or not, he has a lot of passion to be a broadcaster of sorts. He seems to excel in any type of speaking arrangement. He loves doing interviews. He loves hyping fights and I'm sure he loves training. He's a good fighter. He's a great fighter and he's an awesome athlete but he can't fight forever and maybe he's at a point he'd like to do something else. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong."

So there you go, will Chael Walk away? What do you think? Will he or won't he?