Twitter Mailbag: Sonnen's Suspension, Strikeforce's Tourney, and More

Filed under: UFC, Strikeforce

From the personal to the professional, you crazy Twitterheads hit the @BenFowlkesMMA mailbag with every possible question this time around, so I'll do my best to answer as many as possible before the length of this article becomes unruly and unmanageable.

That means there's no time to waste. Who's up first?

@Batching_It why do you think it's a contract suspension/freeze for Chael instead of just general time off? Is there a precedence?

One word: appearances. Sonnen is a guy who, while under suspension for unauthorized use of testosterone in a title fight, pleaded guilty to federal money laundering charges. Somewhere in there he also found time to tweet a bunch of racist stuff, lie blatantly and unconvincingly about a bunch of other stuff he'd said, and generally act like an emotionally unstable teenager. After a stretch like that, Sonnen is one rehab stint away from turning into MMA's version of Lindsay Lohan. The UFC had to do something, or at least appear to be doing something.

Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/01/05/twitter-mailbag-sonnens-suspension-strikeforces-tourney-and/

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