Oh, just your average interview with Bellator 170's Chael Sonnen – with one small exception

In case you haven’t noticed, Chael Sonnen likes to poke fun at the dreadfully self-serious Tito Ortiz.

When UFC Hall of Famer Ortiz has offered violent and scatological predictions of Sonnen’s fate in the cage Saturday at Bellator 170, the three-time title challenger’s counter has been sarcasm.

So when MMAjunkie handed him a special prop for a pre-fight interview, Sonnen didn’t balk. (Check it out in the video above.)

For the three-time UFC title challenger and high-profile Bellator acquisition, fighting Ortiz is simply about business.

“There’s not some great storyline there,” Sonnen (18-12-1 MMA, 2-1 BMMA) told MMAjunkie in a recent interview prior to his Spike-televised headliner opposite Ortiz (29-14-1 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. “Tito’s a Hall of Famer and a world champion. We’re in the same weight class. So what. Let’s fight.”

They could have fooled us. Between the trash talk, emotional interviews and smashing of juice boxes, we’ve gotten more than our fair share of hyperbole.

Sonnen complicates things to sell the story. But in the end, like he said, it’s just an ass-kicking contest – one Bellator expects the world to watch. No reason he can’t have a little fun on the way.

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