Former UFC fighter and current commentator and analyst Chael Sonnen criticized Charles Oliveira for his unwillingness to fight Islam Makhachev.
"Oliveira has made it very clear that he doesn't want to fight Islam. He made that clear even before they fought in October. Oliveira and his manager have given separate interviews over the last seven days saying that if Charles beats Tsarukyan, he wants Conor MaCgregor. If you're sitting around waiting for Conor McGregor, you're unemployed. If you're asking for a Conor fight when somebody else is trying to get you a world title fight, we can't make you do anything you don't want to do," Sonnen said on an episode of the Good Guy Bad Guy podcast.