# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chael-sonnen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:12:07.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chael-sonnen"
name: "Chael Sonnen"
slug: "chael-sonnen"
description: "Chael Sonnen is an American sports commentator, mixed martial arts (MMA) analyst, submission grappling promoter, and retired mixed martial artist. Beginning his MMA career in 1997, Sonnen competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he became a top contender in both the light heavyweight and middleweight divisions and challenged for both the UFC Light Heavyweight and UFC Middleweight Championships. Sonnen has also fought in World Extreme Cagefighting, Pancrase, and most recently for Bellator MMA. Sonnen is often considered one of the best mixed martial artists never to have won a major MMA world championship and one of the sport's greatest trash-talkers."
tagline: "American mixed martial artist (born 1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chael_Sonnen_-_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Podcasters"
  slug: "podcasters"
profileType:
  name: "Podcaster"
  slug: "podcaster"
birthDate: "1977-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           77.99
  momentum:             17.69908045942088
  historical:           15.46730933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 4
totalFollowers: 1350000
platforms:
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@sonnench"
    handle:    "sonnench"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ChaelSonnen"
    handle:    "ChaelSonnen"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/sonnench/"
    handle:    "sonnench"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://chaelsonnen.com"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ChaelSonnen"
    handle:    "ChaelSonnen"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2086002/"
    handle:    "nm2086002"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRlvF4jIeBWqXJDGNXfPyVw"
    handle:    "@chaelsonnenofficial"
    followers: 1350000
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Соннен, Чейл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chael_Sonnen"
    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شيل سونين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chael_Sonnen"
    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chael_Sonnen"
    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "چیل سانن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chael_Sonnen"
    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chael_Sonnen"
    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Չեյլ Սոննեն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chael_Sonnen"
    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "チェール・ソネン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chael_Sonnen"
    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1058745"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82920"
    title: "Chael Sonnen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump