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Joe Rogan on downsides of Chuck Liddell’s lifelong ‘marauder’ style: ‘Part of fighting has to be wise’

BAD MMA News — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 22:00:20 +0000

For years, Chuck Liddell ’s wild style of fighting paid off in more ways than one. It paid off inside the UFC cage, where at one point Liddell racked up six consecutive knockout wins – including a title-winning one, over Randy Couture, and four subsequent defenses. It paid off outside the cage, too, where Liddell soon established himself as one of MMA’s all-time fan-favorites. By the end of his octagon career, though, Liddell had become the one landing on the unfortunate end of the knockouts, and he retired on a three-fight skid. That is, until this past Saturday, when “The Iceman” returned from a more than eight-year absence for a trilogy match with Tito Ortiz in the headliner of Golden Boy’s first MMA event.

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Chuck Liddell: Tito Ortiz trilogy was ‘about my own personal journey and challenge’

BAD MMA News — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 03:53:58 +0000

For Chuck Liddell , his trilogy fight with fellow UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz was about much more than getting a win inside the cage. On Friday night, nearly a week after losing to Ortiz by first-round knockout in the headliner of Golden Boy’s inaugural MMA event, Liddell issued what appeared to be a prepared statement on Instagram . In the video, “The Iceman” gave thanks and addressed several topics, starting with expanding on why he decided to come out of retirement at age 48. “These past few months for me were a lot more than a fight against Tito,” Liddell said

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Liddell vs. Ortiz 3 generates $732K gate on over 5,000 tickets sold

BAD MMA News — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 01:48:30 +0000

Gallery Tito Ortiz def. Chuck Liddell at Golden Boy MMA: Best photos view 23 images The trilogy fight between Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz performed well at the box office, generating a $732,288.80 gross on 5,451 tickets sold. MMAjunkie on Friday requested and received the final live gate figures from the California State Athletic Commission, which regulated the event last Saturday at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. The event’s main card aired live on pay-per-view. After a variety of deductions paid to the commission, promoter Golden Boy’s net revenue was $691,239.

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Oscar De La Hoya fires back at Dana White on Liddell vs. Ortiz 3: Shut up, ‘save your own company’

BAD MMA News — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:36:14 +0000

Well, that escalated quickly. One day after Dana White called Oscar De La Hoya a “cokehead junkie” for making the Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz trilogy, the retired boxing champion’s personal publicist released a statement on his behalf in response to the UFC president’s rant . “Dana is so small and threatened by our success with DAZN and now in MMA that he is bringing up news from a decade ago to try to stay relevant,” De La Hoya said, according to a statement, sent by Stefan Friedman. “Boxing has entirely rejected him. And MMA fighters are now realizing they don’t have to risk their lives just so he can get rich.

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Tito Ortiz, waiting on pay-per-view numbers, responds to Dana White’s rant

BAD MMA News — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:53:11 +0000

Gallery Tito Ortiz def. Chuck Liddell at Golden Boy MMA: Best photos view 23 images Tito Ortiz has a message for Dana White: It’s not about you. After White ranted about Ortiz’s trilogy fight with Chuck Liddell , “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” took to Twitter to defend his recent offering (via Instagram ). Ortiz and Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya made compensation a central part of the buildup for this past Saturday’s fight, which ended with a first-round knockout for Ortiz

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Dana White fumes at ‘cokehead junkie’ Oscar De La Hoya for allowing Liddell vs. Ortiz 3

BAD MMA News — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:32:31 +0000

UFC President Dana White didn’t bite his tongue when it came to his disapproval of Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz 3. But after Liddell’s first-round knockout loss to Ortiz in a show promoted by Oscar De La Hoya, White is fuming. For over 10 minutes, White vented about the fight and De La Hoya, calling the retired boxing champion and promoter a “cokehead junkie” who “snorts about 12 pounds of coke in the morning and shows up where they want him to show up.” A request for comment to De La Hoya’s reps was not immediately returned. Related Tito Ortiz: If Chuck Liddell wants to fight, let's find him an opponent Chael Sonnen criticizes Oscar De La Hoya for Liddell vs.

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Chris Leben on new-ish job as MMA ref, watching Chuck Liddell lose

BAD MMA News — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:52:00 +0000

Gallery Tito Ortiz def. Chuck Liddell at Golden Boy MMA: Best photos view 23 images Chris Leben has had quite a month. The “Ultimate Fighter 1” veteran started his November by ending a five-year retirement brought on by serious health concerns, appearing in a bare-knuckle boxing promotion opposite fellow ex-UFCer Phil Baroni. Prior to the fight, Leben touted lifestyle changes he claimed had left him symptom free after a heart condition nixed a comeback contract with Bellator. In the ring, he looked reborn when he sent Baroni crashing to the canvas inside one round.

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Manager: Tito Ortiz wants to be Golden Boy’s ‘ambassador’ of MMA

BAD MMA News — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:07:37 +0000

Tito Ortiz ’s next goal is to work behind the scenes with Golden Boy Promotions. “Tito would love to be the ambassador,” Ortiz’s longtime manager, George Prajin, told MMAjunkie on Monday. Ortiz, a UFC Hall of Famer, said on “Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show” that he is “100 percent” done with fighting after a first-round knockout of fellow Hall of Famer Chuck Liddell this past Saturday at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. Related Tito Ortiz: If Chuck Liddell wants to fight, let's find him an opponent The Break: First Liddell-Ortiz 3, now Adesanya-Silva? What's with the elder abuse

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Tito Ortiz: If Chuck Liddell wants to fight, let’s find him an opponent

BAD MMA News — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:38:30 +0000

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – After taking him out in the first round with relative ease, Tito Ortiz said he’s OK if Chuck Liddell wants to get back in the cage after this past Saturday. He just doesn’t think it should be as a headliner, and he doesn’t think it should be against an opponent at his level. “If Chuck wants to fight – of course, not as a main event – but if he still wants to fight, let’s find him an opponent,” Ortiz (20-12-1) said after his knockout win over Liddell (21-9). “Let’s find someone who isn’t a Tito Ortiz. I’m vicious.

Chael Sonnen criticizes Oscar De La Hoya for Liddell vs. Ortiz 3 ‘disaster’

BAD MMA News — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:26:10 +0000

For Chael Sonnen , Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz 3 was nothing short of a “disaster.” Over the weekend, Ortiz defeated Liddell by first-round knockout in the headliner of Golden Boy’s first MMA pay-per-view to exact some revenge following two previous losses. By and large, it was a trilogy fight nobody asked for yet still got put together by Oscar De La Hoya nearly 12 years removed from the UFC Hall of Famers’ second encounter. Liddell, 48, came out of retirement after more than eight years to face 43-year-old Ortiz a third time. With the build-up and fight now over, Sonnen, 41, believes there is “a tremendous lesson” to be learned about the “disaster.” Related Trading Shots: Sorting through some heavy morning-after feelings on Liddell vs

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