We never really hopped on the UFC train in the first place, but apparently blogdom and other media outlets are suggesting that Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell's bludgeoning by the hands of Quinton "Rampage" Jackson could prove disastrous to the sport. All that buildup, all those magazine covers, all that money ESPN shelled out for a site that specializes in UFC coverage - could it all be for naught? Probably not. The few UFC fans we associate with say they were still, for the most part, entertained by last weekend's action. Apparently, the undercard was to die for. That's nice. We applaud them. But when you're UFC and you have a division killer like Chuck Liddell, whose gradual evolution into a brand name has closely followed yours, news like this can't be good?
That "junior doughboy" look Chuck was wearing at the fight? That wasn't just a slow metablism paunch. Maybe Liddell bought into his own hype. It happened to Tyson. Michael Moorer, too. But wasn't he fighting someone who had already beaten him once? If that's not incentive enough to hit the gym, we don't know what is.
Still, let's not bust Chuck's nuts too much. A little excess here and there is expected when you're at the zenith of your sport. A little takeout at an all-nude strip club in Toronto when you're married? That's far more interesting. At least when you're the marquee player for the most famous franchise in all of sports. What...you haven't heard about this yet? Pick up the NY Post before all the copies are gone. Trust us, it's worth a quarter.
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