Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Is The IceMan Still Here?


In the long career which began professionally in 1998 for Chuck "The Ice Man " Lidell and even years before then while disciplining himself in various forms of martial arts from koei-kan karate-do to kickboxing to collegiate wrestling. There is not one person most of all himself would actually think that this maybe his last ride. This is what he is up against when he faces off with Wandelai Silvia who maybe on his last leg to stand on as well.

Liddell first surfaced on UFC 17 by earning a decision victory over a boxer named Noe Hernandez,since then such as all athletes he has had his share of victories and defeats; not many others can actually say that they rode a wave of star studded popularity. That is where it all stops because After being knocked out by an old foe in Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in May, Liddell looked to rebound in the main event of September’s UFC 76 but lost a decision to a heavy underdog in Keith Jardine.

This is a fight that should of been made about five years ago but as with the politics of things in competitive sports the fight never happened. Here is how they stack up aginst one another.Liddell was scoring knockout after knockout against the UFC’s best, Silva was doing the same. When Liddell scored two KO’s over hall-of-famer Randy Couture, cementing his own legacy, Silva did the same to Kazushi Sakuraba—not twice but three times,both have lost two of their last three in convincing fashion.It will be an interesting match for as long as it lasts. The first one to land one of those barbaric right hands wins this fight. When you have two strikers facing off somebody is going to sleep.Here is a video of some of his best KO's.

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