Filed under: UFC, NewsChuck Liddell, Rich Franklin and the rest of the UFC 115 competitors all made weight Friday at the General Motors Place in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Headliners Liddell and Franklin both registered on the scale at 205 pounds.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/GoodMorningTexas)
Gone are the days of seeing Chuck all hopped up on "NyQuil" rambling on about fighting Tommy Morrison and Vernon "Tiger" White on morning television. "The Iceman" has reinv…
(Video courtesy of YouTube/GoodMorningTexas)
Gone are the days of seeing Chuck all hopped up on "NyQuil" rambling on about fighting Tommy Morrison and Vernon "Tiger" White on morning television. "The Iceman" has reinvented himself physically for his fight with Rich Franklin tomorrow night in Vancouver at UFC 115, which means night clubs and pharmacies have taken a hit beyond what the recession dealt them.
Feel free to rewatch the video, reminisce about this bizarre moment in MMA history and talk amongst yourselves until the stream of the weigh-ins goes live tonight at 7pm ET.
As always, the link to the UFC media player is after the jump
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In retrospect, maybe Dana White jumped the gun.
When the UFC president stood up in front of the media after UFC 97 last April and declared that his old friend and employee Chuck Liddell was done fighting forever after his TKO loss to…
When the UFC president stood up in front of the media after UFC 97 last April and declared that his old friend and employee Chuck Liddell was done fighting forever after his TKO loss to “Shogun” Rua, it’s possible he was overestimating his own ability to make life choices for other people.
You can see how that might be a problem for a powerful man like White. Most of the time, when he makes a statement about a fighter’s career the mere fact of him saying it out loud is enough to make it so. If he wanted Liddell to hang up the gloves and turn his focus toward spending the mountain of money he’d already earned with his fists, then that’s what would happen.
Filed under: UFC Former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell, former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin and UFC President Dana White will all meet the press on Thursday for the UFC 115 pre-fight press conference, and if you can’t be there …
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell, former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin and UFC President Dana White will all meet the press on Thursday for the UFC 115 pre-fight press conference, and if you can’t be there in person in Vancouver you can watch it live right here at MMAFighting.com.
Of particular interest at this press conference will be how the local media treat the UFC: This is the promotion’s first show in Vancouver, and not everyone is happy that MMA is coming to town.
The press conference starts at 3PM ET and the video is below.
Filed under: UFC, NewsWith the local media focused on insurance issues that threatened to derail UFC 115 from coming to Vancouver, the event’s pre-fight press conference became largely an exercise in education about the process of moving to a new marke…
With the local media focused on insurance issues that threatened to derail UFC 115 from coming to Vancouver, the event’s pre-fight press conference became largely an exercise in education about the process of moving to a new market.
Barry, making his first appearance in a co-main event, voiced his excitement and nervousness at the opportunity while gushing over the prospect of facing the legendary Croatian knockout artist.
Filed under: UFCMore than a year after he lost a fight that UFC fans were told would be his last, Chuck Liddell is back on Saturday night against Rich Franklin, who stepped in on short notice to fill Tito Ortiz’s place both as a coach on The Ultimate F…
More than a year after he lost a fight that UFC fans were told would be his last, Chuck Liddell is back on Saturday night against Rich Franklin, who stepped in on short notice to fill Tito Ortiz‘s place both as a coach on The Ultimate Fighter and in the main event at UFC 115 in the season-ending fight between the coaches.
So does Liddell still have anything left? Or is the most popular fighter in the history of the UFC about to lose again? We weigh in on that and more in our full preview and predictions below.