Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Interview with Chuck Liddell; talks about Fedor, Crocop, Randy Couture

A guy at Sherdog's forum talked with Chuck Liddell on February 7th.

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Interviewer: Would you ever move up to HW?
Chuck Liddell: "I could", I want to fight Fedor [Emelianenko].

Interviewer: I heard this in an interview a while back, and you said you want to fight Cro Cop, how do you match up?"
Chuck Liddell: I think I could knock Fedor out. He "lacks standup KO power", and I could keep it on my feet.

Interviewer: and CC [Mirko CroCop]?
Chuck Liddell: I think I match up good with him. He came here and lost. If that "tomato can" (speaking of Eddie Sanchez, this made everyone laugh. He didn't know his name until I told him) would have threw straight rights, he would have won. Cro Cop just circled left the whole fight.

Interviewer: (I can't remember the question, but I asked about Fedor's legacy)
Chuck Liddell: "What legacy. Who has he beat?"

Interviewer: CC and Nog (Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira), but thats about it. Now he fights cans, like Hong Man Choi, who he can armbar in round 1, but the Japanese fans like those fights.
Chuck Liddell: Like his last fight. Those fights dont interest me.

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Interviewer: What's your take on the whole Randy [Couture] and Dana [White] thing?
Chuck Liddell: Randy called Lorenzo a liar, and anyone who knows Lorenzo, knows he is straight forward, honest, business man. Some people don't like Dana, but Lorenzo is straight forward. He said he wasn't getting paid fair, but he was proved to be lying when we had a copy of the check. He went about the situation wrong.

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Read the whole interview - it's quite interesting.

2 comments:

Mohammed said...

yeah saw this and other stuff on sherdog. basically am avoiding anything fedor related on the forums now.

Just want Fedor to go to UFC and ruin everyone. This whole M1 thing was so disappointing, now guys like Chuck and Tim Sylvia are talking shit. They know they wont fight Fedor.

Reading Liddel is like reading a joke. Cro-cop would beat him, let alone Fedor.

please Vadim & others, Just sign with the UFC already

Mikko Vedru - Editor-in-Chief of Russian MMA said...

I have insider's info from M-1 camp and will post it a little later. Nothing is lost yet.

I totally feel you man!.. I also wish that Fedor would go to the UFC and own Randy and others in the cage (because owning them in the ring "wouldn't prove anything").