Dana White Adamant That Chuck Liddell Is Retired

Post #1 » by **Headliner** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:45 pm

Dana, From Insidefighting.com:

“Chuck Liddell is stupid rich. Chuck Liddell is done. He’s got nothing left to prove. He’s the most famous guy on Earth. I love him like a f***ing brother and I don’t want to see him get hurt. There is no reason for it. He’s f***ing 40 years old man. These guys that are fighting now are young, explosive, fast f***ing kids who are well rounded mixed martial artists. There’s no f***ing reason for Chuck Liddell to be out there at 40 years old still fighting. I don’t want to make a f***ing nickel off that ever. Believe me, it will be a f***ing war if he tries not to retire, believe me. I love him. He helped me build this business. We started when he was making five hundred and five hundred. And we had the dream of him becoming a big star and winning the title and making all kinds of money. We did it all man. We f***ing did it all. We did it. We did it. It’s f***ing over. He’s 40 years old, it is over. It was amazing that he was able to fight until he was 40. That’s what a bad motherf***er he was. He has nothing to prove to anybody, period. It’s over. We did everything that we set out to do. It has been an amazing run, its been fun. We did it together, we stayed loyal to each other the whole time and we did everything that we hoped to do and now its over. He can do it financially. And plus, I’m going to bring him into the organization in some other way and he’s still going to make money. He’s been loyal to me and I’ve been loyal to him and that’s not going to change now that he’s retiring. He’ll always be a part of the organization. He’ll take on another role, he’ll still make money and he’ll be with me until the day we die…. I always say is that I’ve built this business using the blueprint of boxing, what not to do. We know that you shouldn’t be fighting past your prime, you know?”

Cammo101 · Post #2 » by **Cammo101** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:57 pm

I heart The Iceman.

2009NBAChamps · Post #3 » by **2009NBAChamps** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:21 pm

I think he's kind of going overboard with this stuff.

We get the message... he's past his prime, financially set and still in one piece healthwise.

BUT if Chuck wants to fight (for whatever reason), who is Dana to say no? I think the fact he's doing all of this is kind of an insult to Chuck and although I doubt he would, if Chuck wanted to spite him and go against his wishes, what are the odds Chuck goes to Strikeforce? Possible rematch with Tito? lol

Post #4 » by **CPT** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:36 pm

I know he should be done, but I think we'll see him again.

Maybe a double retirement fight with Randy, or Coleman or something.

Maybe they will have him coach TUF again and build that up as his last fight. If Randy loses to Nog, it would kind of make sense to have both of them coach one more time, fight each other, and then retire. I don't even know if that's something I'd want to see, I could just see it happening.

...or he really could just be done.