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OfflineBody: Chuck Liddell responds to Kimbo Slice's latest warning
by MMAjunkie. com Staff on Apr 28, 2008 at 12:49 pm ET
The back-and-forth media battle between EliteXC heavyweight Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson and former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell just entered round three.
Liddell struck first when he said a checkered past of beating up a "bunch of guys on the street" is the only reason for Ferguson's popularity. In a YouTube video response, Ferguson warned that Liddell is "only creating a monster" who's going to zip Liddell's mouth shut for good.
Liddell struck back over the weekend during an interview with the Dallas-based "Rear Naked Radio" radio show and again questioned Ferguson's body of work.
"All I said is fight to someone real," Liddell said. "The only guy he lost to in his street-fight things came into the UFC and lost. Fight a guy that is real and fight a guy... who has a few wins in MMA, and then talk about it.
"
Liddell was referencing Sean Gannon, a former Boston police officer who answered Ferguson's open call for opponents to fight in bare-knuckle bouts. The chaotic fight ended in victory for Gannon. The notoriety he earned from the widely distributed video earned Gannon an invitation to the UFC, where he suffered a bloody first-round TKO loss to Brandon Lee Hinkle. Gannon hasn't fought professionally since the defeat.
"Before he talks about fighting me, he might want to think about beating somebody that has a winning record," Liddell said. "He's an Internet sensation who beat up guys at Taco Bell. Come on.
How hard is that to do?"
Liddell also criticized Bo Cantrell, who was Ferguson's opponent in his second professional fight.
"That first fight they had on HDNet, he fought a guy that had been knocked out two times before in less than 30 seconds, and he tapped on his way down in [that] one," Liddell said. "That was three fights that he lost in less than 30 seconds.
How many guys do you know who's done that?
"Talk about a tomato can.
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Rear Naked Radio broadcasts Saturday night on KLLI 105.3 FM, which is part of CBS Radio. Past episodes of the show can be downloaded from iTunes.
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i agree with the iceman.
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My question is will this trash-talking actually lead to a fight?
Otherwise it's pretty pointless. Also, does Dana White want Liddell hyping up a fighter from a different promotion, which is all this is doing?
As I've said before, this could be one of the biggest fights ever in MMA purely from a marketing standpoint... They are two different weight classes though and Liddell is small for a heavyweight...
I agree with both points there Pramit,
every MMA fan in the world will be wanting to see if Kimbo is for real, and all the youtube people would be watching to see Chuck get put to sleep.
As for Chuck I have always thought he looked smaller than about 1/3 of the middle weights lol.
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I read in an interview with Wanderlie where he said he was shocked at how big Chuck actually was once he got in the ring with him. Granted, Wandie is not a big LHW, but still... he has faced a lot of guys bigger and smaller than Chuck... and to comment how surprisingly big he is was interesting to me.
And what the hell is Chuck doing even acknowledging Kimbo? A guy at Chucks level commenting on a guy like Kimbo only gives him more hype and helps Kimbo to market his fights. I agree with you Pramit... unless this fight is somehow remotely in the works, why is Chuck giving him more noteriety? Was he asked to comment on him or something? It's not like he has some new revalation about Kimbo... he is saying what everyone else knows... Kimbo has not fought anyone worth mentioning yet. So what! That's to be expected in your 3rd/4th MMA fight!!