#3 Chuck’s Desire To Fight Tito
It was the storyline that nearly driven the UFC into the standard around a year prior to the principal period of TUF ever broadcast – the tale of two companions who had as far as anyone knows framed a settlement that implied they had never fought, just a single of them chose to break that agreement, and some way or another found that most of fans were favoring him, not against him. We are talking, obviously, about Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell.
The story started in the beginning of the Zuffa-drove UFC, when Ortiz was the greatest star in the organization and the dominant Light-Heavyweight champion, while Liddell was Ortiz’s preparation accomplice and one of the best up-and-comers in the load class. The two had as far as anyone knows concurred not to battle, but rather Liddell was on such a hot run, to the point that a title shot was difficult to deny him.
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Ortiz as far as concerns him felt totally deceived by the possibility that Liddell was happy to battle him, while Liddell just played down the kinship and asserted they were only fighting accomplices, and he had generally shown signs of improvement of Ortiz in those competing sessions.
At the point when Tito chose to decline the battle, the fans promptly favored Liddell, feeling that Ortiz was dodging his previous companion and never truly thinking about that Tito could have been genuine in his emotions. In the end – after the ill will at long last bubbled over – the two men battled, with Liddell winning by first-round knockout.
The ax wasn’t covered, notwithstanding, and even after Liddell beat his previous companion on a second event two years after the fact, a third battle was arranged in 2010 preceding Ortiz pulled back referring to back damage.
As far as anyone knows, Chuck and Tito have now made up and are on great terms once more, however it’s difficult to tell given the two men are solidly in glad retirement nowadays.
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It is a story that is extremely dubious to pass judgment on who was totally morally justified – you get the inclination that the reality of the situation was some place in the center, yet from Ortiz’s perspective, it was a tremendous selling out.
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