UFC Chuck Liddell vs Tito Ortiz 3 Fight Live Streaming Free PPV Light heavyweight match will be kickoff USA, Saturday 24 November 2018 online, 09:00 pm (ET) and its broadcast on Channel Seven, Foxtell, FB.
Boxing powerhouse Golden Boy Promotions makes its first foray into mixed martial arts (MMA) MMA this Saturday night (Nov. 24, 2018) with a FITE.TV pay-per-view (PPV) headlined by a trilogy match between former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions — and old school rivals — Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. Fellow UFC vets Gleison Tibau, Tom Lawlor, and Efrain Escudero are set to appear on the six-fight main card as well. The PPV will run you $40 unless you take advantage of its Black Friday deal, which cuts the price in half (details).
There are a handful of sports where “legend matches” are appealing, and the most athletically demanding among them is tennis. Maybe basketball if it’s one-on-one and both players have appropriate knee protection.
Unfortunately, people keep trying to make them a thing in combat sports.
Liddell is 1-5 with four knockout losses in his last six fights and hasn’t fought in eight years. Ortiz is less than two years removed from his last bout, a submission of Chael Sonnen, but was 1-7-1 before his current 3-1 run, which saw him beat two Middleweights and an overcooked Stephan Bonnar. Liddell is 48, Ortiz 43.
The most baffling thing about this is that it won’t even be entertaining. These guys are a decade-plus removed from their primes. But, my job is to analyze ... criticizing is just a bonus.
Ortiz may be shot, but he still knows how to wrestle and his top control is as potent as ever. It’s just that he’s too slow and ungainly to set up his takedowns against people who aren’t twenty pounds smaller than him or pushing 50. Liddell, on the other hand, has lost everything that made him great; the speed’s gone, the durability’s gone, and while power’s the last thing to go, it’s hard to generate concussive force when you punch like you’re wading through molasses.
Ortiz can still do what he’s good at, albeit in a reduced state, and figures to be the less spent of the two by a fair margin. Expect a couple of slow-motion exchanges before Ortiz takes him down and taps him in a hurry.
If you are choosing to remain skeptical about Liddell's decision making, you aren't alone. While Liddell-Ortiz III brings enough name value and remaining hostility between fighters to coax some nostalgic interest, it's a fight that both UFC and even Bellator MMA -- which has promoted the last four fights of the 43-year-old Ortiz -- wanted nothing to do with.
Instead, the pair of legends and former UFC light heavyweight champions will meet on pay-per-view at The Forum in Inglewood, California (9 p.m. ET), under the banner of boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy banner, which makes its debut in MMA.
Skeptics remain abound regarding how well the fight will actually sell considering the poor undercard and not-so-stellar public performances by De La Hoya in promotion of the fight. That's not even taking into account the combined age of the two fighters (91) and the fact that Liddell has looked every bit his age during various workout videos that went public ahead of the fight.
The 48-year-old Liddell (21-8), who was coaxed into retirement by UFC officials in 2010 following a trio of violent knockout losses told CBS Sports on Tuesday that his bitter rival Ortiz (19-12-1) is nothing more than a "tuneup" for bigger things.
"I wanted to get back into the game. I got interested and excited about fighting again and I needed a tuneup fight. And I needed a tuneup fight that we could sell," Liddell said. "Tito is a great tuneup fight and a great measuring stick to where I am and where my comeback is. If everything goes to plan on Saturday, I'll be ready to go and fight someone for real."
They say the last thing to go in an aging fighter is power and Liddell has twice proven already that he's capable of changing a fight against Ortiz with one punch. But outside of that "puncher's chance" in the first round, it's hard to imagine Liddell's timing or stamina will be anywhere close to how we remember him before a run of five losses in six fights beginning in 2007 ended his career.
Ortiz has fought nine times since Liddell retired (winning four of them) and has looked fairly credible during the twilight of his career amid his recent Bellator run. Should Liddell spend a large amount of the opening round on his back, it's very likely his gas tank will be emptied.
The other problem for Liddell is his punch resistance, which effectively disappeared 11 years ago following his one-punch knockout loss to Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. Ortiz has remained fairly durable in recent years and has been stopped due to strikes just twice (via ground-and-pound against Rashad Evans and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira) in the 12 fights since he last shared the cage with Liddell.
Boxing powerhouse Golden Boy Promotions makes its first foray into mixed martial arts (MMA) MMA this Saturday night (Nov. 24, 2018) with a FITE.TV pay-per-view (PPV) headlined by a trilogy match between former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions — and old school rivals — Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. Fellow UFC vets Gleison Tibau, Tom Lawlor, and Efrain Escudero are set to appear on the six-fight main card as well. The PPV will run you $40 unless you take advantage of its Black Friday deal, which cuts the price in half (details).
There are a handful of sports where “legend matches” are appealing, and the most athletically demanding among them is tennis. Maybe basketball if it’s one-on-one and both players have appropriate knee protection.
Unfortunately, people keep trying to make them a thing in combat sports.
Liddell is 1-5 with four knockout losses in his last six fights and hasn’t fought in eight years. Ortiz is less than two years removed from his last bout, a submission of Chael Sonnen, but was 1-7-1 before his current 3-1 run, which saw him beat two Middleweights and an overcooked Stephan Bonnar. Liddell is 48, Ortiz 43.
The most baffling thing about this is that it won’t even be entertaining. These guys are a decade-plus removed from their primes. But, my job is to analyze ... criticizing is just a bonus.
Ortiz may be shot, but he still knows how to wrestle and his top control is as potent as ever. It’s just that he’s too slow and ungainly to set up his takedowns against people who aren’t twenty pounds smaller than him or pushing 50. Liddell, on the other hand, has lost everything that made him great; the speed’s gone, the durability’s gone, and while power’s the last thing to go, it’s hard to generate concussive force when you punch like you’re wading through molasses.
Ortiz can still do what he’s good at, albeit in a reduced state, and figures to be the less spent of the two by a fair margin. Expect a couple of slow-motion exchanges before Ortiz takes him down and taps him in a hurry.
If you are choosing to remain skeptical about Liddell's decision making, you aren't alone. While Liddell-Ortiz III brings enough name value and remaining hostility between fighters to coax some nostalgic interest, it's a fight that both UFC and even Bellator MMA -- which has promoted the last four fights of the 43-year-old Ortiz -- wanted nothing to do with.
Instead, the pair of legends and former UFC light heavyweight champions will meet on pay-per-view at The Forum in Inglewood, California (9 p.m. ET), under the banner of boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy banner, which makes its debut in MMA.
Skeptics remain abound regarding how well the fight will actually sell considering the poor undercard and not-so-stellar public performances by De La Hoya in promotion of the fight. That's not even taking into account the combined age of the two fighters (91) and the fact that Liddell has looked every bit his age during various workout videos that went public ahead of the fight.
The 48-year-old Liddell (21-8), who was coaxed into retirement by UFC officials in 2010 following a trio of violent knockout losses told CBS Sports on Tuesday that his bitter rival Ortiz (19-12-1) is nothing more than a "tuneup" for bigger things.
"I wanted to get back into the game. I got interested and excited about fighting again and I needed a tuneup fight. And I needed a tuneup fight that we could sell," Liddell said. "Tito is a great tuneup fight and a great measuring stick to where I am and where my comeback is. If everything goes to plan on Saturday, I'll be ready to go and fight someone for real."
They say the last thing to go in an aging fighter is power and Liddell has twice proven already that he's capable of changing a fight against Ortiz with one punch. But outside of that "puncher's chance" in the first round, it's hard to imagine Liddell's timing or stamina will be anywhere close to how we remember him before a run of five losses in six fights beginning in 2007 ended his career.
Ortiz has fought nine times since Liddell retired (winning four of them) and has looked fairly credible during the twilight of his career amid his recent Bellator run. Should Liddell spend a large amount of the opening round on his back, it's very likely his gas tank will be emptied.
The other problem for Liddell is his punch resistance, which effectively disappeared 11 years ago following his one-punch knockout loss to Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. Ortiz has remained fairly durable in recent years and has been stopped due to strikes just twice (via ground-and-pound against Rashad Evans and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira) in the 12 fights since he last shared the cage with Liddell.
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