Although he all but handed Chuck Liddell a gold watch following the former UFC light heavyweight champion’s devastating TKO loss at the hands of Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, UFC president Dana White took a step back from the retirement talk on Saturday night… sort of.
At the UFC 97 post-fight press conference, following the Liddell’s loss to Shogun, White stated, “At the end of the day, I care about these guys. I don’t want to see anybody stick around too long. You’re never going to see Chuck Liddell on the canvas again.”
The loss was Liddell’s fourth in his last five starts, three of those losses by way of knockout or TKO, after all.
During the telecast for The Ultimate Fighter Team U.S.A. vs. Team U.K. Finale, White was asked about Liddell’s pending retirement, to which he answered, “I’m not his father, he can do whatever the hell he wants to do. I’m his friend and I care about him a lot, and I’d never like to see him fight again.”
White backs off Liddell retirement – sort of
Although he all but handed Chuck Liddell a gold watch following the former UFC light heavyweight champion’s devastating TKO loss at the hands of Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, UFC president Dana White took a step back from the retirement talk on Saturday night… sort of. At the UFC 97 post-fight press conference, following the Liddell’s loss…
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