Prime Chuck Liddell vs current top 10 LHWs

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  1. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1. Cormier
    2. Gus
    3. Oedzemir
    4. Teixeira
    5. Manuwa
    6. OSP
    7. Shogun
    8. Cirkunov
    9. Latifi
    10. Anderson

    Good chance Chuck runs the table, Gus might be the only one I'd give 50/50 odds.
     
    ForemanJab, Dec 22, 2017
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  2. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    He beats them all except for Cormier and Gus. Looks like a retirement home now....
     
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  3. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Chuck ate wrestlers for breakfast, the version of Liddell that fixed his cardio issues would be a nightmare matchup for DC imo. Gus would be a bad matchup but he might power through him like Rumble managed to.
     
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  4. outtieDrake

    outtieDrake Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Anderson beats him.
     
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  5. mirkofilipovic

    mirkofilipovic ESB Management Full Member

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    Anderson Silva gets knocked out at 205.
     
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  6. The Akbar One

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    Prime Chuck, wouldn't beat Cormier. I haven't seen much of Oedzemir. I think Liddell would beat Teixeira, Manuwa, the current Shogun, and probably Gustofferson.
     
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  7. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Cormier would need to take Chuck down and keep him there to win, that would be a tall order.
     
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  8. The Akbar One

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    Na it wouldn't. Cormier has taken heavyweights down. What makes you think Chuck could stop the take down? Didn't Rampage get Chuck down, and beat him to a pulp?
     
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  9. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He was winning that fight until he gassed out. After that he started taking his training seriously and didn't have more cardio problems. Chuck is capable of stuffing some of Cormier's TD attempts. He was also adept at scrambling back to his feet and using the cage to "wall walk". If the fight stays standing for extended periods of time, one of Chuck's bombs could easily put Cormier out.
     
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  10. lufcrazy

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    Naturally I think the best chance if beating Chuck is DC, but then again Chuck dominated every grappler he ever faced.

    It was only Rampage who was ever really able to beat him in his prime.

    That being said DC is a good striker in his own right, as a HW he out struck everyone he faced.

    Id say DC is the only man who should be a favourite over Chuck, but I wouldn't over look Gus neither.
     
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  11. The Akbar One

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    :lol: Come on man, I like Chuck, but he was not winning the fight. Maybe you could argue he won the first 30 seconds to a minute, before Rampage landed that Sonny Liston type jab that immediately put the mouse under Chuck's eye, and got the crowds approval. It was competitive, but turned into a beatdown.

    Rampage ended up making Chuck his *****. Chuck cried out in agony at the 16:21 mark, from a hard body shot, and his corner is like "you ok" hell naw he wasn't okay. Page was turning his insides into mashed potatoes with those body shots. Chuck probably had a ruptured spleen, ruptured pancreas, ruptured kidneys. smh.

    [url]https://www.mma-core.com/videos/Rampage_Jackson_vs_Chuck_Liddell_1_No_Commentary_Fight_Crowd_Noise/10119083[/url]
     
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  12. lufcrazy

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    Rampage proves beyond all doubt he was superior to Liddell, that's one fight that cannot be debated.
     
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  13. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    And Page was 3rd to Shogun and Wanderlei as far as Pride goes. Just one of many examples that goes to show that Pride was more talent rich than the UFC, contrary to the claims made by revisionists.
     
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  14. lufcrazy

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    There is no doubt whatsoever that Pride had a stronger HW and LHW division than UFC. MW, WW and LHW were stronger in UFC imo.

    Liddell would have lost to Wandy and Rua any time during the two Page fights.
     
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  15. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Maybe. What we do know is that a past prime Wanderlei got beaten senseless by an even more past prime Liddell.
     
    ForemanJab, Dec 24, 2017
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