The MMA Digest

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In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, Dana White commented on Chuck Liddell’s fight with Keith Jardine as well as the future of “The Iceman.” White noted:

I have to be honest, [you should] understand that Chuck Liddell is one of my best friends. Coming up with Chuck Liddell in the last nine-ten years, Chuck Liddell was always a guy who loved to fight. Didn’t care about money, didn’t care about his opponent, although he always only wanted to fight the best — he just loved to fight.

The Chuck Liddell that I saw fight didn’t look like the Chuck Liddell that loves to fight. I think Chuck is in a place right now where he needs to find himself, but it’s like Rocky III. You know, when he has all the fame, and he needs to go back and find the old Chuck Liddell, the guy that used to love to fight. We need to bring him back. I think Chuck’s life has become very complicated and it’s always going to be like that now. He has a lot of money and he’s very famous. But he can still be rich and famous and be the old Chuck Liddell. He needs to find himself.