Kelly- Nope. Chuck is awesome and will go down in history as a legend, but his days on top of the LHW division are like a Marine’s days of finger-banging Mary Jane Rotten Crotch in her pretty pink panties…they’re OVER (that’s a Full Metal Jacket quote). Liddell is doomed by his own loyalty, like the band that continued to play as the Titanic sunk. He’s super-loyal to his trainer John Hackelman and his gym, The Pit in San Luis Obispo which he’ll never leave and is why he’ll continue to lose. Hackelman has taken Liddell as far as he can as a trainer so Chuck has become stagnant and predictable. His game hasn’t evolved in years because it hasn’t had to. He knocked everyone out so successfully that he never had to change gameplans. But now he’s lost three of his last four fights and Rashad Evans’ knockout proved that he can be deciphered and defeated. Unless he changes training camps or severely alters his tactics, I think we’ll continue to be depressed by the sight of The Iceman laying face down in the middle of the octagon.

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