UFC 88: Chuck Liddell vs Rashad Evans main event likely

Do we really want to see this fight. There are so many other great fights that can be setup?

nooooo!!!!!!

i want to see chuck vs shogun, damn it!!!

Pretty much the easiest stepping stone for a title shot for chuck.

Would have much prefered to see Chuck vs Shogun.

This is a bad matchup for Rashad, he won’t be able to secure the takedown and Chuck will dominate the standup.

This leads me to wonder who’s next for Shogun… Machida anyone?

Shogun should be ready by NYE … and Chuck pulled the September and NYE show last yr so its still possible

what the hell happened to that so called big announcement that was supposed to take place yesterday. the one dana kept quiet even from his employees. sure to God it wasn’t the toy dolls that they talked about earlier this week

I agree with the rest of ya’ll, this is a bad fight for rashad. Yes, his stand up has improved, but improving from a wrestlers standup is not hard, and if Rashad plans on bangin’ with chuck he is in for a very painful night. Besides Couture and Rampage, chuck is as close to “impossible” to take down as it gets. I definitely am seriously excited about a shogun/liddell fight, but as Nick J pointed out, could we see Shogun/Machida? That would be such an awesome fight as well. Either way, I’m definitely stoked!

i feel like i’ve already seen this

I agree with much of what’s been said.

Hey, what happened to the mind blowing surprise Dana had for us this Thursday? Don’t tell me that it in fact was the action figure deal!

I think with Shogun coming off such a serious injury they may give him a tune up fight first like with Sokoudjou whose been talking a lot of trash. I know they hyped Shogun as one of the best LHW’s in the world. so they might want to show him smashing someone to the casual fans, who may not know him ,except for his Forrest Griffen. performance and that hardly shows the true Shogun.

I’d like a Wanderlei Machida fight.

Stop talking about Anderson Silva fighting Chuck Liddell, what the hell is wrong with him dominating middleweight for years??? The other divisions have great champions. Middleweight has one too, why mess that up?

I dont agree with some of the posts about this fight, i think it is a good match up! its a big test for the young rashad, and a massive opportunity to stake his claim to be one of the top 205s. If chuck wins, which i think is likely then a fight against the winner of machida vs shogun for the number one contender slot would be awesome.
 
a fight against shogun for machida would be a big test . i want to see him push the pace a little and stop fighting so strategically, he needs to start fighting to kill (the fight) instead of fighting for the win, otherwise he will never be a star and make the big dolla.

long live chuck

and good luck forest

Main Event? BS!

let rashad get knocked out by tiagio silva so chuck can fight machida for title shot

so many better matchups…and what a waste to see one of my favorite fighters have to take on another TUF contestant and hopefully not lose this time….

What a pussy. Please dont tell me you deserve a title shot after this. Fight a top contender then maybe. Politics, politics………..

Chuck will get a title shot after he knocks Evans out and even if it goes the distance somehow Liddell will get the decision….i agree Liddell should fight someone bigger however i want Evans to get his ass kicked at the same time…

Im not super excited about it, but I can’t argue with this matchup. All undefeated fighters eventually have to have that marquis matchup that proves whether or not they belong at the elite level, and this is that fight for Rashad. I can’t see Chuck fighting Shogun in December though. Shogun will have been on the shelf for a long time by that point, and most casual fans aren’t all that interested in him. The UFC will give him a couple fights he can win to build his name before they put him in with a top notch guy like Chuck. I think Lyoto already has the Page/Forest winner, a bonus thank you from Dana for making Tito look outclassed in his last fight.

I wish they would redo Irvin vs Evans, I really liked that match up. Then have Liddell fight Tiago Silva, Machida or Soku. IMO Liddell vs Evans is the worst choice of possible match ups.

matt hammil should be ready to fight around 88, he could fight rashad or soko or something?

They should match up irvin vs evans, wandy vs shogun, chuck vs machida that would set up some great fights

fukin bullshit……. got me all excited and hyped up with chuck’s fight… rashad evans? common

Rashad by a brutal GnP

Give me Wandy Chuck 2, Chuck vs Anderson Silva, or Chuck Jardine 2.

i know u will all hate on me cause u all love over-rated chuck but how much u wanna bet when him and dana were laying in bed talking bout who he should fight thiago silvas name didn’t come up,,cause they both know chuck wouldnt see round 2 vs thiago…hey chuck way to take on a joke u over-rated bum why not jus fight jason lambert or elvis sinosic

I love this fight.

Rashad deserves more credit than he gets here. He won the TITO FIGHT easily and the judges scored it a draw.

He destroyed Stephan Bonner and Brad Imes and somehow still came away with split decisions.

Rashad likes to stand and trade and so does CHUCK. Rashad has good wrestling and Chuck has superior take down defense.

The main advantage here is CHUCK has KNOCKOUT POWER. Sure RASHAD kick Salmon’s head off but I haven’t seen the knockout power in his hands yet.

I would like to see Lidell vs. Shogun, Machida vs. Thiago, Rashad vs. Wander and Soko vs. Irvin. Then have Bonner fight Houston instead of ravishing red.

Shogun re-injured his knee (the one that he had surgery) on, so who knows, when Shogun will be back.

I am taking Evans in this fight. I think he will execute his game plan, of leg kicks then takedowns.

Remember Rashad Evans and Keith Jardine are best friends, and they train together at the same camp underneath the Greg Jackson Submission Fighting banner. This is a tough match up for Liddell.

Its a very weak main event.I’m thinking Anderson Silva vs Okami might be a co-main event.Surely its time for another Anderson beat down.

Rashad will be knocked out. Save your 44.95 for gas or groceries. :)

The more fights for Chucky the better keep him active. I think alot of the pride stars suffered when they went from fights every 2 months to fighting every 4-8.

i think thiago silva and machida should fight

This is a pretty weak main event, especially so soon after the shitty 85 card. Personally I don’t think a show is a show without a championship fight. And with 5 champions, I can’t really understand why they have trouble booking one title fight per month. Really, its TUF champion-coach situation that makes it this way.

If they put Silva/Okami on this card, I think that would make it satisfactory. Even another Machida fight (I’d rather not wait 6 months to see him fight again) would be good, especially if they put him against Thiago Silva.

silva vs okami is in oct in england

and for dec super card, there never has been one

if anything lidell vs shogun and
mir vs big nog
with maybe a serra vs hughes if we are lucky

this fight sucked before chuck got injured and wait….
it still sucks

weak main event??? way better den 85’s main event.

Chuck love’s to fight, and I love to watch him fight. I say bring it on, and I can’t wait to see it.

weak……….

 SHOGUN WHERE ARE YOU???

I heard a rumor a while back that Dana White has Chuck nights..I guess he sits in his bed in his Chuck Lidell PJ’s, and watches his DVD’s of past fights….It gets stranger though….He eats a lot of ice cream, chocolate and has his butler ink a fake tatoo on the side of his dome…Strange. with that said, I can’t stand Rashad and can’t wait till Chuck rips of Shad’s arm and beats himself senseless with it…

Well im not ogna say much for the chuck vs rashad matchup since rashads a dead man walkin, especially since hes an obsitcale between the title and chuck. but yea, machida vs chuck would be good. i think chuck would win it. machidas great, but chucks different then a lot of the fighters machidas faced. tito bull charges, thats a fact, and machida counters. it works well. but when u have somone like chuck who can go offensive and put people away OR stay defensive and put people away, and knows when to switch between the two, u have a powerful enemy. and chuck wont tap out from a submisison (or at least thats what his one submisison loss showed.) i fully respect that machida is gona be a nasty guy at 205 someday, i think he should fight somone else first before wandy or chuck. like give him hendo or somthing. i personally think before a fighter can transform into a monster, they need to taste defeat. all the best have. once u lose and finally see somone thats better than u, one of two things always happen. you look at it and start getting worse and worse and will never be the same, or (in the case of chuck, gsp, anderson silva, etc) you ocme back with more fire to get back at what u want and truly become the best.

Chucks a pussy huh? So knocking out tito,randy and sobral 2 times and horn,mezger and overeem and randleman makes u a pussy?
And beating monson,belfort and bustamante 2 boot..oh yea and beating wandy makes u a bitch 2 right?? The guy doesn’t duck people,only fight he ever asked 4 was his horn rematch and his ufc 40 renato fight 2 stay in shape(that alone makes u a tough as nails sob) so please unless u could whoop his ass shut the hell up.

I’ve been saying for nearly a year now that Rashad Evans would knockout Chuck liddell…now i finally get to see it…..Randy Couture said it best himself…Randy said Chuck would never have the skills to beat a man like Rampage or Rashad…Couture has trained with Evans and Randy said Rashad would beat Chuck with ease…EVANS Has the better boxing skills and he’s the much better wrestler…Chuck has a history of coming into fights out of shape…He throws a few punches and moves around…Rampage was able to catch him clean and knock him out…I can tell you this…Rampage is NO WHERE close to being as fast or as explosive as Rashad…This will be a very bad fight for Chuck…Evans by brutal Knockout in the second round….I don’t see any one in the light Heavy division beating Rashad….You guys are really hating on Rashad..and to say Evans doesn’t have knockout power…Just ask the fella’s whose tasted his fists…Brad Imes was getting knocked down all over the place and everyone knows Liddell has ABSOLUTELY NO CHIN and i think Chucks power is VERY OVERRATED…Hell he couldn’t even knockout Glass Jaw Jardine….Chuck always gets caught in fights…Rampage caught him and Jardine as slow as Keith punches…He was able to catch Chuck and drop him….Rashad Evans is very explosive and i’m gonna say he’s the most explosive fighter chuck has ever had to face…Rashad is gonna seriously hurt Chuck and this will be the end of Liddell’s career….People who say Rashad can’t take chuck down…should look at what Ramapage and Randy couture was able to do to chuck….Randy said it best…..when he said Evans would be champion in about 2 years…Time has come and Rashad is gonna destroy chuck…just you wait and see..

I would kinda like to see a anderson silva chuck fight. It would be stand up no doubt. But the thing is, the more i watch fights, people try to beat anerson at stuff he does or is good at doing. He is a reletivly orthodox striker, and he beats mostly other orthodox strikers. Your not going to beat silva at somthing he does just as well. What i think chuck has is somthing threatning to silva. the truth is silva hasnt fought too many guys with extremely heavy hands. He also hasnt fought guys who are unorthodox strikers. Chuck is a long, lanky guy, like silva. Chucks hands r, no doubt, some of the best in MMA. And Where as anderson silva IMO is the best striker with and ORTHODOX style (his Muy thai is pretty orthodox,) chuck is the best Striker in an UNORTHODOX style. Silvas good everywhere, thats a fact. The way u oculd beat him is not doing somthing beter than he does, but doing it differently and equally as good as he does. Chuck throws punches from any and every angle. Chucks knocked guys out without having to throw his whole power into it. Silva looks like his chin is overly tough. I think it be a great fight personally. As for the rashad fight, no wrestler (save rampage, but hes mor eof a brawler,) has beat chuck since he lost to corture. I doubt an average wrestler who wins most of his fights by split decision is going to beat somone like liddell. And dont expect rashad to head kick liddell.