Chuck Liddell Going to Fight Again
Dana White and Chuck Liddell enjoyed a relationship which extended far across piece of work in the one-time fighter'south UFC heyday.
Both men, now in their 50s and a large reason for the roaring success of mixed martial arts, had a lot of fun building the house that is the Ultimate Fighting Title.
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Before Boston-native White assumed presidency of the UFC, he managed a host of acme fighters, including Liddell too equally Tito Ortiz.
Alongside childhood friend Lorenzo Fertitta, he somewhen bought the company in 2001 for just $2million, with the promotion sold for a whopping $iv.2billion in 2016.
Still, his friendship with Liddell remained tight throughout the entirety of his ascent to the top of the combat sports world and was forged during the early on years of the UFC when both men could bout the US and not go stopped by adoring fans.
And the two had a lot of fun, with White even once accidentally walking into Liddell's hotel room later on a night in which the fighter had invited a lot of 'company' back at that place for a party.
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That craziness aside, Liddell recalled some other incident in his autobiography, Iceman, which the 2 men shared during the early on years of the Fertitta-White ownership when they sought to drive back up for the burgeoning organisation, past whatsoever means possible.
"Those get-go few years no one knew us on the East Declension," he wrote. "I toured Ibiza, Spain, with Dana and was stopped every five feet.
"But in Boston or New York or Philly, I was just some guy with a Mohawk people crossed the street to avoid. I night nosotros went out after a twenty-four hours of pushing the UFC and wound upwards at our hotel at around 2 in the forenoon.
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"It was a fancy place, not the kind of articulation where you'd try to take someone down in the antechamber. Just the basement, that'due south another story.
"While I went straight back to my room that night, Dana got into a conversation with 1 of the hotel security guards, who wanted to know what was up with Dana's buddy with the tattoo on his head.
"Dana told him I was a UFC fighter. The guy's first response was 'This is all crap. None of that stuff is real.'
"Dana answered, 'I've got v yard in my pocket and I guarantee that you tin't concluding five minutes with Chuck Liddell.' The guy took the bet.
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"Then Dana chosen me down into the antechamber. He told me he had v grand riding on me to beat the crap out of this hotel security baby-sit, who used to be a high schoolhouse wrestler.
"I had two minutes to make him tap out. Anything less, and Dana was out v thousand bucks.
"Within a few minutes a large portion of the hotel staff were in the lobby of this four-star hotel at two in the morning time to see the ultimate fighter accept on the hotel security baby-sit.
Dana White walked in on Chuck Liddell having an orgy after knocking out Tito Ortiz
"It was similar the one-time days of Vale Tudo fighting in Brazil – we were all part of the circus, just looking to entertain the masses, make a few bucks, and win a few fans.
"And, in less than 2 minutes, just as Dana asked, it was over.
"Earlier the guard could make a real move, I put him in a neck crank that was so trigger-happy he started yelling, 'I can't see, I can't see'. I let him get and he was writhing in pain on the ground, Subsequently Dana and I went out for cannoli.
"Dana saw the guy the adjacent day and he looked to be in so much pain Dana felt bad and gave the guy some money anyway.
"Part of him of him probably did it then nosotros didn't go sued."
For a man now worth a reported $500m, that presumably seems like a lifetime ago. White at present places 'small-scale' $100,000 bets on things like Canelo Alvarez to crush Caleb Plant.
He knows what he's doing as he picked upwards a tidy $40,000 by predicting the legendary Mexican would win via knockout, which he did – in the 11th round.
White was even seen watching the super-middleweight bout at the same time as Rose Namajunas vs Weili Zhang at UFC 268 to check on his bet.
Source: https://talksport.com/sport/mma/785661/ufc-dana-white-won-bet-chuck-liddell-hotel-security-guard-canelo/
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