Chuck Liddell is before my UFC time as I only watched boxing then. But I've seen a lot of stuff retroactively and I get sad Chuck vibes from Tony. I wish him well but hope someone makes him stop.
A sherdogger who hasn't watched MMA since UFC 1 in 1993 on a rented VHS tape? Ye, Right. <[analyzed}>
Chuck's descent into loserdom was particularly tough to watch, because much like Tony, he was only losing to top guys, and was the favorite to win ever single one of his UFC fights since the second Randy Couture fight (except for Wanderlei, it was common knowledge that Silva was a match-up for the Iceman so the Axe Murderer was the favorite in that one, the only one Chuck won, weirdly)...
and in some cases like his last fight againt
Ace Franklin (ah shit forgot then remembered the third Tito fight

), he was looking good before he lost and even had friggin'
ABS
That was 13 years ago? Fuck we're old
Anyway, Chuck looked sharp as fuck, great striking, movements and takedowns, and he even broke Franklin's arm! Who knows if he would have been able to continue had they made it to the second round, right?
But with just 8 seconds left in the round, this happened =>
So, as hard as it is to believe 13 years later, at the time lots of fans wanted Chuck to get one last UFC bout "just to make sure"

, much like a decent chunk of Sherdog believes that it's ok to let Tony hand in the UFC and fight boxers like Bobby Green...
Yup, the Sexyama treatment.
Yeah well, Sexyama took part in the Sakuraba and Shibata treatments and friggin' greased against mummy Saku, so I'm not too broken up about it... well, I don't want to seem cold, and...
... it might seem hypocritical since Aoki also took part in the Saku pillaging (at least he had the good sense of looking super guilty after the fight was over, tearing up and all), but I was probably the only one here rooting for Aoki againt Sexy last yeah, for all the good it did
Anyway, I'm not a Tony fan, I usually root for his opponents... I think it started during the Werdum incident where I just found Tony insufferable and would have love to see Werdum punt his midget ass over the fence...
BUT
For Ferguson's good, I think getting out of the UFC and fighting... well I was going to say cans, but even in Bellator and the PFL they have some good LWs, and Tony will insist on fighting their top guys only, so I'm not sure where he'd be the safest?
I don't want the dude to end up on BKFC against Datsik, or pull a Bigfoot Silva and get a whoop-ass tour in every possible way (kickboxing, regular boxing, bare-knuckle boxing, MMA) <{chips}>
Oh well, no use mulling over it, as a Sakuraba fanboy I've worried enough about my favorite fighter getting his own 5 losses in a row... at least he had a renaissance in
QUINTET where he couldn't get hit no more, but still it hurt so much at the time...