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brother, I was still sitting in the booster seat then.
You young s.o.b. Lol
brother, I was still sitting in the booster seat then.
...?? Are you too lazy to use your eyes to look at a picture? Isn't that a level of laziness even beyond being too lazy to type a description?What fucking happened? Is that Rampage knocking out Chuck? Are you too lazy to type anything?
one more year and i'll be able to drink legallyYou young s.o.b. Lol
...?? Are you too lazy to use your eyes to look at a picture? Isn't that a level of laziness even beyond being too lazy to type a description?
To be honest Dana has always tended to drink his own kool aid with his "favourites", often when they loose its actually because he bought into his own hype and put them into dangerous fights he thought they'd win.Yes, Dana was letting Chuck dictate his title opponents and have chances to take back his Ls. Dana signed Jeremy Horn after Horn hadn't been in the UFC for several years, just to let Chuck get his L back, and it happened. I suppose Dana had confidence that Chuck would get one back against Rampage, he was like a giddy schoolgirl when it came to Chuck, but it would have been necessary to adjust from the first fight. Rampage genuinely knocked out Chuck with the same right hook he threw repeatedly in their first fight, and Chuck again "didn't follow the gameplan" smh
What fucking happened? Is that Rampage knocking out Chuck? Are you too lazy to type anything?
Well, I'd seen the whooping Rampage had put on Chuck in PRIDE, so this was expected.
At the time though a lot of popular feeling was Rampage was not the same after his loses to Wand and Shogun, he'd looked quite passive in the run after that with many feeling Lindland actually beat him.
I strongly guess Dana felt the same, he thought it was a chance to get Chuck his win back, indeed I think all Chucks loses in that run were in matches he was favourite in beforehand which I think Dana booked him to win, Rashad was on a rather unimpressive run almost losing to Bisping, Shogun looked less than great vs Coleman.
While people on here like to pretend at how stacked cards used to be, the UFC 71 card was objectively laughable in how shallow it was.
72 was somehow worse.
Dude's a gambler, and has definitely rolled a snake eyes or two in his day.To be honest Dana has always tended to drink his own kool aid with his "favourites", often when they loose its actually because he bought into his own hype and put them into dangerous fights he thought they'd win.
I literally said exactly who it was, you stupid fuck.
Again though you look back at those fights post Rampage loss and Chuck was I believe the favourite in all of them, Jardine had just been blasted by Huston, Wand was coming off of massive KO loses to Crocop and Hendo, Rashad had looked not very impressive and many felt had lost to Bisping, Shogun looked out og sorts vs Coleman and many felt he was crocked after the ACL injuries, Franklin was a stand in after another Tito fight fell though. Dana was repeatedly trying to set up matches against names in questionable forum for Chuck to win but besides Wand(and even he performed decently) it kept blowing up in his face as the opponent suddenly improved in form and iced the iceman.Well, once he became champ, Chuck's mission became to avenge his losses. He got to avenge his loss to Randy at UFC 43 and take the belt from him at UFC 52, then his first title defense was against Jeremy Horn so that he could avenge his early loss at UFC 19 to him, and that just left Rampage. It's a credit to Chuck that he wanted that rematch, because Rampage was physically and stylistically his kryptonite. But Chuck was such an intense competitor, he had to get that rematch. And then after losing to Rampage, Chuck still went out there against the young lions of his day and still took on people like Wand and Shogun, who in his chinny state were dreadful match-ups for him. He was able to get that long-sought-after win against Wand, but Jardine dropped him, Rashad iced him, Shogun iced him, hell even Franklin iced him. In his earlier days, Chuck would've eaten all of their best shots for lunch and barely even noticed them. "Favorite" doesn't really matter if you don't have a chin.
As a PRIDE mark and a (at the time) Liddell hater, I jumped out of my chair at the bar and screamed in celebration.