I believe in the fight game when you're done just stay done. It's not like old timer league hockey where you can have Bobby Hull and Bobby Orr skating around giving the old time fans one last hoorah. Your health is at steak here and I don't need to see one of my all time favorites like Chuck Liddell further damage and sacrifice his body and health for my entertainment when there's no real gain in it for anybody especially him. Let's let them enjoy their post fight life and let them close that chapter of their personal history.
Great points....
I always love a healthy sirloin....
Once I heard Wanderlei saying that he wants to support an MMA event for retired/"old" professional fighters. I think it would be great, and UFC could buy this idea. Imagine how nice it would be: Fedor vs. Brock Lesner, and so on... Many fighters retire because they cannot compete with the standard level of UFC, and they prefer to retire than destroy their record and legacy, but they can still entertain with more competitive fights for them, and other rules. How about 3 rounds of 3 minutes? I guess many legends would come back from retirement just to have fun. Doesn't it sound great?
I wouldn't want to see Fedor lose now that he's totally washed up. Brock wasn't washed up, he just wasn't top dog. Prime versus Prime Fedor makes Brock his bitch. Now? Brock smashes Fedor.
Couldn't they just bypass that by having the fights in Japan or some other country that doesn't regulate that much?
Instead of only having shot legends fight other shot legends they should just be honest about how good the fighter is now and make competitive matchups for them instead of having them only fighting other former champs or contenders.