{"id":250295,"date":"2017-09-28T06:54:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=250295"},"modified":"2017-09-28T06:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:54:56","slug":"scott-coker-updates-possible-chuck-liddell-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chuck-liddell\/scott-coker-updates-possible-chuck-liddell-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Coker updates on possible Chuck Liddell comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months, the potential comeback of MMA legend Chuck Liddell has been repeatedly been discussed. Were this potential comeback to occur, it would likely go down in the Bellator cage, rather than the UFC&#8217;s Octagon, where Liddell became a legend.<\/p>\n<p>Chael Sonnen, who has recently battled other aging legends in Tito Ortiz and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/wanderlei-silva\/wanderlei-silva-calls-for-fight-with-someone-who-wont-wrestle-him\/\">Wanderlei Silva<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chuck-liddell\/chael-sonnen-warm-up-fight-return-bellator-ufc\/\">repeatedly tried to goad Liddell into a fight<\/a>, and Liddell seems to be interested. Bellator boss Scott Coker has also seemed to have an open mind about promoting a Chuck Liddell comeback.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/09\/bellator-scott-coker-chuck-liddell-return-batter-of-tests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, however, Coker pumped the brakes on all the Liddell talk, suggesting that the 47-year-old legend would have to run a gauntlet of medical tests before any potential comeback were to occur.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI\u2019d have to talk to Viacom about it,\u201d Coker said. \u201cHe\u2019d have to go through a battery of tests, and it would be a longer process than he would be fighting in January.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve got to reach out and see if (Liddell would) like to do some fan fest stuff for us and be in the community, but that\u2019s it,\u201d Coker said. \u201cThere\u2019s no fight for him.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1.png\" alt=\"Bellator CEO Scott Coker talks Reebok\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chuck Liddell has not fought since 2010, when he was knocked out by Rich Franklin. This knockout loss was preceded by brutal knockout losses to Mauricio &#8220;Shogun&#8221; Rua and Rashad Evans. Though he won his next most recent fight, battling Wanderlei Silva to a decision in the 2007 Fight of the Year, he lost his two previous fights, giving up a decision to Keith Jardine and being KO&#8217;d by Quinton &#8220;Rampage&#8221; Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to see Chuck Liddell make a comeback? Should Bellator promote this comeback? Join the conversation in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 9\/28\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months, the potential comeback of MMA legend Chuck Liddell has been repeatedly been discussed. Were this potential comeback to occur, it would likely go down in the Bellator cage, rather than the UFC&#8217;s Octagon, where Liddell became a legend. Chael Sonnen, who has recently battled other aging legends in Tito Ortiz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":199842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10252],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scott Coker updates on possible Chuck Liddell comeback | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chuck-liddell\/scott-coker-updates-possible-chuck-liddell-comeback\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scott Coker updates on possible Chuck Liddell comeback | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the last few months, the potential comeback of MMA legend Chuck Liddell has been repeatedly been discussed. 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