{"id":271266,"date":"2018-02-27T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=271266"},"modified":"2018-02-27T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:09:32","slug":"video-dana-white-responds-liddell-ortiz-trilogy-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/video-dana-white-responds-liddell-ortiz-trilogy-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Dana White responds to Liddell-Ortiz trilogy buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f1WKRarzDxo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few weeks, the MMA news cycle has repeatedly featured stories about a possible third fight between aging MMA legends Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s hard to imagine this fight coming to fruition in the year 2018, both UFC Hall-of-Famers have expressed interest in it, with Ortiz even admitting <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tito-ortiz\/tito-ortiz-interested-trilogy-fight-chuck-liddell-pitched-idea-ufc\/\">he pitched the fight to the UFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"htBXKT\">\u201cI have a lot of interest level [in a fight with Liddell],\u201d Ortiz recently told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YBcxzPUnMJo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a>. \u201cActually, on New Year\u2019s, I asked the matchmakers for the UFC if they\u2019d ever want to do a Chuck Liddell-Tito Ortiz III and he kind of looked at me and laughed and said, \u2018Chuck couldn\u2019t pass to fight again. He\u2019s been knocked out, unconscious, five times.\u2019 I guarantee you the doctor won\u2019t give him a license.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"oDCtrW\">\u201cI don\u2019t know why I wouldn\u2019t be [approved],\u201d Liddell <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tito-ortiz\/chuck-liddell-believes-hed-approved-fight-tito-ortiz-doubts-ortiz-will-accept-1\/\">responded<\/a> in his own chat with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/02\/21\/chuck-liddell-tito-ortiz-health-doctors-clear-ufc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve had medical exams for my mountain climbing show and I cleared with everything there so I should be just fine. We\u2019ll have to see. If they don\u2019t clear me, I\u2019d be shocked. They\u2019ve cleared a lot of people in a lot less shape than I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Liddell and Ortiz would appear to be on board with this fight, however, it won&#8217;t be happening in the UFC. Dana White shut that possibility down in a conversation with TMZ.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fgqcg8\">&#8220;No,\u201d White said flat-out of the UFC promoting this trilogy bout (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2018\/2\/27\/17056302\/ufc-dana-white-chuck-liddell-tito-ortiz-trilogy-refuses-old-mma-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BloodyElbow<\/a>). \u201cChuck\u2019s almost 50 years old. I love Chuck Liddell, but 50-year-olds shouldn\u2019t be fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"p9RqCp\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t do that fight. I love the guy. I love Chuck Liddell, I love him. As a friend, I don\u2019t think he should fight. And anybody around him who cares about him shouldn\u2019t let him fight either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Dana White and the UFC won&#8217;t be promoting a third fight between Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, the verdict is still out on Bellator, where Ortiz spent the last chapter of his career&#8230;<\/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 2\/27\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, the MMA news cycle has repeatedly featured stories about a possible third fight between aging MMA legends Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. 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