{"id":276508,"date":"2018-05-15T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=276508"},"modified":"2018-05-15T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T18:43:13","slug":"mma-veteran-phil-baroni-gives-interesting-take-on-chuck-liddells-comeback-its-not-up-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chuck-liddell\/mma-veteran-phil-baroni-gives-interesting-take-on-chuck-liddells-comeback-its-not-up-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA veteran Phil Baroni gives interesting take on Chuck Liddell’s comeback: It’s not up to you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon, on the latest edition of The MMA Hour<\/a>, 48-year-old MMA legend Chuck Liddell confirmed what we’ve long suspected: After eight years of retirement, he will be returning to the cage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will fight again,\u201d Liddell said, point blank, on the show (transcribed by MMA Fighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Liddell, who is expected to fight his former rival Tito Ortiz in his comeback fight, says the reason for his comeback is that he simply misses fighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss it. I never stopped missing it,” he said. “And I kinda hadn\u2019t really thought about it much. And then when [Ortiz] brought it up and we started getting going, and I started training and I started doing stuff again, getting ready to try to take this on, it made me go, \u2018You know what, what if he pulls out? Am I not going to fight? Am I going to do all of this and not fight?\u2019 Oh no, we had to have somebody backing up, and if it doesn\u2019t work out with him, I\u2019m [still] going to give it a shot. It\u2019ll be somebody else, one of the guys from my past probably, most likely, and we\u2019ll see where I\u2019m at.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the wake of Liddell’s comeback declaration, many members of the MMA community have voiced their disappointment with his choice to return, sharing worries about his health.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the opinion of Phil Baroni, an MMA veteran of Liddell’s vintage, however, it’s none of our business what Liddell does. Baroni, who recently returned to competition after a lengthy hiatus of his own, gave his take on the Liddell news on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Your not a fighter. Your not Chuck. It\u2019s not up 2 you. People prob told Chuck not to be a cage fighter his whole life.Worry about yourself. It\u2019s America if Chuck wants to fight let him fight. Fighters Fight https:\/\/t.co\/XNXoE7FZnJ<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/TUixpTDdky<\/a><\/p>\n

— phil baroni (@philbaroni) May 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n