{"id":276626,"date":"2018-05-17T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=276626"},"modified":"2018-05-17T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:02:45","slug":"odds-tito-ortiz-opens-as-favorite-over-chuck-liddell-ahead-of-potential-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chuck-liddell\/odds-tito-ortiz-opens-as-favorite-over-chuck-liddell-ahead-of-potential-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds | Tito Ortiz opens as favorite over Chuck Liddell ahead of potential rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, former UFC light heavyweight champ Chuck Liddell confirmed what we&#8217;ve all suspected for so long: <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chuck-liddell\/chuck-liddell-confirms-he-will-fight-again-eyes-showdown-with-jon-jones\/\">he&#8217;s coming back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Liddell dropped this bomb on The MMA Hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will fight again,\u201d he told host Ariel Helwani on the show.<\/p>\n<p>The expectation, of course, is that Liddell will rematch his former rival Tito Ortiz in his comeback fight \u2014 potentially in Oscar De La Hoya&#8217;s new mixed martial arts promotion.\u00a0While this rematch certainly isn&#8217;t officially just yet, odds for this potential trilogy fight have already been released. And though Liddell won the pair&#8217;s first two fights \u2014 emphatically, in fact \u2014 he&#8217;s been pegged as the underdog in a potential third fight with Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p>The Sportsbook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bovada.lv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bovada<\/a> has identified Liddell as a +160 underdog, while Ortiz has been pegged as a -200 favorite. This essentially means that a successful $100 bet on Liddell would earn you $160, while a successful $200 bet on Ortiz would earn you $100.<\/p>\n<p>While Ortiz seems to be the most likely opponent for Chuck Liddell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chuck-liddell\/mma-veteran-phil-baroni-gives-interesting-take-on-chuck-liddells-comeback-its-not-up-to-you\/\">controversial<\/a> comeback fight, Liddell admitted on The MMA Hour that his comeback doesn&#8217;t hinge on Ortiz&#8217;s involvement.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zgf3h0\">&#8220;I kinda hadn\u2019t really thought about it much,&#8221; Liddell said of his comeback. &#8220;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<p>\u201cIt does not hinge on Tito\u2019s participation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Chuck Liddell can pick up a win in his comeback fight?<\/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 5\/16\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, former UFC light heavyweight champ Chuck Liddell confirmed what we&#8217;ve all suspected for so long: he&#8217;s coming back. Liddell dropped this bomb on The MMA Hour. \u201cI will fight again,\u201d he told host Ariel Helwani on the show. 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