{"id":291362,"date":"2018-11-14T06:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=291362"},"modified":"2018-11-14T06:46:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:46:06","slug":"chuck-liddell-responds-to-criticisms-of-training-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/golden-boy-promotions\/chuck-liddell-responds-to-criticisms-of-training-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Liddell responds to criticisms of training footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 24, former UFC light heavyweight champs Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz will step into the cage together for a third time. In the buildup to this fight, we&#8217;ve seen snippets of both men&#8217;s preparations. Unfortunately, the footage we&#8217;ve seen of the 48-year-old Liddell&#8217;s training has generated quite a bit of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpU0xxEHLWJ\/<\/p>\n<p>In the eyes of many fans and commenters, Chuck Liddell looks like a shell of his former self in this footage. Liddell has heard these criticisms, and has a simple response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey put out a video of me warming up my legs right when I got to the gym,\u201d he said at his open workout in West Hollywood on Tuesday (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/11\/chuck-liddell-challenges-critics-training-footage-take-kicks-tito-ortiz-trilogy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a>). \u201cI don\u2019t know why they would \u2013\u00a0out of all the video they took \u2013 why they would choose to put that out, I have no idea. I challenge anyone talking trash about it to take one of those kicks I was throwing anyway. They\u2019re not that soft. I was just warming up my legs the way I like to do it. I was just warming up my legs, so it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, Chuck Liddell really doesn&#8217;t care what people think. He maintains that he&#8217;s not doing this for praise or attention or even money. He&#8217;s doing it because he loves it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing that I can do that I like better than this,\u201d He said. \u201cI still make good money. I saved a lot of money. I\u2019ve still got a lot of my money. I\u2019m doing just fine. But there\u2019s nothing I enjoy more than being in the ring and fighting. This came up, and I jumped at it, I took a shot at it. I\u2019m so happy I did because I haven\u2019t been this alive in years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Chuck Liddell will look when he steps into the cage with Tito Ortiz on November 24?<\/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 11\/14\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 24, former UFC light heavyweight champs Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz will step into the cage together for a third time. In the buildup to this fight, we&#8217;ve seen snippets of both men&#8217;s preparations. Unfortunately, the footage we&#8217;ve seen of the 48-year-old Liddell&#8217;s training has generated quite a bit of controversy. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpU0xxEHLWJ\/ In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":291364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10252,39626,10188],"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>Chuck Liddell responds to criticisms of training footage | 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\/golden-boy-promotions\/chuck-liddell-responds-to-criticisms-of-training-footage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chuck Liddell responds to criticisms of training footage | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On November 24, former UFC light heavyweight champs Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz will step into the cage together for a third time. 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