Season two heavyweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), Rashad Evans, has been tabbed to replace the injured Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and will take on former light heavyweight champion, Chuck Liddell, during the main event at UFC 85 on June 7 from the O2 Arena in London, England, according to Sherdog.com.
Evans was originally booked to take on Thiago Silva at UFC 84: “Ill Will” on May 24; however, it appears that the UFC had to shuffle the deck to ensure that the “Iceman” went up against a notable opponent.
Rua ruptured the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) in his left knee training for the bout just yesterday, leaving the promotion in a lurch because essentially all the top 205-pound fighters were matched up in other bouts.
Evans just headlined the UFC 78: “Validation” pay-per-view (PPV) event in November 2007, defeating Michael Bisping via split decision. He’s been undefeated throughout his career and has posted six wins inside the Octagon and one draw.
Liddell is still riding high after his unanimous decision win over Wanderlei Silva at UFC 79: “Nemesis” in December 2007. Prior to the win he dropped back-to-back losses to Rampage Jackson and Keith Jardine.
It’s too bad it appears we’re not going to see Evans and Silva battle it out — was looking forward to that match up. Evans has the popularity and name recognition among casual fans that more than likely led to the selection.
The former Michigan State University wrestler will certainly test the legendary Liddell sprawl and poses several different challenges than Rua. However, Liddell has more than enough time to adjust to the style change (if he even needs it) with the fight still three months out.
Of course, there’s no word on a new opponent for Silva at this time. Stay tuned.
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well at least we got an opponent. personally, not a fan of rashad’s, but if he can pull this off, he’s gets a title fight.
rashad does not really have a chance in this fight….not sure how he wins fights.
Haha….guess rashad put all ya’ll haters RIGHT in your place. Rashad is BAD
I love Chuck Liddell, Rashad Evans knocking him out doesn’t prove anything, it only takes one punch to knock someone out. Chuck didn’t get caught slippin, just Rashad Evans got caught not slippin. Chuck is still the love of my life.
Put the haters right in there place huh?? Well Rashad did nothing more than play with his nipples and dance around the ring and ABSOLUTELY got LUCKY, he waited and waited and waited and waited some more, by dancing around because he is SCARED to get hit. FACE IT if he would have “stepped up” like he said he would in alllllllllllllll of his interviews then he would have gotten beaten or knocked out, he couldnt stand one on one with liddell hence the reason he had to dance around like a little fairy until he got lucky with a wild cross. Because if you look closely liddell finally just said F**K it and threw a NASTY uppercut that would have DROPPED evans, but evans just so happened to time a wild right cross when liddell dropped his left just low enough when he shifted his weight to through that brutal uppercut. Bottom line evans needs to be on dancing with the stars not UFC, because all he does is dances around wasting time and lands a few hits just to score points on his opponent, how many people has he knocked out?????????? How many people has liddell knocked out??????? ok then, big deal. liddell will come back for his rematch and take evans rythym out of his step.
You are so right, could not have said it better myself
give chuck 2 months to retrain and i guarantee that there will be a rematch between him and rashad evans
NOOOOOOOOO NO NO just no
I wanted to see Thiago Silva fight Rashad
my 2 most hated fighters,,,i was praying thiago got to beat down either 1 of these 2 punks
i also noticed that it says:
“Evans was originally booked to take on Thiago Silva at UFC 84: “Ill Will” on May 24; however, it appears that the UFC had to shuffle the deck to ensure that the “Iceman” went up against a notable opponent.”
this is obviously applying that Silva is not a notable opponent…..very interesting. dana white must get arroused by rashad.
Oh my god they killed rashad!
It could jus be a way to put number in that Loss column for Rashad to put back in his place and out of the title picture.
I wonder why they game him rashad? Oh yeah much easier match up and a bigger name. Thaigo is like a bigger version of Wanderlie Silva, theres an article from brazil where he says he used to go toe to toe with Shogun and Wandy back in his early Chute Box days. I’l try to find it! No way Dana wants chuck to loose to much money is at stake.
Settle down..If anything happens this fight will end by decision..Rashad isn’t going to get Ko’ed, and he definately won’t KO The Iceman…Chuck is defanetly going to have to win by KO or a nice ass decision so secure his spot for a re-match with Liddell. If Rashad takes this one fashionably, i think he’s got his shot at the Title?…Or no?
[quote comment=”347517″]Settle down..If anything happens this fight will end by decision..Rashad isn’t going to get Ko’ed, and he definately won’t KO The Iceman…Chuck is defanetly going to have to win by KO or a nice ass decision so secure his spot for a re-match with Liddell. If Rashad takes this one fashionably, i think he’s got his shot at the Title?…Or no?[/quote]
Sorry, i mean’t a re-match with Rampage…
GREAT NEWS! I didn’t want Chuck to fight some unknown fighter. This will be a good match even though I wanted to see Thiago vs Rashad, too.
[quote comment=”347504″]I wanted to see Thiago Silva fight Rashad[/quote]
I agree, or even Thiago vs Chuck, but he’s not quite the marquee name yet…Well it doesn’t look like we’ll see my dream match for 08, Shogun vs Tito… This fight is obvious bc Rashad and Chuck are Dana’s boys, and next in line for a title shot in Dec.
[quote comment=”347510″]It could jus be a way to put number in that Loss column for Rashad to put back in his place and out of the title picture.[/quote]
That is exactly what this is. Keep their big ticket fighter Chuck in win coloumn and keep Rashad big…. but not too big.
That said though, this gives Rashad his chance to be true contender.
rashad doesn’t have a chance. will this be the fight that makes rashad consider the drop to 85? maybe. chuck is to big to rahsad. knock out for sure.
anybody know who thiago is gonna fight instead, or is his fight in may scrapped, i hope not. i wanna see more of him he looks like he could be serious threat.
off topic……mania any word on arlovski’s situation????
Horrible!!! Good thing it’s free…
This is bad. So very bad. I really wanted the UFC to bring Vitor back into the mix … god damn Joe Silva.
It will be interesting to see how Keith Jardine’s victory will help Rashad as they train together. In saying that, I think Chuck would smash Jardine again if they fought.
I’d rather see him fight another stand up guy like Houston Alexander… This fight with Rashad doesn’t interest me at all! But, maybe he already has something going on?
This was my first thought when i read that Shogun was out. Too bad, I think Rashad is overrated and boring.
its too bad brock lesnar would own chuckie and shad
All right, I like the the matchup. The standup vs wrestler, in thiscase, should be a good one and I’m excited to hear the news. I could see it going both ways, unless the old Chuck comes to the octagon.
Should have been Thiago vs. Chuck!
I like Rashad, but I see Chuck picking him apart.
Cool I finally get to see Rashad lose.
I mean come on, style wise Chuck is tailor made to beat someone like ol’ ‘Dry Hump’ Evans. He’ll have a hard time taking Chuck down, he won’t be able to hold him down. He has only finished two guys in his undefeated career, and one was because Salmon ducked into a kick. As long as Chuck doesn’t have a mental lapse like he did against Jardine, this is an easy win for him.
not today!! Evans had been my favorite figher since UF season 2. what yall haters got to say now?
[quote comment=”347657″]Cool I finally get to see Rashad lose.
I mean come on, style wise Chuck is tailor made to beat someone like ol’ ‘Dry Hump’ Evans. He’ll have a hard time taking Chuck down, he won’t be able to hold him down. He has only finished two guys in his undefeated career, and one was because Salmon ducked into a kick. As long as Chuck doesn’t have a mental lapse like he did against Jardine, this is an easy win for him.[/quote]
I agree. It is a perfect match up for Chuck, it’s basically like him fighting Tito again (and we all know how those fights go). Unless Chuck forgets how to defend the takedown he shouldn’t have a problem winning this fight.
[quote comment=”347507″]i also noticed that it says:
“Evans was originally booked to take on Thiago Silva at UFC 84: “Ill Will” on May 24; however, it appears that the UFC had to shuffle the deck to ensure that the “Iceman” went up against a notable opponent.”
this is obviously applying that Silva is not a notable opponent…..very interesting. dana white must get arroused by rashad.[/quote]
[quote comment=”347507″]i also noticed that it says:
“Evans was originally booked to take on Thiago Silva at UFC 84: “Ill Will” on May 24; however, it appears that the UFC had to shuffle the deck to ensure that the “Iceman” went up against a notable opponent.”
this is obviously applying that Silva is not a notable opponent…..very interesting. dana white must get arroused by rashad.[/quote]
It’s true, Thiago Silva isn’t a notable opponent. When they say “notable” they are referring to their notoriety. Since Rashad was on TUF and has had a bunch of fights in the UFC he is far more well-known than Thiago Silva.
Rashad has this one. Wrestles out a disappointing decision.
Chuck will be able to stuff the takedowns, he’ll work with the Cal Poly wrestling team to work on that. Rashad is going to be eating punches all night and I see Chuck taking this in two! I would have loved to have seen Chuck KO Shogun though!
[quote comment=”347601″]its too bad brock lesnar would own chuckie and shad[/quote]
WTF!!!there not even in the same weight class so who cares?
rashad evans, along with jon fitch, and karo parysian are fighters that i want to see get their ass K’O'eD!!
rashad evans is a punk, ill be rooting for Liddel for the first time in a long time
This is great news. I actualy like this fight better then the liddell vs. Rua.
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WOWOWOWOW!! NO WAY! Joe Silva got bribed…you gotta be kiddin me?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Rashad? Are you serious?!?!?!
thats just ridiculous thats just destroyed the whole ppv i have to watch it because of chuck but i give this ufc matchmaking call two thumbs down and a big boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
So who is Thiago gonna get now?
this fight doesn’t really make sense cause either way the winner has to wait months for a title shot, say liddell wins he has a win over an oppnet thats prolly just cracking top 5, if evans wins its a big win but he will still have to wait forever for a title shot.. if liddel wins would they give him another hsot at rampage having lost to him twice, i think lideel only has 1 title shot left.
I LOVE this fight!!! Rashad Evans is one of my picks for the future.
However I think he lacks that true (I want to kill this guy) mentality when facing his opponent. Rashad with excellent stand up and aggresive style, would be a challenge for anyone.
I’ve said for ages that to create this metamorphesis he needs to recieve a crushing (I mean really bad) defeat. I think this may be one situation where either way Evans wins.
“Then rise from the ashes like the pheonix”
I would have rather seen Rashad get exposed for an overrated fighter by Thiago Silva. Now Liddell will get a free KO win and bump his status for pretty much free. Sad, sad day.
Chuck has written the book on how to beat wrestlers. He knocks out Rashad.
[quote comment=”347836″]Chuck has written the book on how to beat wrestlers. He knocks out Rashad.[/quote]
this fight goes to split decision
[quote comment=”347505″]my 2 most hated fighters,,,i was praying thiago got to beat down either 1 of these 2 punks[/quote]
Dude, if you think Chuck sucks, you need to watch more Chuck Liddell. Look up his biography, watch his documentary, you will then come to realize not only is he a furious relentless competitor, he is a very decent nice human being. He is a real fighter, unlike Tito Ortiz, he simply loves the competition of fighting, and puts on a show and leaves it all in there every tim he fights. We are talking about a guy that ASKED to fight Babalu, who was considered one of the best 205ers on the world at the time, even though he was guaranteed a title shot at the winner of Tito and Ken. He just wanted to get in there and fight and put it all out there because hes a real fighter for the love of it. He has always fought the best the UFC had to offer in his career, and he has never ducked a single opponent. Hes a real fighter man, please show the guy some respect. dont get me wrong, I dont think Chuck is the best fighter in the world right now but he has the heart and soul of a champion and fighter and he always will, that in my mind firmly establishes the fact that he definetly deserves respect from the fans.
[quote comment=”347523″]GREAT NEWS! I didn’t want Chuck to fight some unknown fighter. This will be a good match even though I wanted to see Thiago vs Rashad, too.[/quote]
You’re kidding Shu…… You need to do your research.
Thiago WALKS through Chuck & Rashad no worries. Chuck and Rashad should be a great fight but neither of these guys are belt prospects. All due respect to Chuck of course.
[quote comment=”347818″]I would have rather seen Rashad get exposed for an overrated fighter by Thiago Silva. Now Liddell will get a free KO win and bump his status for pretty much free. Sad, sad day.[/quote]
Correct weight TB, it’s not so much sad as a let down. I was stoked to see Thiago and Machida work their magic in the next couple of months. (I’m a closet Ortiz fan too so it’s a double wammy!)
Would rather see Thiago against Chuck but oh well. Thiago needs a noteworthy fight…someone TOP 5.
[quote comment=”347981″][quote comment=”347523″]GREAT NEWS! I didn’t want Chuck to fight some unknown fighter. This will be a good match even though I wanted to see Thiago vs Rashad, too.[/quote]
You’re kidding Shu…… You need to do your research.
Thiago WALKS through Chuck & Rashad no worries. Chuck and Rashad should be a great fight but neither of these guys are belt prospects. All due respect to Chuck of course.[/quote]
Are you kidding me?? There is a whole lot of hate for Chuck at the moment, to say that Thiago ‘walks’ through him is a terrible call.
Chuck just dominated Wandy who is basically a better version of Thaigo. His counter punching suits the aggressive chute box style of fighting.
Damn boring “fight”, Chuck by anything… prolly a TKO in the first.
Well I know Shogun got injured, Shogun would’ve got a chance though, but I mean Evans… atleast Chuck will beat the crap out of him!
I hope Chuck will do a quick win out of this, the less time I’ve to watch Evans fight.
This is a fight to put money on… HUGE money, I’m not even near to be rich but the little cash I’ve got is going into a bet on Chuck… and I don’t even like Chuck as a fighter, but Evans have nothing on him.
First time that a TUF winner has fought a TUF coach.
If… When Rashad wins this he should be next in line for a title shot.
man, rashad will gonna hold down chuck to victory via desicion,
sucks!!
I would love to see Rashad, out cold. Would’ve liked to see the Rua fight more though. I’ll take what I can get.
[quote comment=”347509″]Oh my god they killed rashad![/quote]
“You bastards!”
“man, rashad will gonna hold down chuck to victory via desicion,
sucks!!”
YES, OF COUUUUUURSE DUDE…
CAUSE SOOOOOOO MANY WRESTLERS BEFORE HIM HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT. HAHA
Emanuel0523
Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:42 am Quote this comment
Oh my god they killed rashad! (FUUUUUNNY STUFF!!!)
GrahfZilla
Mar 6th, 2008 at 4:00 am Quote this comment
Chuck has written the book on how to beat wrestlers. He knocks out Rashad. (SOOOOO TRUE!!!)
This is a horrible decision! TERRIBLE! I was very much looking forward to Tiago vs. Rashad. I would rather them scratch the Liddell fight all together.
Funny how the UFC broke up the Silva/Rashad match up for Chuck, instead of the Machida/Ortiz fight.
Rashad vs. Tiago should have still taken place and they should have scratched Tito and matched up Liddell vs. Machida… Since Tito, doesnt really want to fight machida anyway, then again, neither does Chuck…..and what chuck wants chuck gets.
This match up sucks! Chuck will have a 2 foot reach advantage over Rashad, and he will just keep his distance and pick Ol’ “Suga” apart.
Too bad that Chuck and his camp want to part of Machida, because Chuck vs. Machida is the best possible match up, and that way we would still get to see Tiago vs. Rashad.
As for Tiago, If I had match making power, I would scratch Nakamura and have Tiago Silva vs. Soukoudjou!
This will be a good fight…lol@ everybody doubting Rashad…
[quote comment=”347804″]I LOVE this fight!!! Rashad Evans is one of my picks for the future.
However I think he lacks that true (I want to kill this guy) mentality when facing his opponent. Rashad with excellent stand up and aggresive style, would be a challenge for anyone.
I’ve said for ages that to create this metamorphesis he needs to recieve a crushing (I mean really bad) defeat. I think this may be one situation where either way Evans wins.
“Then rise from the ashes like the pheonix”[/quote]
I agree with this 100%. I like Rashad and I think he has some really good skills but he doesn’t have that killer instinct. I think a loss would almost be more beneficial than a win for him…although I’d love to see him win. A loss to Chuck wouldn’t set him back too far since he will be the underdog heavily in this fight. A win should set himself up for a title shot or at least a #1 contenders match with Machida if he wins.
Chuck has way too much reach on Rashad… Chucks going to win this fight, and the UFC will then un justly award Chuck another title shot against Rampage after he hurts Forrest…
Great, first news of the day and it sucks. give me something good joe silva!
[quote comment=”348063″]First time that a TUF winner has fought a TUF coach.
If… When Rashad wins this he should be next in line for a title shot.[/quote]
Forrest vs Tito
Stevenson vs Penn
Serra vs ST Pierre
and Lutter vs Franklin comin up soon
All I have to say if this is the main event it better be for free on TV..
UFC 85 or UFC 86?
You got to be fucking kidding me…
I like it - Chuck’s best fights are with guys who are primarily wrestlers (Randy, Tito, Babalu). His main skill is being to avoid a takedown in order to pick a guy apart on his fight. Basically it’s been too long since I’ve seen a Liddell knockout and I hope that’s the way this one goes.
Everyone counts Rashad out for every one of his fights so this one is no different. I’m a Rashad fan but I was really looking forward to Rashad vs Thiago and I also think that Thiago vs Silva would be more interesting of a fight because Silva has better hands. UFC had to take Rashad over Thiago for this fight only because Rashad has been in a main event before and has more name recognition to the average fan because of TUF.
This is definitely a tough fight for Rashad and will really determine whether or no he has the ability to be a top contender. Rashad has great wrestling but Chuck has an amazing sprawl so it’ll be interesting to see if Rashad can get those hooks in and pick Chuck up and slam him…I’d love to see that but it’ll be awfully tough. The reach advantage Chuck will have is going to be a problem but Rashad has fought others with long reaches before but not with the striking ability of Liddell. The big advantage that Rashad has is that he trains with Jardine who beat Chuck. I think Rashad really needs to work on the leg kicks just like Jardine did. Rashad has a solid chin so he’ll be able to take some abuse but it’ll be tough if Chuck charges in and pins him against the fence with punches. Rashad has decent hands and he’ll really have to let them go this time…not like against Bisping where he held back too much. If Rashad can get Chuck on his back then he’s really going to need to do some serious work down there to keep him down and score some points. Holding him down won’t be enough in this fight cause the takedown opportunities won’t come by too often. I’d like to see Rashad pull out a few surprises for Chuck…maybe a spinning body kick or flying heel hook…lol.
He’s going to have to fight for the win…not fight just not to lose like he has against Bisping and Tito…that won’t be enough against Chuck. Like I said before…a loss will help Rashad a lot and maybe this is the best time for him to take that loss since losing to Chuck won’t kill him in the standings too badly. I think that would take a lot of pressure off Rashad and he’d finally be able to let loose a bit more and be more aggresive. It’s win-win for Rashad but if Chuck loses…he’ll have a hellofva a climb back up that ladder.
Chuck has a lot of weapons and should be favored in this fight but don’t count out Rashad…he’s undefeated and there’s a reason for that. I know he’s not the most exciting fighter there is but he gets the job done. I hope he really lets loose this fight.
Oh yeah before I forget, lycan, if you’re reading this I guess most of us don’t really have sh*t for brains, but you do LMAO. Eat your words!
I am definitely not a fan of Rashad, but don’t count him out so quickly. His camp will have the blueprint on how to beat chuck via Keith Jardine. Chuck had a hard time connected on Keith because Keith employed lots of legs kick and did an excellent job of keeping his hands up and his chin down. Chuck just kept tagging Keith on the top of the head. Greg Jackson will make sure the Rashad’s game plan is spot on.
Rashad? If the UFC was willing to scrap a fight that was already booked, Sugar was the best that they can come up with? Huh?
I understand that out of Rashad and Thiago that Rashad gets the nod to fight in a MAIN EVENT of a PPV, seeing that he already has done so before. Meanwhile, Thiago Silva was pretty much just shown on a live broadcast for the second time. So there is no arguement from me that Rashad is the more notable opponent, however, if I had to chose which fight I’d prefer to see, I would chose Chuck vs Thiago Silva because I think it would be a much better fight.
Chuck vs Rashad should play out just like the typical Chuck Liddell fight when he was LHW champ. Chuck vs a wrestler, we’ve seen it before. Rashad is no Randy Couture, so I don’t see him beating Chuck, however, I would LOVE to see it happen.
If the UFC was willing to scarp a booked fight, I belive that Machida is the most deserving of a #1 contender fight. But like someone said, who wants to fight Machida? Definitely not Chuck. If Chuck doesn’t want to fight him, the UFC will not book it.
time for the iceman to do what he does best… Sprawl and Brawl!
[quote comment=”348263″]I am definitely not a fan of Rashad, but don’t count him out so quickly. His camp will have the blueprint on how to beat chuck via Keith Jardine. Chuck had a hard time connected on Keith because Keith employed lots of legs kick and did an excellent job of keeping his hands up and his chin down. Chuck just kept tagging Keith on the top of the head. Greg Jackson will make sure the Rashad’s game plan is spot on.[/quote]
you are right, rashad is going to kill him with leg kicks.
I think Rashad will do a lot better than people think. He has shown how versatile and technical he can be when he wants to. He has a lot of different ways to finish a fight. I said that when he fought Tito that he would be able to take Tito down, and I think he will be able to do the same to Chuck. If Rashad stops trying to win a disco dancing competition when he is in the Octogan,and actually applies his skills, then I think he could very well win the fight. He is not going to be a macho fool like Wandi was and stand up in front of Chuck to be punched at will, I am sure that he will come up with an effective strategy, the same way Jardine did. If Rashad comes to fight, and not just to survive or disco dance,this could be one of few times that we see Chuck fighting of his back. I look forward to watching this fight.
[quote comment=”348269″]Rashad? If the UFC was willing to scrap a fight that was already booked, Sugar was the best that they can come up with? Huh?
I understand that out of Rashad and Thiago that Rashad gets the nod to fight in a MAIN EVENT of a PPV, seeing that he already has done so before. Meanwhile, Thiago Silva was pretty much just shown on a live broadcast for the second time. So there is no arguement from me that Rashad is the more notable opponent, however, if I had to chose which fight I’d prefer to see, I would chose Chuck vs Thiago Silva because I think it would be a much better fight.
Chuck vs Rashad should play out just like the typical Chuck Liddell fight when he was LHW champ. Chuck vs a wrestler, we’ve seen it before. Rashad is no Randy Couture, so I don’t see him beating Chuck, however, I would LOVE to see it happen.
If the UFC was willing to scarp a booked fight, I belive that Machida is the most deserving of a #1 contender fight. But like someone said, who wants to fight Machida? Definitely not Chuck. If Chuck doesn’t want to fight him, the UFC will not book it.[/quote]
That’s the key here…Rashad has already been in a main event and has a bigger, more recognizable name than Thiago and Machida put together to the “average” fan. To those of us that follow MMA intently and are hardcore fans…we’d rather see Thiago or Machida take on Chuck. Plus we all know that Chuck had a say in this matter and probably chose Evans out of those three. I’m a little surprised that they didn’t take Jardine and put the rematch together since Chuck has said he wants revenge.
There really wasn’t much the UFC could do here. Every other LHW that’s even sniffing the top 10 is booked on or very close to that event. If they wanted to bust up a fight that’s already booked they could have had Chuck fight Machida because both can reasonably be considered title contenders, and had Rashad finally rematch Tito. Sorry Thiago, you’re still in the cold.
Man, I wanted Thiago to show Chuck some pain… I understand the marketing reasons behind putting Rashad, but if it’s worth anything from a marketing standpoint, I definitely won’t pay to see Chuck Vs. Rashad.
Does anyone know who Thiago will now fight at 84? (Which by the way, is looking more and more like the next event I’ll pay for).
Rashad is going to get destroyed. Period. He’s totally unimpressive and is not even remotely on the same level at Chuck or Rampage. What a joke.
I’ll be rooting for chuck for the first time in a long time. I hope we get a highlight reel KO by chuck in this one.
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i can see why rashad took the fight, if he wins he has to get next title shot, the dude is undefeated in the ufc, i was hoping machida would fight, and besides the ufc in may has alot of firepower it still will be a good card, i am curious who thiago silva might fight next, i wouldn’t mind watching him fight james irvin again since irvin knee popped and could not continue, maybe stephan bonner, or jason lambert. rashad is better than nothing, not as good as shogun fight but still am interested in seeing the fight i don’t see it going the distance though
out of everyone in the division they choose rashad…wow
[quote comment=”347502″]well at least we got an opponent. personally, not a fan of rashad’s, but if he can pull this off, he’s gets a title fight.
rashad does not really have a chance in this fight….not sure how he wins fights.[/quote]
…not sure how he wins fights? There’s a guy named Sean Salmon you can ask… he should be waking up any second now.
is it jason kidd vs wesley snipes?
As much as I like Chuck I bet he will loose by decision or 3rd round ko. I dont think he’ll be in great shape compared to Evans. Evans late in the fight I am guessing.
[quote comment=”348145″]This is a horrible decision! TERRIBLE! I was very much looking forward to Tiago vs. Rashad. I would rather them scratch the Liddell fight all together.
Funny how the UFC broke up the Silva/Rashad match up for Chuck, instead of the Machida/Ortiz fight.
Rashad vs. Tiago should have still taken place and they should have scratched Tito and matched up Liddell vs. Machida… Since Tito, doesnt really want to fight machida anyway, then again, neither does Chuck…..and what chuck wants chuck gets.
This match up sucks! Chuck will have a 2 foot reach advantage over Rashad, and he will just keep his distance and pick Ol’ “Suga” apart.
Too bad that Chuck and his camp want to part of Machida, because Chuck vs. Machida is the best possible match up, and that way we would still get to see Tiago vs. Rashad.
As for Tiago, If I had match making power, I would scratch Nakamura and have Tiago Silva vs. Soukoudjou![/quote]
What about Tiago Silva vs. Wilson Goveia? They were both scheduled for UFC 84 anyways!