UFC-veteranen och numera Bellator-fightern Chael Sonnen har under året försökt få till en match med Chuck Liddell, 48. Liddell har under 2017 flera gånger hintat om en återkomst till sporten han pensionerade sig från 2010 efter tre raka förluster.
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Nu uppger Sonnen att han gett hoppet om en match mot ”The Iceman”.
“Nothing,” säger Sonnen till MMA Fighting. “Dead issue. I thought that Chuck was coming back. I had good reason to believe that. He lost his job. He said he wanted to come back, then he went into the gym. This was my evidence. But I had these three pieces of evidence.”
“He played along a little bit. He looked like I foreshadowed it correctly. But sure enough, he’s not coming back. It was just some talk. So, I let it go.”
”Kan inte vara lätt att vara Chuck”
Trots att han medger att det antagligen inte blir någon match mot Liddell passar ”The American Gagster” ändå på att rikta några väl valda kommentarer mot hall-of-famern:
“That bummed me out. What I think, regardless of the way I tell the story, I think that Chuck is probably a pretty good guy. He’s gotta walk around with that haircut, looks like he lost a bet. That can’t be easy to do. … It’s not easy to be Chuck. You’re broke, you snorted all your money away. It’s not an easy to live. I don’t need me to kick him while he’s down, either. If he wanted to come back, we could agree to a match and then maybe things would be different. But I think in this setting, I wish him well,” säger Sonnen.
Sonnen går sin nästa match mot en annan UFC-veteran då han tar sig an Quinton ”Rampage” Jackson i Bellators tungviktsturnering på Bellator 192 den 20 januari 2018.
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