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‘In a road battle, I might win’: UFC Corridor of Famer Chuck Liddell says he’d KO ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson on the streets
Former UFC champion Chuck Liddell says that Mike Tyson would have little probability towards him in a road battle if the 2 superstars of their respective sports activities ever tangled on the streets.
Liddell’s UFC run was affected by spectacular knockouts towards the likes of Tito Ortiz and Randy Couture and the iron-fisted, mohawked slugger predicts that Tyson would endure an identical destiny if the 2 strikers ever squared up to one another with tempers frayed.
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‘The Iceman’, who turns 50 subsequent month, final fought a yr in the past when he was TKO’d within the first spherical in his third assembly with outdated rival Ortiz after he got here out of retirement to face his arch-rival greater than eight years after his final battle however regardless of having not gained an expert bout since a choice win towards Wanderlei Silva in December 2007, Liddell forecasts a fast night time in any hypothetical match-up with Tyson.
“In a road battle, I might win,” Tyson predicted to Ed Mylett on his fashionable YouTube channel.
“I imply, he’s received a puncher’s probability. He’s received an opportunity to catch me coming in. However aside from that, it’s over.”
Tyson, now 53, final fought in 2005 when he was crushed by Irish heavyweight Kevin McBride however has remained within the public eye by launching quite a few companies in addition to internet hosting the favored podcast Hotboxin’.
The previous world heavyweight champion is a famous combined martial arts fanatic and is often noticed within the firm of UFC president Dana White at battle playing cards in Las Vegas.
His enthusiasm for combined martial arts and its rivals was once more obvious just lately when heavyweight fighter Francis Ngannou claimed that Tyson had supplied to coach him ought to he ever transfer into skilled boxing.
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“My grandpa after I was a child, 19 years outdated, [would say]: ‘hey, you already know that Mike Tyson man, I do know you may beat him,’ Liddell elaborated additional.
“To me, it’s simply humorous. These days it might be good to see that’s a critical query.”
