Tito vs Chuck: Just Let It Go

The fight game probably more than any other sport spits you out when you slip by even the smallest of margins. Fighters like Ronda Rousey when she was seemingly at the peak of her powers, in the blink of an eye saw her career nosedive in spectacular fashion.

As fighters get older the more miles they put on the clock the end is never far away, each punch absorbed brings the end ever closer. Some accept it, some clearly don’t or can’t accept it, until the fists of a younger fresher opponent finally knocks reality into them.

Fighters do what it says on the tin, they fight it’s what they do, it’s who they are, but some undoubtedly need protecting from themselves.

Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell will meet for a 3rd time at The Forum in Inglewood, California, on Nov. 24 in a trilogy fight that is not needed and arguably shouldn’t be happening.

Liddell won their two previous meetings when their rivalry was must see and now a 3rd fight all these years later personally I would rather not see.

Ortiz 43, last fought in January last year and does have some recent form, winning 3 out of his last 4 fights, Liddell however, is a completely different case.

The former UFC light heavyweight champion now 48 hasn’t fought since 2010 and left the sport on the back of 3 stoppage defeats.

Golden Boy Promotions have decided this fight is their way to enter the world of MMA. With all the current stars of the sport tied up to the UFC, Bellator or other established MMA promotions options are limited for Golden Boy, but is promoting this fight morally right.

I don’t blame the fighters, as I say it’s what they do, when they were touting the fight around the UFC and others didn’t want the fight, and for good reason.

I don’t know what I feel sadder about, the fact that Golden Boy are promoting it, the fact that it’s been sanctioned or that people will actually buy the PPV.

Money will be made, but I wonder at what cost, specifically to Ortiz and Liddell, they don’t call it the hurt business for nothing, all concerned should remember that.