No Longer Just a ‘Tune-Up,’ Chuck Liddell Motivated to Hurt Tito Ortiz

By MMAEdition on Mar 31, 2010 with Comments 0

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Having already twice defeated his longtime rival, Chuck Liddell initially viewed his upcoming fight against Tito Ortiz in June as a tune-up fight, but all it took was one week for Ortiz to make it personal again.

“Most of the animosity towards him was gone,” Liddell said on Monday’s The Ultimate Fighter 11 conference call. “I mean, I don’t really deal with him at all, so I was kind of over it. But within a week he motivated me to want to try to hurt him and continued to do it throughout the show.

“He kind of avoided me once he found out I was pissed at him,” Liddell continued. ” … and I am going to hurt him.”

No Longer Just a ‘Tune-Up,’ Chuck Liddell Motivated to Hurt Tito Ortiz originally appeared on MMA Fighting on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:20:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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