Joe Rogan on Downsides of Chuck Liddell’s Lifelong ‘Marauder’ Fight Style

Following Chuck Liddell’s loss to Tito Ortiz, Joe Rogan spoke about Liddell’s style being his downfall…

On Chuck Liddell Getting KO’d Again: “When you see Chuck go out on his shield, something about it to me, I don’t like seeing it. I definitely would’ve like it if he didn’t get knocked out again. But one thing I would like young fighters to see is there’s consequences to choices in terms of how you approach these exchanges and how you fight. I’m of the belief that you should fight the correct way. Don’t fight the way that pleases your boss or the crowd. Fight the way you’re supposed too with your skills, and win by knockout when you can. But don’t get knocked out because you’re trying to win by knockout and you overextending yourself and overexposing yourself. That’s not wise. I think part of fighting has to be wise.

On Chuck Liddell’s Lifelong ‘Marauder’ Fight Style:“It’s exciting enough. It’s wild and crazy enough. But everybody wants every second of it to be filled with blood and the crowd cheering and they’re not. How many times have we seen fights and there’s just a lull in the action and people start clinching and they start booing? You see it all the time. He was just a marauder,” Rogan said. “You could hit him the face with a (expletive) crowbar and he would just spit metal out. He didn’t give a (expletive). He was so badass back in the day. There’s a right way to fight and a wrong way to fight and one of the things about seeing Chuck go out on his shield like that, it’s like, this is the bed he made,” Rogan said. “This is his style.”