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Light heavyweights: Rashad Evans (17-0-1) def. Chuck Liddell (21-6)
How: TKO, 1:51 Round 2
Key moment: Evans, after not having landed many strikes, suddenly connected with a punishing overhand right that knocked Liddell out.
Analysis: Liddell made the same mistake he made when he lost his light heavyweight belt last year to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. He went to throw an uppercut and Evans caught him with a booming overhand right. The win will zoom Evans to the top of the division and places him squarely among the UFC’s elite at 205 pounds. Liddell has lost three of his last four and there at least has to be thought if he’s come to the end of the line of a spectacular career. – Kevin Iole

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Nippy: this RE guy has been on the climb for the last while. amazing athlete. but he is being studied like u don't know.
btw: one of them bhais..Evan Tanner..died in the desert this weekend from dehydration..

I saw that, seems like Liddell was looking to get away with that uppercut, he got knock hard.

I like Rashad,he's quiet doesn't big mouth/talk shyte and does what he's there to do.
For some reason he still doesn't quite look to me as a fighter should but he gets the job done.
Neither do I like Chucky's style,the way he holds his hands and throws some weird overhand/sideway punches.

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Originally posted by cain:
I like Rashad,he's quiet doesn't big mouth/talk shyte and does what he's there to do.
For some reason he still doesn't quite look to me as a fighter should but he gets the job done.
Neither do I like Chucky's style,the way he holds his hands and throws some weird overhand/sideway punches.

rashad is primarily a wrestler, and that one of a kind super athlete. In the liddell match, he danced like a boxer. Given the psy of martial arts, I almost wonder if he was not imagining Ali.
Liddell has reached the end of his rope...those bouts do you in. All them head shots...he is not yesterday's hero. Same as Frank Shamrock who can now be felled with a touch to the head.

Check out the flying armbar. I saw Cody OX Wheeler put this move on Del Hawkins.

MMA Rumina Sato vs Charles Taylor(flying armbar)

this is unbelievable. If this guy can withstand head shots, he might be the champ soon. He is tough.