Five Rounds with Chuck Liddell

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

UFC Hall of Famer and former Light Heavyweight Champ, Chuck Liddell, shares stories about some of his biggest fights and opponents including Tito Ortiz, and his two legendary bouts with Randy Couture. Chuck explains what it means to cut weight, how he used to do it quickly (wearing plastic suits on airplanes no less), and how a single knock-out put him on the map. He has thoughts on Dana White, filming Ultimate Fighter, competing on Dancing With The Stars, and being called a “Sherman Tank.” He recounts his early days in MMA, and what it took to make the sport a household name. And he’s talking all about his brand-new podcast, “Icebreakers,” which he cohosts with comedian Adam Ray! Check it out every Monday!

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to Talk Is Jericho.
0:15.8	It's the part of Thunder and Rock and Roll and Chuck Liddell makes his talk is Jericho
0:20.1	debut today.
0:21.1	The UFC Hall of Famer and former Light Heavyweight champ is talking about some of his biggest
0:26.3	fights and opponents, including T2RT's and his two legendary belts with Randy Couture.
0:31.6	Chuck tells great stories about cutting weight back in the day in his plastic suits, how
0:36.3	he started in MMA in the first place, and the advantage he had the first time he stepped
0:41.5	into the octagon.
0:43.8	Chuck also talks about his relationship with Dana White, filming Ultimate Fighter, and
0:48.7	competing on Dancing with the Stars.
0:50.4	I know what that's all like.
0:51.8	Plus Chuck's got a brand new podcast of his own.
0:53.9	It's called Icebreakers.
0:55.4	He hosted it with comedian Adam Ray.
0:57.4	You can find it wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:59.1	You can also watch it on YouTube, new episodes out every single Monday.
1:03.9	All right, Chuck Liddell is here on Talk Is Jericho starting now.
1:09.0	The good news about the pandemic in the lockdown is there's all this technology so that we
1:19.2	can still talk and chat, but there's so many of them.
1:22.4	It's hard to figure out which one is which sometimes.
1:24.4	Chuck Liddell, we just had to figure it out ourselves.
1:28.4	Yeah, my computer crashed on weight on, because I was pan, that was a weight on a video
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