Liddell fighting in March, NOT Couture or Silva.

I hope Liddell gives us a few more great fights in his next few years. Maybe a climb back to the top but I doubt it with the stacked LHW division. Id love to see it happen though..

Thank GOD. I did not want to see Chuck/Randy IV at all. Wonder who it'll be though?

He's definitely going to have time enough to train hard, focus on expanding his gameplan, and work at closing up the gaps in his defense.

I hope he does so.

My one major knock on the Iceman isn't that he's a douche or past his prime or an arrogant prick or anything.

My one major complaint about Chuck is that he insists on being a largely one-note power puncher in the age of the MMA all-rounder super-extraordinaire.

While I don't see him busting out any gogoplata's or flying heel hooks anytime soon, I'd love to see a well-balanced Chuck that can end his remaining years with dignity and some good wins.

There's hope yet for Chuck; I just hope he's willing to acknowledge his weaknesses and start to branch out in his gameplan.

That said, just because Lidell says he hasn't been approached about Randy or Anderson doesn't mean they won't approach him. Both are still a possibility, though I've voiced in separate topics that I really wouldn't enjoy seeing either fight.

I was sceptical of the reports in the first place, but I don't think Dana would even think of making any fourth fight, between anybody. He has stated several times that its 3 and out, that determines the man.

I would really prefer to see Chuck move up to heavyweight, only after he fights Shogun Rua, however. I think Chuck is the guy that can hit Rua's off switch and put him down. After that, I'd like to see Chuck move to heavyweight and fight the guys up there.

It might just be me, but I think Chuck could handle Mir and knock him out in the first round. Based on his recent performaces, I think he could knock Big Nog out, too. I know it sounds outlandish, but if you're a true fan, you know that this guy we've seen isn't the Nogueira we saw in PRIDE, taking fool's arms home as trophies. He was dropped by Heath Herring and Tim Sylvia, and I believe Chuck packs more of a punch than both of them.

I'd love to see Liddell/Gonzaga, and I'm confident Chuck could win that, too. And if my ideas panned out, those three wins alone would easily earn Chuck a shot at Lesnar for the title, in a super fight I'd die to see.

No doubt, my friend. It's definitely hurt my fanboy-o-meter to see some of the UFC's most famous faces from "The Old Guard" struggle to step it up in today's era of fighting styles so hybrid you can't even really define them along strict combat lines anymore.

If Iceman or Matt have proved anything, it's that no matter how awesome you excel at one aspect of the fight game, someone that's good at a whole bunch of aspects can get the drop on you.

'Twas a time where all Lidell needed to be the most dominant guy in the UFC was good takedown defense and solid hands. Now he's 1-3 in his last four.

Hughes could outwrestle people half-asleep with one arm tied behind his back and another clutching a Bible that he was in the process of yelling scripture from, and now he's 1-3 in his last four as well.

Times certainly are a'changin' if one of the heaviest hitters in UFC history can get knocked out so horrendously that people were seriously questioning whether he crapped himself, while the only "dream match" with any relevance left for one of the best wrestlers in UFC history is against Matt F'ing Serra.

LMFAO.

I too think Nog looks about 10 years older than he did in PRIDE. Not only by his physical appearance but by how much slower he moves. His punches at the beginning of round 1 look like the punches of a normal heavyweight in round number 5. He has an iron chin and phenomenal jiu jitsu...but I feel people give Nog a lot more credit for his stand-up than he deserves. He was about two seconds away from being stopped in the fight against Herring, if Herring wasn't such a dumb f*** letting him get up he would have won by tko. I am a Nogueira fan so I don't want it to sound like I'm bashing him.. I'm just saying what I have seen from him in the UFC thus far.

If he loses this fight, he's in the doghouse. He used to be one of the biggest names in MMA, and now he's just slipping.

If your argument is that Nog is getting closer and closer to being stopped simply by eating too many shots regardless of whether he's actually KO'd or not and Chuck could be the guy to do that to him, then I actually will agree. I'm just not ready to accept the phrase "I think he could knock big nog out too." That implies that Chuck is going to just lay Nog the out and put him to sleep, which I don't see happening even by some of the hardest hitting HEAVYweights. But, Nog is losing a bit of his stride here and there and although his boxing in terms of actually throwing crisp punches is good, his head movement is atrocious.

Nog is not going to be stopped by being legit knocked out, but if he ever is stopped on a TKO it'll be a situation where he's simply taking too many shots in a row and they have to stop it, even if he's lucid.