MMA Thread

[Reavant]

Originally Posted by Rob Pride doesn't count in the UFC though even though they own it. No way are they gonna build Rampage as a guy who lost twice to Silva.

Originally Posted by Kris P Lettus They did it with Liddell/Rampage though.. The built upm that fight based on Chuck losing to Rampage in Pride.. But I guess at the time alot of casual (American) MMA fans didn't really know who Rampage was so, I dunno..

I was going to say the exact same thing. Plus even the casual fans are going to realize that rampage is 0-2 against wanderlei. When they were hyping silva and liddel, they were showing clips of rampage getting beat down by silva and they hyped the match as the guy that beat rampage twice.

[The CyNick]

Originally Posted by Reavant I was going to say the exact same thing. Plus even the casual fans are going to realize that rampage is 0-2 against wanderlei. When they were hyping silva and liddel, they were showing clips of rampage getting beat down by silva and they hyped the match as the guy that beat rampage twice.

Its wierd how they do it. They will not totally ignore the history from Pride, but they tell the story that suits their purposes.

For example, when talking about Liddell-Jackson, you only really hear about the UFC 71 fight, you dont hear them say "and now Jackson is 2-0 against Liddell".

However, I would bet if they do Liddell-Jackson 3, they will play up the fact that this is huge for Liddell because he's had two loses in his career to Jackson in the Countdown show. But on the commercials to the mass audience, they will just talk about Jackson taking Liddell's title, not the backstory from Pride days.

Then, if Liddell wins that third fight, and they want to sell a rubber match (UFC), the Pride fight will be largely forgotten.