Who is going to win saturday night- tito ortiz or chuck liddell? Best answer on the web
The ONLY way Ortiz will beat Liiddell is if he can "ground and pound" on Liddell's face. But when was the last time you've seen Liddell lying on the mat?
The Huntington Beach Bad Boy isn't going to be much of a "bad boy" on Saturday Night.
Tito can survive in Chuck's standup world longer than most people can (assuming nothing weird like eye gouges etc).
Chuck's success is all about preventing takedowns, and he's brilliant at that; the few times he's taken down, he's brilliant at finding ways to stand up again.
However...Tito has shown he's not just a G&P gorilla. He's shown he's a tactician. He knows all about Chuck, he will have a great game plan...that is, if Tito loses, it will be because of execution (or thumb in the eye type weirdness), NOT because he didn't know what to do in there.
Tito is good enough and strong enough to force at least some of the fight to happen in his world, on the ground. I think Tito's advantage over Chuck there is greater than Chuck's standup advantage over Tito.
In short...Tito can survive in Chuck's world for quite a while, but Chuck can't survive for long in Tito's world. And Tito will damage him in both worlds.
I say Tito.
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