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Originally Posted by thecoylewis
You have to remember, that's Chuck's point of view. There are always 2 sides to a story and Chuck has become just as bad, if not worse for bad mouthing fighters. Plus, Chuck is a Dana puppet. Chucks dvd "Ultimate Iceman" was more about smearing Tito than it was uplifting Chuck. I do hate how much Tito talked trash in the past but it seems like he mellowed out lately with all of that. Tito isn't the same as he was when he would laugh at a fighter at a press conference. I think he's matured alot since early days. And I don't agree with Dana and Chuck's assessment that Tito dodged Chuck for all those years. It's BS, in my opinion. I think it was more a contract dispute with the UFC that took him away when he was supposed to fight Chuck more than it was that Tito was scared of him. And Tito is one of those guys who doesn't want to fight someone that he considers his friend much the way Anderson Silva is. Tito has said that he wouldn't fight Rampage even if it was for the title because of their relationship. (For the record, Rampage would smash Tito).
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Yeah I know there are two sides and Tito kept saying that he wouldn't fight a friend, blah blah blah. But in hearing from Chuck about it, they weren't friends, not even close. They trained a little bit together, and that was it. They hardly trained together was the other thing. Tito made it sound like him and Chuck ran a gym the way he described their friendship, and I got the complete opposite idea when I read Chuck's book. So even with that I still went to the middle ground and side a little more with Chuck than Tito.
Tito has matured, just look at the way he conducted himself on The Apprentice. But he hasn't matured as a fighter. We (the forum) have dogged Liddell for not changing up his training etc. But Tito has been the same thing for the past 5 fights win or lose - "Im in the best shape of my life" prefight, then post fight, "I had a insert injury going into this fight". I want the old Tito to come back - the trash talking, pick you up and slam you, then elbow you from your closed guard till the ref stops it. But I think he might be gone.