Chuck Liddell Wins UFC 62 Crown In 95 Seconds With TKO of Sobral

Chuck Liddell UFC 62 ChampionChuck Liddell winner of UFC 62 Ultimate Fighting Championship with TKO of Renato Sobral. There had been talk on the part of Chuck Liddell’s opponent that so much had changed in the nearly four years since their last matchup in 2002, that it would be a grave mistake to expect a similar result.

Renato Sobral had entered his rematch with the UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship’s light heavyweight champion last night on a 10-match winning streak, but walked away from the Octagon in the same fashion as Liddell’s previous five opponents — the victim of a brutal knockout.

With the sort of relentless punching display that has carried him to the apex of his sport, Chuck Liddell scored a technical knockout over Renato Sobral just 1 minute 35 seconds into the first round to retain his title at UFC 62 Ultimate Fighting Championship at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

“I don’t change my style for anybody,” Liddell said. “They’re trying to figure out how to beat me. They have to improve. I have one way of fighting: I’m going to come after you, put hands on you and knock you out.” 

UFC Chuck Liddell was responsible for Sobral’s only other knockout loss of his career, when he delivered a thunderous kick to the head that stopped the Brazilian midway through the opening round of their first UFC match in November 2002. Renato Sobral had called it a momentary lapse that he left himself exposed to a striker of Chuck Liddell’s stature, and vowed not to let history repeat itself.

UFC 62 Ultimate Fighting ChampionshipBut the plan collapsed as soon as UFC 62 Ultimate Fighting Championship Sobral charged in on Liddell in the opening Ultimate Fighting Challenge minute last night, only to absorb a crisp right hand that sent him flying into the cage. Liddell followed with another combination that planted Sobral on the canvas.

With Sobral dazed and desperately trying to defend himself on the ground, Liddell continued with an onslaught of punches before referee John McCarthy stepped in to stop the fight.

“I thought it would take a little longer for him to come after me,” Chuck Liddell said. “I hurt him with a jab early and he didn’t really like that so he came after me with a big overhand. He must have thought he hurt me and then I hit him with that right.”

In the co-main event of UFC 62 Ultimate Fighting Challenge, light heavyweight Forrest Griffin defeated Stephan Bonnar by unanimous decision.

On the undercard, heavyweight Cheick Kongo knocked out Christian Wellisch in the first round; lightweight Hermes Franca defeated Jamie Varner via third-round submission; and welterweight Nick Diaz defeated Josh Neer via third-round submission.

Source: The Washington Post

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Chuck Liddell wins UFC 62 Ultimate Fighting Championship Crown in 95 seconds with TKO of Sobral.

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