PRIDE: Chuck Liddell vs Alistair Overeem | August 10, 2003
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- The UFC invaded the 2003 Pride Middleweight GP by sending knockout artist Chuck 'The Iceman' Liddell as a competitive envoy into the talent-rich tournament where he collided with Dutch kickboxer 'The Demolition Man' Alistair Overeem in the quarterfinals.
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After this loss, Alistair bought some of the best protein powder available and gained 80lbs.
😂 or maybe just lots of chicken and broccoli like in Hollywood 😂
Actually it was after getting beaten up badly by Kharitonov.
HORSE MEAT
No Joke HORSE MEAT
He brought tainted Mexican Meat...worked for Canelo 😂😂😂
How did this dude go from being built like Izzy to Brock Lesnar? wtf
Chemical gym time.
Horse meat(💉)
Some really good gear & good genetics (plus he’s tall & long). His body responds really well to PEDs.
@@Bt26xActually long is harder to fill out, so impressive how huge he is now.
Gear
Liddell was never the most skilled fighter. But he was outlandishly tough, powerful, fearless, and most of all, ruthless. He was always really exciting to watch until his rapid downward spiral at the end of his career.
He was skilled
That’s that old style man… we’ll never have fights or fighters like this again. These dudes use to KO each other into next week for a daily sparring match. That shit creates monstrous fighters, but obviously isn’t sustainable
@@flowrepins6663 Yeah I agree, specifically meant "Never the most skilled." There were guys he fought who were more technical than him, whom he beat (Overeem, Bustamante, Belfort, Couture, etc), because he was willing to take risks most fighters weren't. That's just my opinion, but there's probably only a couple of fights in his entire career I haven't seen. I was a huge fan of his. He probably got me into MMA as much as anybody besides Fedor.
Well said. He is a legend for that reason
@@nathanwinsor7 u mean early CTE?
This was one of the few fights that Chuck actively wrestled in during his prime.
Yup got cracked
He got caught a few good ones, but I show younger ppl this when they dismiss Chuck, because they remember horsemeat and understand how hard it was for a LHW to fight a younger faster Alastair. I also tell them not to assume rampage just had chuck's number at this time, look at how his first match that day went: yea ppl don't know he had to fight Rampage later that SAME DAY
Edit: and who did Quinton fight, fkn Yoshida?? I can't remember but it wasn't nearly as grueling as this fight. Chuck was hurt to the body here bad.
@@exspiravit6920so what? Get a room.
Loves young dream.
That’s because he would have been out striked by Overeem had he not reverted to wrestling. He didn’t do this when he went against Tito.
Chuck was used to bigger rings in the UFC and more frantic fighters were better suited to the smaller Pride rings. In the UFC that fight would have been entirely different.
Liddell was getting pieced up and that right hand was a great equalizer. Never saw this fight. Awesome!
He wasn't getting pieced up, he just had NEVER fought someone with those mid-range knees to the body Alastair was able to reach LHW's ribs while in an exchange. That's a hard thing to train for. AO was able to do it to HW's for God's sake!! This fight hurt him to the body then he had to fight Rampage later that SAME FKN DAY. He didn't have a chance, but still tried to bang with QJ and did well until the takedown and body shots.
Edit: I got off topic. He was getting the better head punches in, but those knees made him hesitant. He was really piecing horsemeat up.
Chuck landed almost every left-hand he through in that fight
@@exspiravit6920he was getting pieced, stfu dude it's not that serious. Why the fuck u write so much on a UA-cam post anyway? Why would you argue against someone else's opinion? Dafuq does it mean to you?
Overeem only got those strikes in because it was in a pride ring as opposed to a UFC ring.
@@Art-is-craft whats your rationale for that position if u dont mind?
Wish we had something like PRIDE today, it allowed for some crazy matchups you wouldn't normally ever see.
we do! it’s called one fc
we do! it’s called one fc
@@bdgcasen229 and RIZIN.
Rizin vs bellator in Japan last year was pretty dope
PFL/bellator but UFC too scared to send their fighters cross promo
His strategy is literally eating your best shots until you’re tired
Chuck's chin was granite. Won him a lot of fights.
Rocky Balboa strategy 😅
CTE BRAIN
The Homer Simpson strategy
@@huckleberryharrison6248 Yeah it was sad to see his chin turn to glass.
The whole time I was watching this I was thinking Chuck was going to lose and lose badly. What a match.
Just when you think you know what's going on... MMA is brutal 👊💪
Prime Chuck when his chin was durable was something else.
One of the best ever.
Lmaooo
He really was a legend of the sport. He had so many great fights against elite level fighters it is actually amazing.
5 for 7 in championship fights and all his losses except 1 were to a champion caliber opponent.
Father Time an too Chuck eating hard shits like that over the year's man much respect to Chuck Liddell.
Defintely not one of the best, one of the toughest MF for sure... Big difference buddy
THE best ever. Bar none.
Wow. Can't believe I had never seen this before. Classic.
Cus you’re a casual 😂
@@martingalvez4097 YES. Jump on the bandwagon! Casual!! 😅
Oh yes, the classic Chuck Liddell overhand right from the pits of hell. The good 'ol days. Hats off to young Alistair for bringing the heat.
Exactly, that amazing overhand right after all the damage he took was amazing. My favorite Chuck Liddell fight of all time.
I love when Dana said " let's just watch and see what happens here" it's like he knew the overhand rights were getting ready to fly
Shows how tough Chuck was to find the win, tough fight for him. All heart.
No heart for Alistair as usual back in his early days in Japan
@@99Gara99 thats why he needed all those steroids. He lacked heart
I'm no fan of Alistair but is getting KO'd really an example of having no heart ?
@@stricknine8623 He landed his best shots and Chuck kept coming. Alistair was showing weakness before the KO came in. That's what's called lacking heart in combat sports.
@@Valchrist1313 No,..I understand what "lacking heart" means. It means "pulling up",...it means your will breaks under pressure easily,..ect.
But you cant possibly know with certainty that he was pulling up here. In fact, there is no evidence of it whatsoever,..he was pressing the fight while on the feet all the way up until the point that he got rocked,..He got rocked and lost his senses enough to immediately expose him to being finished.
Had he given up or cried "no more",..throwing in the towel for himself,...then YES. Otherwise, the only thing you know with certainty is that he got his a$$ beat by Chuck Liddell.
Later in Chuck's career he was easily rocked and got Ko'd as a result...Or was that just a "lack of heart"...lol
The Iceman is what got me into watching MMA, the UFC owes him a lot.
Yeah getting you to watch should been a lot more to ufc. You're there most important fan, princess
@@navjitbassi03 their*
@tymtrppr3 I apologise. It must have taken you ages to understand that message with that typo
For me it’s the opposite, him and Tito Ortiz are the reason why I initially didn’t get into the ufc. I thought they were just steroid taking, beer drinking red necks brawling. I didn’t know it was actually martial arts back then.
@@navjitbassi03did you get jealous when your sister kissed your dad?
Overeem was built like a basketball player back then
and Dana White sounded like a chipmunk back then.
A high school basketball player
He was 12 years old here
11.@@BR-ip5pz
He was built like a kickboxer, which he was
This was an eye opening match. I was a Chuck fan boy. Thought he was unbeatable till this match. This was really the first time Chuck took any damage. Alistair just couldn’t take quite as much.
Он измотал Аверима борьбой. В начале Алистар выглядел лучше в стойке...
He would've won if he didn't have such a glass jaw.
First time he took damage?? 2 months before this he was absolutely dominated and TKO'd by Randy Couture.
@@kbird9😂
@@kbird9 got dominated? Sure. Took damage like this? Naw.
What a chin Chuck had, and it's amazing how long it maintained. Alistair, such longevity and diversity. A couple legends
Man 20 years later and its still a sick fight.
Great win for chuck. Man, I miss these days. I feel like the lhw division has never been the same. Couture, lidell, tito, wanderlei, shogun, overeem, lil nog, rampage..just stacked
The best time was when all those LHW's were fighting at the same time Forrest Griffin, Machida, Jones, Thiago Silva, Rashad Evans, and Keith Jardine were all doing their thing too. 2004-2010 LHW was the greatest era of all time
@@TsuFox1The best fighting the best too.
Man Chuck Liddell used to be able to take a severe beating and keep on serving some back but you can only take so many hits like that before your chin starts to give out alone with your brain but he will always be my number one light heavy eating knees like that then able to score a knockout pride Fighting was so much more ruthless I love it
Chuck had heavy hands. I stood next to him in an elevator once. I was shocked at how big his hands and wrists were. His arms seemed freakishly long too. It was like he was born to punch people.
It's not about heavy hands but Alistair's famous glass chin and lack of roids...
He does have a glass chin but chuck still had a amazing power in his right
@@vladavasiljev You can't use lack of roids as a defense for why Alistair lost lmao
@@cjoin83Lol yeah really, if it weren't for Liddel's same "lack of steroids", he would've won quicker
He’s got such strong connection to his cro magnon ancestral genetics. Long arms, long legs, small squat torso, large hands that are disproportionate to the wrists, high fast twitch to slow twitch muscle fiber ratio. He relied too much on his toughness early on in his career. He woulda been insanely powerful if he had just tried ANY sort of guard lmao
This is before Alistair was on the gear when he was jacked against Brock Lesnar but I gotta say, Alistair has some quick ass knees
This is how you fight. Loved these guys.
Chuck knows that price fc fighters were deadly and hes been slept by a few of them
He slept Mezger and Alastair in their primes and lost to Quinton the same day AO massacred his ribs with knees. Tough as FK. Quinton had to fight like Yoshida or some other mid level. This fight is why Chuck didn't throw down I n the 2nd QJ fight, he was in his own head about it. That's how it goes though. He was never the same. Silva was never the same after Chris. Fedor wasn't right after Werdum etc..etc...
@@exspiravit6920silva wasn’t the same after Chris because his leg snapped in half in the rematch
@@exspiravit6920also Alastair and rampage fights were 3 months apart, I know it was a tournament but it wasn’t the same day
@@drham9339Lol
Overeem had the longest fukn arms I've ever seen
I miss him in the ufc 😞
Chuck before he list his chin. Wish he would have retired after beating Wanderlai. One of my all time favorite MMA fighters.
Wish he never came back at 50 with that limp...he's an og
The only thing more impressive than his chin in this fight was his liver. So many knees and punches to it.
What an amazing fight! They rarely turn out like that anymore
Makes the modern day UFC fight look like a snoozefest.
Probably my favorite era in mma. Such a great fight .
20 years ago, and I watched it live
This is Legendary Ice Man! I was there live at UFC 57. Was more of a Randy fan at the time. That sounds funny but Couture fan😅 . To see how big and devastating Overeem eventually got after this fight shows how Badass Chuck was being a Light Heavyweight Champ! 😮
10 years later and never bored of seeing this fight.
10 years? Try 20.
@@vinnyhaddad hope🙂
@@vinnyhaddaddoesn't feel like 20 yrs...
Awesome match for only 4 minutes and 15 seconds. Every fight should go this hard.
Never knew these two fought. Chuck was a beast back in the day!
Chuck fought rampage the same night and rampage went on to fight wand 20 mins later. Never ro be seen again!
@@dcarson89 SERIOUSLY?
@@leelunk8235 can't tell if this is sarcasm so.....yea
@@dcarson89 I DIDNT KNOW THEY FOUGHT TWICE THAT NIGHT..THATS WILD IF ITS TRUE
@@leelunk8235 lad go get fight pass for a month and jump into the pride gp's it's must see content
I miss pride it was way better than ufc
gay
Me too
@@Brandon-tk2rw God made Adam and eve not Adam and Steve
Liddell's style wassent ment for longevity. He just banged and swung . Was very fast and powerful and tuff . He had a great career miss seeing him
This was the greatest MMA tournament ever.
that overhead got Overeem on his guard and still rocked him.
That is Chuck Liddell!
It landed clean, never hit guard
Yeah incorrect.
True it struck right past Alistar left hand.
Srry guys
Holy shit I forget how awesome Chuck was to watch in his prime
Never forget. He’s the GOAT. My all time favorite fighter.
@@jerminator0688 I met him @ Mohegan sun casino in CT back in like 2003, he was awesome.
It's hard to believe that fight is considered an old classic already.
The Iceman!!!!
Just a couple of legends going at it! Great fight!
I miss the good ol days💔
These guys laid it all on the line, held nothing back. Congrats to BOTH of them!
During this time, Pride was loaded with LHWs with Rampage, Overeem, Rua, Silva, Lil Nog, Henderson, and Arona. I give props for Liddell participating in this event, but at best, he was in the middle of the pact fighter and nowhere near the fame and dominance he was getting at the UFC. I would have loved to see Tito in this event as well.
@@sh1t-show-supervisorovereem was 22/23 here lol. Everyone was on steroids back then 😂. Clearly overeem beat a couple guys you liked 😂
I think Tito would have done well in pride.Too bad we didn’t really get to see pride vs ufc during prime of big names. UFC favors grapplers while pride favors strikers. I do miss old days
@@sh1t-show-supervisor like your own comments too😂😂😂
@@sh1t-show-supervisor thats incredibly dumb to say, as any juice you talking about wont make you better fighter :D
@@krystofcisar469 sure it will. fighting isnt pure skill. just look at brock lesnar. dude just layed on people. his pure physical superiority beat randy couture
That was a tough match for him because he used a lot of his wrestling skills that he never usually uses
*Before "The Reem" became UbeReem! Chuck's Overhand Right was devastating.*
Good God. I shook from head to toe. Chuck has always been my favorite.
Bro what a permormance. Ive never seen this fight. After Chuck survived all those knees somehow i was screaming for the right hand. And he put him down. It felt like i was watching it live
Overeem was 14 here.
He sure looks like it. He was 23 though
Overeem was kinda beating Chuck up! Suprising.
Don't see why it's surprising. Overeem was elite.
Chuck had the best mohawk handlebar moustache combo!
Straight out of a trailer park.
That HUGE looping overhand right, the Liddell special served up.
Chucks looping overhand as he leans into it, is so iconic
I remember watching this live and everyone was surprised when we saw Alistair gas out so quick after throwing that roundhouse kick.
He got hit with about 4 right hands in a row.
@@023achilles Nope. Watch the fight again and show me the time stamp where Chuck lands "4 right hands in a row" in which Alistair then gasses. The commentators didn't see it either apparently.
This vid always reminds me of how humane Alistair is in contrast to his monster physique 💀
Yeah he looked a lot different but he never had a good chin and never had great defense when he was hurt and atrocious defense on the ground
Chuck was master at that overhand right. He would angle it and turn his fist perfectly to get through the guard. Kempo master ice man
What beautiful times. Knees!!!! Kicks!!!
It was then and only then Allistair knew he had to juice up to win big…
Overeem BEFORE performance enhancement chemicals.
Between him and butter bean they have the most brutal looping over hand right.
Good old pride days. Miss it
Alister clearly focused on weight lifting after this fight. I am sure it was just hard work
2 monstros do MMA 🇧🇷
Alistair tava só o pó da rabiola ai kkkk
Chuck was a bad boy & my favorite fighter.
Love watching Chuck Liddell
Back when Pride was the biggest MMA organization and Dana White jumped at the chance to co-promote, and they accepted to give the fans some big and exciting fights. Now Dana White refuses to co-promote with anyone and would rather counter program against any competition to try and hurt them. But yeah, he's "done so much for the sport of MMA." (-_-)
He wasn't trying to co-promote back then. He entered Chuck in that Pride tourney, confident that Chuck could win and ultimately he was trying to advertise UFC on the world MMA stage that UFC had the best fighters. It didn't work because Chuck was thoroughly dominated by Rampage in the next round. Many Pride fans still hate Dana and the UFC for buying Pride FC in 2006 and disbanding it.
No one else's fault criminals ran pride
Pride 🏳️🌈
Man Iceman what the name! My man! Lethal accuracy with the right hand
Dude was simply *LEGEND.*
Dana white have balls to go to Japan and challenge pride
Had zero to do with Dana.
@@kjvonly1356 The FK you mean. Oh, the fighters set around and said, "Hey Dana, we wanna go fight in Japan!!" LOLOL
Fk no, it was all White. Chuck explained the whole thing a million times. Yes, he had balls of steel to go to the land of the Roided out Yakuza and challenge. Promoters have a "prime" like fighters do. This was Dana's prime. This was one of a hundred decisions he made to Network and build his future brand. Yall some dumb salty mfkrs.
It's does to do with Dana he is the promoter and take the risk
@@kizzjus7550 For the UFC, the risk was minimal. Pride bore a much greater risk. What if a fighter from the smaller and poorer UFC had won the tournament? Fortunately for Nobuyuki Sakakibara, Chuck could only manage a victory over a young Overeem.
I wonder why the UFC doesn't do cross promotions these days? Are they afraid of champions from One and RIZIN?
@@piotrd7355yes, they're afraid. Dana wants nothing to do with competition, he only states that UFC has the best fighters but doesn't want to prove it.
Wow a skinny pre-horse meat, pre-Uberreem
Great fight. 2 tough skilled warriors.
Gotta love Chuck
Man Chuck is such a tough man, he should honestly just wear a United States of America flag on his back or something.
How gay would that be?
you mean "pride flag"
HOF overhand right
Seeing Overeem like this and throwing knees to stacked is crazy.
That overhand right from chuck was like a damn sledgehammer
Terrible boxers and no cardio...neither one of them
good mma boxing and cardio had yet to be invented
@thomas_walker oh yes the Golden era of boxing came along with floyd May dodge but not fight weather
@@comanchedase🌯🌮🥑
wrong. Kind of bad boxing from Overeem, Liddell had a decent adapted to MMA Boxing, in MMA it is different, but he would improve his Boxing. About cardio, only Overeem had bad cardio, he was known for it(probably weight cut). Guys like Shogun, Wanderlei Silva, Nogueira, Fedor had excellent cardio, This kind of comment is just resented to downplay a great fight, fighters and a great event. This same Overeem became Strikeforce champion, K-1 champion(largest striking promotion in the world) and UFC top contender. PRIDE was increbidly fun to watch, violent and had great fighters, fighting in the Ring is completely different from fighting in the cage, there isn't much space for lateral movement and evasion, it is about trading blows and the knees to downed opponents decrease the importance of punches.
@laaaryify I was talking about the cardio of these two. Sure mma is fun to watch...for about 10minutes until somebody goes down and it turns into two guys hugging and breathing heavily... for one to appreciate boxing, one has to understand it...MMA is just mild violence, a reflex of a sick mediocre quick to bore society.
Vintage Chuck in his prime! The general census was Chuck was going to get pummeled. One of the best ever in MMA and during that era the competition was deep. Chuck never backed away from anybody and he took on the best and came out on top. Have a good time in your retirement and remember you're a legend.
Pride was so good man
Pride had some legendary fights
I forgot how great Chuck Lindell was at his prime!! Legend
OG Respects.... never forget ICE MAN 💪💪💪
Both savage killers! Good times back in Pride FC
That's a well earned win for Liddell.
That left knee is so perfect nobody throws them like he did
Chuck was never the most technical but he was a dawg.
Prime Iceman was unstoppable
He is the reason i l9ve to watch MMA, till GSP and the Spider come out, i still cherish those days like WOW...
Awesome fights on the card, and that old school tournament format was brutal. Hats off to Chuck for stepping up during that event. If you haven't already check out the whole tournament, Chuck, Rampage, and Wandy all in their prime. Pride FC - Final Conflict 2003
I love that fight!
you'll never see something like this ever again
"That kid is super tough he is gonna be a problem for sure"-Chuck backstage after this fight
Man, these guys had some great transition movement in their heyday. And seeing Chuck actually wrestle is always a treat. Even if it was simply from him getting rocked. Lol
Wow that was crazy…these were the good old days
Daaamn Chuck, vicious and with Takedowns.. daaamn
Wow what a remarkable turn around for chuck his chin was outstanding that night just when you think he is gonna loose he lit that other guy up with a good combo for the finish , chuck looked hurt I wasn't expecting him to win that , that was such a remarkable turn around
Chucks finishes are so fun to watch
What a fight! Devastating strikers.
Good classic fight I never seen, I thought I seen most of those old Pride fights. I’m saying to myself while watching, Chuck hasn’t landed the right hand yet, I know it only takes one to change all this. And there it was , beautiful overhand at a unique angle to get the job done. Canelo landed a similar one to drop Charlo just recently
Incredible
Living legend
Damn look how small Overeem was. Crazy