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Ultimate Fighting Championship: Ultimate Iceman - Chuck Liddell

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First and foremost i want to say that i'm a huge Chuck Liddell fan.. .and it is very unchuck to whine about anything... However I think that the dvd could've gone in depth a little bit more and should have shown the full fights of liddell vs. Couture as advertised... I bought this dvd specifically because i thought i would be able to see the entire fight...
Jackson is not mentioned at all... but that is understandible because this is a Zuffa production and this dvd was made prior to the acquisition by the Fertitta brothers of the Pride organization... So I think for legal reasons when this dvd was made they couldn't include Chucks wantingness to fight Silva.. .and losing to Rampage in the Pride Ironman tournament...
Regardless... the lack of bonus material and the lack of full length UFC fights makes it hard to give the dvd a high rating... I mean the production paid for the rights of all these different songs for highlight reels and montages contained in the movie but they couldn't show complete fights??.. or go in depth a little more?? You can find additional stuff on youtube by searching around... The run time is exactly 1 hour... I think Chuck deserves a little more time then that.. and so do the rest of us for buying the dvd...

Chuck Liddell, up to early 2007 he was THE fighter people talked about. He seemed indestructable, laying waste to threats and taking on greats to beat them down. Here we get an hour long documentary that basically kisses Chuck's butt and shines him in the best light they (Dana White/UFC) want because he was their top draw at the time. This dvd is a look at Chuck's upbringing and points in his career the moved him into the next level. There's some great stuff on his personal life growing up and his training. It spends time with his loss/win over Jeremy Horn, his rivalry with Tito Ortiz, and his epic encounters with Randy Coutoure. For me, I loved the Tito segment as it gives us Chuck's take on their purported 'friendship' and shows the quality of opponents each man was fighting at the time (Chuck was busy knocking off serious contenders while Tito sat on top and was defending against maybe less-than-worthy opponents in title matches).

What this dvd doesn't have is any fights in their fullness. There's only highlights of some matches but absolutely no full length match. There's a bit of false advertising going on saying it contains all three Liddell/Coutoure fights when it's only miniscule segments of them (that and Amazon description claims 2 hours when it's only 61 minutes). There's no mention of his loss to Rampage Jackson but that's due to it took place in the PRIDE organization and not UFC (this was released before their UFC fight). The lack of full fights hurts the top star ranking of an otherwise well done look into the life of the Iceman. There is a definite vibe of Chuck butt-kissing going on here but that's to be expected because he's the man Dana White was pushing.

This is a documentary about Chuck from his childhood to UFC 57 which was the third and final time he fought Couture. It is a very well done, 60 minute life story. It showed old home video clips of him and his brothers, how he got involved with The Pit, and overall into MMA. Once it got into the MMA portion of the story, it showed portions of his fights against Randleman, Vitor, Babalu, Horn twice, Tito, Couture all three times, and some earlier ones as well. These fight segments were very well integrated into the story. They also shoed details of how his feud with Tito began and evolved into what it is now. Definately a good watch, but I wouldn't pay more than 10 dollars for it, as it is only the documentary and not much else. As far as the packaging goes, it has a shiny cardboard slipcover that has raised print, a regualr case, an insert just like other UFC DVDs, and mine also came with two trading cards.

Parting thoughts:
This was a very well put together documentary, and they made it earn it's collector's edition label. My only complaints are that they didn't have the complete fights as supplemental material, and I think the $20 reccomended price is too high.

I bought outer UFC DVD's and they were very intertaining. I thouhgt I was going to see Chuck Liddells greatest fights. No,it was all talk an BS!

This DVD on the life of Chuck Liddell is just AWESOME!! It gives Insight on the man who has changed the Landscape of the Ever growing Sport of MMA!! Look behind-the-scenes as they interview his family, friends and professional MMA affiliates as they testify to this man's greatness! Don't miss out on this DVD!! If you are an MMA Fan, you will Love this Video!!!

This DVD gives a whole new look into the lives of Chuck Liddell, his family, his training crew and his peers. I think the only time i've ever seen a documentary where so many other competitors were willing to talk about one athlete might be a Michael Jordan documentary. This DVD has all sorts of old footage of Chuck growing up, stories from high school and college coaches. Lots from Dana White, Joe Rogan, Randy Couture and the like. Matt Hughes has a very memorable quote from the movie as well, "Most anyone can win the championship, but only a champion can defend it."

Absolutely worth every penny.

This is a great documentary about Chuck Liddel. Talks about Chuck's childhood and emulation as a fighter from his first fight in the UFC where he was the guy "with an accounting degree" to the Light heavy-weight champion. The great thing about the DVD is that it deals with how Chuck deals with losses to a Legend such as Randy Couture and how he over came them, and it is refreshing to see how much respect the fighter have for each other as well with the exception if Tito Ortiz. I think Jason Horn put it best when he said "I did not beat the Chuck Liddell of today I beat the fighter he was 6 years ago". The only problem with this DVD is that it does not give you any bonus material at all, and just the highlights of the fights them selves. It would be nice the have a couple off the fights in there entirety. I mean you can fit more then an hour documentary on a DVD. In closing I would just like to say if you are a fan of Chuck Liddell or Randy Couture get this DVD.

At the beginning, a small Brazilian man showed the world that grappling and submissions could dominate all other styles of marital arts. But the sport has evolved, and no one style can dominate like it did during the sport's infancy. Chuck Liddell is at the forefront of this new evolution. He is showing us that a stand-up fighter that can sprawl and avoid the take down, can dominate the competition like Royce Gracie did at the beginning. This video shows Chuck Liddell proving why he is at the forefront of that evolution, and how the new era of MMA will continue to evolve and change as athletes like Liddell continue to redefine our ideas of what works and doesn't work inside the octagon.

Whoever produced this DVD, have you ever heard of Jackson?? The only person to have defeated Lidell, that Lidell has yet to defeat?? The DVD is somewhat informative, not totally entertaining. It says it has Couture 1,2 &3, but it is all edited fights and you only see about 90 seconds worth total of each fight, if that.

To reiterate, the DVD does not mention or show the Jackson fight. It leads you believing that Liddell is unquestionably undisputed. This is very very false. Did I miss something???/

I think Lidell is intelligent enough to believe that this DVD is BS, my question is is how much input did he have in production? Seriously, Liddell by simply not saying that a documented loss never happened, is on the same playing field as Ortiz evading a title fight with Liddell. What Ortiz does through his mouth, Liddell does through UFC promoters. C'mon Chuck, I'll KNOCK YOU OUT!!!

I love Lidell's family values and work ethic. Sorry Chuck. If you lose this week against Jackson, I won't feel sorry for you, because I spent $15 on a DVD about you that invents its own history.