Styled

By Phoenix Delray

 Chuck Liddell is one of the most popular MMA champions today. He was born December 17, 1969, and is known in the Ultimate Fighting Championship world as The Iceman. He is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champion, and has been active in Mixed Martial Arts for years.

Chuck Liddell has a long career in wrestling and kickboxing that goes back many years. Chuck Liddell began taking lessons in Koei Kan Karate when he was only twelve years old, and a close look at his scalp will reveal a tattoo that reads Koei Kan. When Chuck Liddell was in high school, he enjoyed the local fame as a starting player on the football team for all four years that he attended. Growing up in Santa Barbara, a college town, he says that he often would get into fights with the local college kids who would come out of the bars late at night drunk, and had found then that he was an excellent fighter.

While he was a student at California Polytechnic State University, he became a Division I wrestler, and graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995. After that, he began to train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu with expert John Lewis. At 62 and 205 pounds, Chuck Liddell combines his training in Kempo Karate and Koei Kan karate into his fighting style for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, making him a real stand up fighter. He is famous within the Mixed Martial Arts community for his incredible takedown defense and knockout skills.

Since 1998, Chuck Liddell has taken down many of the top fighters in Mixed Martial Arts, beginning with a stunning win over Noe Hernandez in a fight that began his career in the limelight with Mixed Martial Arts. Four short years later, in 2002 he was credited with being the number one Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter in the light heavyweight division. Other big name fighters that he has taken down in the ring over the years are Jeremy Horn, Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz and Kevin Randleman. His relaxed hands down stance and unorthodox punch angles make him a unique fighter in the UFC, and also a favorite among fans.

Chuck Lidell is grateful to his fans and gives back to the people who have cheered him on through the years. In 2005, Chuck Liddell made an appearance on the first season of The Ultimate Fighter, Spike TVs reality show that features amateur fighters competing for a UFC contract. He was the coach of Team Liddell while Randy Couture coached Team Couture.

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The Great MMA Fighter Fedor Emelianenko
By Phoenix Delray

 Fedor Emelianenko is said to be one of the best heavyweight fighters in the world. Known in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) as The Last Emporor, Fedor Emelianenko has proven that he is one of the greatest Mixed Martial Arts champions who has ever lived. ESPN, The Wrestling Observer, and The Fight Network all couldnt agree more.

Fedor Emelianenko was born on September 28, 1976 in Luhansk, part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union. His father was a steel worker, and his mother had been an elementary school teacher. Fedor Emelianenko has two other brothers who also are fighters, though not quite to the extent that he does. All three of the boys are involved in Mixed Martial Arts. Aleksander, Fedor, and Ivan Emelianenko all have many years experience in fighting.

Fedor Emelianenko began as a small child training in the arts of Judo and Sambo, and had all but mastered the fighting styles before he was 10 years old. Fedor Emelianenko was not a large or oversized child at all; he was said to have been below average in size, and no one would ever have guessed that he would have turned out to be a fighter. He claims that it is through his dedication and will power that he was able to get as far as he has today as a champion fighter.

Fedor Emelianenko did not go into fighting as a career right after he was done with school. He graduated from high school in 1991 to attend a professional trade school. He did graduate from the trade school, and from there, Fedor Emelianenko enlisted in the army, and was a firefighter in the army for two years from 1995 to 1997. Once Fedor was out of the army for two years, he courted and married a girl he had been with for a long time, and not long afterwards, their daughter Masha was born.

All the while that Fedor Emelianenko had been in the army and in school, he had continued his training in Judo and Sambo, and by 1997 he was certified as a Master of Sports in both areas. He was asked by the Russian National Team to join them. He did join the team, and in 1998, he won the bronze medal in the Russian Judo Championship. Only two years later in 2000, he began competitions at the professional level in combat Sambo and Mixed Martial Arts.

The fans who follow this great fighter are extremely dedicated to Emelianenko. They admire his courage, his perseverance, and his determination even at a young age to not let his small size keep him from following his dreams of becoming a great fighter.

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