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Wandy - I want to win bad....
Published 12/24/2007 by Colonel Balz at MMA Fever - Are you down with the sickness?
It will have been just over 10 months since he last fought when he faces Liddell on Dec. 29, but the former Pride champion feels that will only improve his skills for the fight.Silva recently relocated to the United States to focus his training for this fight, leaving behind his former team, Chute Boxe, and joining forces with Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. ...

Wanderlei Silva v2.0
Published 12/26/2007 by Luke Thomas <info@bloodyelbow.com> at Bloody Elbow
Stylistically, it's hard not to argue Chuck Liddell has no edge over Wanderlei Silva. Silva charges into the pocket with hooking punches leaving himself exposed for extended, hard, chambered punches down the middle, a specialty of The Iceman. But Liddell is not the same fighter that was supposed to face Silva in PRIDE's 2003 Middleweight tournament. Aside from succumbing to the slow creep of age (he'll be 38 by the time he enters the cage on Saturday), he is stuck in a rut with respect to his fight preparation. A case can be made that you should dance with the one that got you there, but even that Aristotelean wisdom has it's shortcomings, i.e. you're losing in very ...