Thursday, January 31, 2008

Debut n. A seventeenth public appearance, as of a performer.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com
/2008/writers/jon_wertheim/01/31/chuck.liddell/index.html

The writers of articles only rarely headline them or caption the pictures so I'm not sure who's to blame for this error, but it's a pretty bad one. In case it gets corrected it read

"Chuck Liddell, left, defeated Tito Ortiz in his UFC debut in 2006. Now Liddell wants a shot at Quinton Jackson."

Nevermind the fact that the very name of UFC 66 was Liddell vs. Ortiz II this caption makes it pretty clear that the caption writer has no idea who Chuck is, no knowledge of the three Couture fights, Babalu both getting his head taken off and showing terrible gameplanning in two seperate UFC fights, the hilarious Vernon White KO or even Chuck getting tapped by Jeremy Horn way back when.

That's not a big deal there are plenty of newer fans to the UFC ....not many so new that they weren't around to see Chuck as a coach for TUF1 but hey the media's just catching on.

But that doesn't excuse the fact that it takes no time to look up Chucks record, here I'll do it right now.

Alright it took google .24 seconds to give me results for the search "Chuck Liddell", the first four results are Chucks home page, Sherdog's fightfinder, his UFC.com profile, and his wikipedia page. Any of those four could be used to find out that Chuck had 16 UFC fights before the second Ortiz fight. Total time spent: 4 minutes, only because I got distracted by Lake Placid 2 ads at Sherdog.
If it never went to theatres why is it a big deal that it's unrated....I guess I'll have to start a straight to DVD advertising criticism blog as well.

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