Chuck Liddell

I'm a little biased, yeah, but it was a good time.

It was fun.

We had a great time.

time in a division ever like the light heavyweight division at that time well it was the biggest yeah at that time was one of the it was the premier you know division i guess but yeah there's a lot of great fights back then so

You know, it is a lot bigger.

Like it was, you know, it was a UFC, there's five or six a year, not, you know, 45.

You know, it's a little more.

I'm glad there's a lot more guys out there, a lot more guys fighting, a lot more fights.

but i thought it'd take a lot longer and i think you know that us getting on it was just so hard to break into getting on free tv getting people to understand even that what kind of fan base we had even at that time and then but the the you know the reality show tough just exploded i mean it made it

You know, it was genius.

I mean, it was great.

It was like, I think Danny said, it was this Trojan horse to get a free fight on TV and get people to see, you know, see the sport.

Got to see, you know, meet guys that are fighting and see them training, see them doing stuff.

And it exploded.

I can tell you, for me, it went from me being able to walk through a mall and go, okay, that guy probably knows who I am.

And that guy with the tap-out shirt on, he knows me.

And that guy, maybe, to six-year-old ladies coming up, hey, good fight the other night.

Wow.

And it was almost overnight after that.

From the Ultimate Fighter.