the ICEMAN cometh

[turkeytalker]

A couple said Liddell was washed up,one trick pony,etc.I guess we'll see this weekend when he fights Jard.Either 1st rnd. knockout or Chuck may just be done.


Rampage is an equal oppurtunity champion only,and somebody is about to knock the ugly off his face and who else is up to the task than Chuck?Jardine maybe but i think Chuck

[lymanl3]

Chuck better watch out...Jardine could easily knock him out.

Rampage will go down...hes not that bad. Wonder if he still remembers falling out of the ring after Silva put a few patellas on his face?

[KYhunter79]

They both got knocked out in their last fight.

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I dont think Chuck is washed up,I just think Rampage has his number.If you can take Chuck's punch,example,Rampage Jackson,then you can beat him.I really cant see Jardine being able to take it,but its the UFC,anything can happen.If the Dean of Mean takes it too the ground I say he stands a better chance,if it stays in the stand up,I give Liddel the edge.Should be a great card but I will be working all night Saturday so you guys will have too put all the details on here.

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I think it will be a good fight but with surprise in some way or another. I love the Iceman and hope he wins because if he doesn't I think this will really hurt him and his career. He needs this win. I ahve to work as well so I really want someone to tape it or something and then send me a copy .. . lol . .

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http://www.ifilm.com/bio/494653?show=22307 Check out this guy.He is the man to root for on the Ultimate Fighter.He was stationed in Fort Knox but evidently has moved back to Idaho and there was an article in the New Enterprise about him,sounds like a nice guy.http://www.ifilm.com/video/2896326/artist/494653

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Here is the story from the News Enterprise about the fighter from Radcliff

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS: Radcliff's Barrera fighting for his chance at stardom on The Ultimate Fighter

By GREG CREWS
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:30 PM CDT

RADCLIFF — Daniel Barrera found himself in familiar quarters Wednesday night. The situation, however, was a bit foreign.

At Energy Sports & Fitness in Elizabethtown, where the 26-year-old Radcliff resident has spent a large portion of the last 18 months training to be a mixed martial arts fighter, Barrera was surrounded by friends and family as they gathered to watch Barrera’s debut on Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter.
Also watching his debut were an estimated 2 million viewers.
“I am probably not going to watch that much,” Barrera said Tuesday. “I don’t see myself as any type of celebrity or anything. I try to stay humble. I don’t think I need to see myself on TV.”

In what is rapidly becoming one of the biggest sports in the country — time-and-time again setting pay-per-view audience records — Barrera has just finished competing on its biggest stage.

Unfortunately, he is sworn to secrecy for the next two months.

“I can’t talk about anything that happened on the show,” Barrera said. “I can’t say anything that could give away what is going to happen.”

What Barrera can talk about, however, is how he earned a chance to compete with 15 other professional fighters for a six-figure contract with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

At Minico High School in Barrera’s hometown of Rupert, Idaho, he began his competitive fighting career as a wrestler. He quickly found success in the circle and made it to the state championships in 1999.

After graduating high school, Barrera joined the Air Force, where he toured the world and became deeply involved with boxing, compiling a record of 15-3-0.

“I was a Staff Sergeant in the Air Force with the Hot Shot crew in California,” said Barrera, who was honorably discharged in 2005. “They gave me the option to lease out and I took a job as a firefighter at Fort Knox.”

Upon arriving at Fort Knox, Barrera looked to continue his boxing career. But a lack of competition and boxing facilities steered him to MMA, where he was able to train using Fort Knox’s state-of-the-art equipment for hand-to-hand combat and even spar in a newly installed octagon arena (the same design used in UFC).

Just like he did in wrestling and boxing, Barrera quickly took to MMA, and it wasn’t long before he was being pressured to jump to the next level.

“My wife and I had watched a couple seasons of (The Ultimate Fighter),” Barrera said. “She said, ‘These guys are bums. You need to try out.’”

It turned out to be pretty good advice.

Barrera put together a tape of his MMA fights and sent it to UFC, eventually being called and asked to come in for an evaluation.

“They weeded it out from thousands of tapes and I got chosen to be reviewed in a selection process,” said Barrera, who competes in the 170-pound weight class. “I had to go in front of judges and show them my grappling skills and hand speed and other stuff.

“I was expecting to hear ‘Sorry kid, you didn’t make it, but come back and try again next year,’” he added. “When I found out I made the Final 16, it was just amazing.”

By making it to the Final 16, Barrera earned a spot on the show and in The Ultimate Fighter house in Las Vegas. There, he spent six weeks training with some of UFC’s biggest names, while living in a house filled with talented and somewhat rambunctious athletes.

“I can’t compare it to anything,” Barrera said of the living arrangement. “I can’t compare it to basic training. I can’t compare it to firefighter training. I can’t compare it to either, because in both of those you don’t go six weeks without being able to call your wife.”

Barrera gave the impression that living in the house was a bit difficult at times, being the only married man and the only devout Christian in the bunch.

“A lot of guys weren’t really there for the right reasons I thought,” Barrera said. “I didn’t do this for the fame or the money, I already had a good job as a firefighter.”

However, that job became one of many sacrifices that Barrera was forced to make for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

“I had worked for the fire department for 1 ½ years,” Barrera said. “I told them about my opportunity and that I would be gone for six weeks. I told them they would get exposure from me being on the show, but they really took it the wrong way. They told me ‘If you leave, you won’t have a job when you come back.’”

Now Barrera, who spent over six years in the military before becoming a firefighter, said he and his wife are struggling to get by, but he knows his career in MMA is on the up-and-up.

Though Barrera can’t divulge how far into the competition he made it, The Ultimate Fighter (in its sixth season) has produced many successful UFC combatants, most of which did not win in their respective season.

“They are going to be seeing a lot more of me,” Barrera said of the UFC. “This is just the beginning for me.”

Now Barrera is back in Radcliff, glad to be home with his wife and glad to be once again training at Cyclone MMA, where his is continuing to work with his instructor, Jason Keaton.

“I think being on the show was definitely a growing experience for me,” said Barrera, who also hopes to pursue a boxing career. “I grew as a fighter, as a Christian and as a husband. It was definitely a life-altering experience.”

The Ultimate Fighter airs on cable’s Spike TV, with new episodes on Wednesday nights at 10. The finale is scheduled to air live in December, with the two finalists squaring off in Las Vegas.


Greg Crews can be reached at 769-1200, Ext. 247 Print this story (http://www.newsenterpriseonline.com/articles/2007/09/20/sports/sports02.prt) | Email this story (http://www.newsenterpriseonline.com/articles/2007/09/20/sports/sports02.eml) | Return to Sports (http://javascript<b></b>:parent.history.back())

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Fireduck works with this guy on post.I've heard plenty about him before he ever tried out for The Ultimate Fighter.He def. looks and sounds like all that.Love to see local guys do well..................

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The Iceman leaveath:D