In fighting you don’t necessarily get just one chance to make a good last impression. You can take as many as you need, though it’s seldom advised to try and outlast your own vitality. Chuck Liddell had to have the truth pounded into him between 2008 and 2010 with three straight knockout losses, the second two (against Mauricio Rua and Rich Franklin) which were booked as if to prove the reports of his demise premature. He didn’t get a good last impression. Neither did Franklin, for that matter, who lost to Cung Le in violent fashion in 2012. And in fact, neither did Le, who was left wheezing blood in his final fight by Michael Bisping in 2014.
It wasn’t perfect, but Tito Ortiz stuck around for a happy ending
