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14th May 2018
08:56pm BST

"I will fight again. If we can get a deal together with somebody and it made sense, yeah (unequivocally)."https://www.instagram.com/p/BCmhT47sDLP/?utm_source=ig_embed
“I miss it. I never stopped missing it. And I kinda hadn’t really thought about it much. And then when he brought it up and we started getting going, and I started training and I started doing stuff again, getting ready to try to take this on, it made me go, ‘You know what, what if he pulls out? Am I not going to fight? Am I going to do all of this and not fight?’ Oh no, we had to have somebody backing up, and if it doesn’t work out with him, I’m [still] going to give it a shot. It’ll be somebody else, one of the guys from my past probably, most likely, and we’ll see where I’m at.”Aside from Ortiz, Lidell admitted he wouldn't mind fighting Bellator star Chael Sonnen. He believes 'the American Gangster's 'big mouth' would sell the fight adequately. Rather worryingly, Liddell also let it known that the ultimate goal of his return was to secure a fight against Jon Jones, arguably the greatest fighter to ever grace an Octagon.
"To be honest, in my mind I'd like to fight two good warm up fights and I'd like a shot at Jon."Host Ariel Helwani may have thought he misheard the legend when he responded with,"Jon..." But Liddell was quick to clear up the confusion.
"Jones. I'm serious, I'd like a shot at him. But, we'll see."When asked why on Earth he would want to fight Jones, Liddell simply responded with, 'styles'.
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