Liddell loses at Ultimate Fighting event

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Rashad Evans landed a huge overhand right hand knocking out former light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell with 1:51 left in the second round in the main event at UFC 88 at Philips Arena Saturday night.

It was a purely stand-up fight, neither man attempting to take down the other. And it was Evans knocking out the knockout artist (14 of Liddell’s 21 victories were by knockout). Evans remains unbeaten (17-0-1) while Liddell now has lost three of his last four fights.

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In the other prelims: Newly moved up to light heavyweight, Rich Franklin won the battle between friends and former training partners when he dropped Matt Hamill with body kick 39 seconds into the third round.

Former Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Dan Henderson (23-7-0) defeated Rousimar Palhares (17-2-0) by unanimous decision.

Middleweight Nate Marquardt (30-8-2) TKOed Martin Kampman (13-2-0) just 82 seconds into the first round.

Welterweight Dong Hyun Kim won over Matt Brown by split decision.

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