| Tommy Morrison Wants UFC Champ Chuck Liddell |
It was reported in the Arizona Republic , that former WBO heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison (48-3, 42KOs) is ready to make his debut in mixed martial arts, with a goal in mind of eventually landing a fight with UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck "Iceman" Liddell.
Morrison, who recently resumed his boxing career after testing positive for HIV 11-years-ago (1996) in Las Vegas, has a scheduled bout against 340-pound mixed martial artist John Stover. The bout is scheduled to take place on June 9 at the Cliff Castle Casino in Arizona and promoted by Worldwide Fighting Championship.
Following his positive test for HIV, Morrison was medically banned from boxing. In the last few years, he told anyone that would listen that he was given a false-positive HIV result in 1996.
On at least 5 occasions since December 2006, Morrison has tested negative for the HIV virus. After the head of the Arizona State Boxing Commission personally watched Morrison take a blood test at a lab in Phoenix, and the test came back negative for HIV, Morrison was licensed to return on February 20, where he knocked out John Castle (4-2, 2 KOs) in the second round of a scheduled four round contest.
A second comeback bout was scrapped after medical documents were not received in time by the governing athletic board. Morrison did not look great in his bout with Castle and appeared to be tired by the second round. There has been no word on who Morrison is training with in order to properly prepare himself for his MMA debut
HAIL TO MORRISON, IM BEHINd YOU BROTHER!! THE MAN DOESNT HAVE the H.i.v. virus , never did. The gov. knows that steriods has alot to do whith this false negative. he should sue them and i think he is! after his law suit he should train for 2 years whith weights and he can easily be in the top 10 in the W.B.A RATINGS!! WHAT A PROMOTION THIS WILL TURN OUT TO BE. AS FAR AS FIGHTING IN OTHER RINGS , MORRISON WILL FIGHT ANYBODY IS ALL. BUT WILL GO BACK TO BOXING , BECAUSE OF THE GOOD MONEY AND WHERE HE IS MOST CONFIDENT!!
wba is not and will never be ufc. enuff said. u r a barney. iceman in the 1st minute.
jrome
boxing is a completely different sport which should not be compared to mma.
jrome