Iceman - Review by Garrett Latta

The book I read was Iceman by Chuck Liddell. If I were to rate this book, I would give it a 9/10.  The author really makes you feel like you are inside the ring fighting for the light heavyweight title. The way Chuck walks you through each one of his fights and even what first started his passion for the sport of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts).  Chuck puts a lot of detail in each one of the fights he is describing. Chuck describes every punch that was thrown.           

            Reading this book makes you feel as if you are in the front row of the stadium watching each one of these fights go down. The part I like is before Chuck entered the UFC, he talks about how he used to get in fights all the time on the street and how he was always sort or poor.  Chuck talks about how he always went to The Pit (his gym) and trained when he was bored and this got him noticed by UFC president Dana white which lead to a few fights when he wasn’t getting paid very much for but after he won a few it got him more and more noticed.

            The experiences Liddell faced are the reason I loved this book he makes you feel like he feels when he wins the light heavy weight belt the detail makes you feel as if you are right there in the ring with him and you feel excited for him.  Other parts such as when one of his family members passes away you feel sad for him the detail in this book really drives you emotion to the way Chuck was feeling in the book. Every fight he wins feels like you are winning.

Chuck goes through every step he had to take to get the belt he starts off when he was a little kid and talks about how he liked fight, then he takes you into his teenage years when he

was doing wrestling and the goes through his years as a adult whether he was fighting Tito Ortiz or Babalu he tells you about every fight and every training regiment he had to go through to become the champion.

            I feel that this is one of the few books I could read more than once because the hole time when he’s describing a fight you are always rooting for him to knock the other guy out Chuck Liddel is a legendary fighter who was known for his quick and heavy hands and a positive “he knocks me out or I knock him out ether way this fight is gonna end in a knockout attitude” after being the champion for some time liddel got into the UFC hall of fame and then I feel he wrote a 9/10 great book.