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March 28, 2024

UFC 97: Silva wins snoozer, Liddell loses again

Middleweight champ Anderson Silva did little to remove the bad taste from UFC fans' mouth from his lackluster win five months ago over Patrick Cote. But the Brazilian did enough on the scorecards to prove triumphant for a record-breaking ninth straight time in the Octagon Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.

ChucK Liddell lost again, this time to Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in the first round, prompting the inevitable retirement questions.

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