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FEBRUARY 21, 2008
Liddell Cracks NYT Best Seller List



Chuck Liddell's memoir, Iceman, is number nine on the New York Times Best Seller List for Hardcover Nonfiction. This is the book's second week on the list, it debuted at number nine last week.

"MMA is the new big realm in publishing right now," Gersh Literary Agent Margaret O'Connor recently told FIGHT! Magazine (SEE: MMA Goes Hollywood). "The sport is becoming part of the cultural zeitgeist, it's infused in popular culture. It's not a direction comparison, but seven or eight years ago there was this huge flurry of books on the personalities of the WWE. This is like the next wave."

O'Connor is currently working on books with Randy Couture, Sean Sherk, and Rich Franklin.

“It’s opening up a whole new arena in publishing. It’s very exciting," O'Connor said. "This reaches a part of the market that doesn’t typically buy books, males 18-34. They usually go out and buy DVDs and Xbox games, but like with Randy Couture’s book, this is the one book that they will buy. So this is appealing to that part of the market, they’re looking for something that speaks to them.”

POSTED BY ADAM SWIFT AT 12:50 PM

LABELS: MAINSTREAM, PUBLISHING, UFC

Source: MMAPayout.com: The Business of MMA: Liddell Cracks NYT Best Seller List

[POINDEXTER]

Nice work, Chuck. Anybody read this?

[NAL987]

only on chapter 10 and it hasnt even got into any of his mma bouts, yet im addicted i cant seem to put it down

[POINDEXTER]

Originally Posted by NAL987

only on chapter 10 and it hasnt even got into any of his mma bouts, yet im addicted i cant seem to put it down

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[antix818]

I've read it. It was okay. You don't need too high of a reading comprehension level to get through it.

[perc10]

Good book

[Darth Vitt]

It was good I liked it. It spends alot of time on his early life. He often brags about his sexual conquests in the book and how many street fights he got into. He talks about the early stages of his time in the UFC and the transition to the "newer" UFC.

If your a fan of Chuck or an MMA fan I would defenitly read this book there is almost a story a chapter that you'll either be laughing at or just kinda like WTF.

Example: He talks about bartending in I think it was SLO, and how this huge black guy who looked menacing walked in and like yells Where's Chuck like he was ready to kill someone and Chuck jumps over the bar looking ready to go as he approaches the guy like they are going to brawl they both start laughing hug each other and then chill out together...it was his longtime friend Lorenzo Neal from the San Diego Chargers. Its cool stories like that that kept me going from chapter to chapter.

It took me 3 sittings to read this book (1 more than Hughes' book) I couldn't tell you the time it took but I at no point was itching to stop reading(either book for that matter)