It’s back to work for Liddell

If everything had gone as planned -- as it has for his last seven fights, a span of over three years -- Chuck Liddell would be kicking back right now in the midst of one well-earned vacation. Thoughts of training regimens and steamy gyms would be the furthest things from his mind. But it didn’t work out the way the 37-year-old Liddell has grown accustomed. So, instead, the former UFC light heavyweight champ is counting down the hours until he’s right back in the thick of training. The Iceman plans to begin tomorrow -- a good two weeks earlier than he would have had he not lost his title to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson last Saturday night in Las Vegas. “I want to fight as soon as possible,” Liddell said from his home in California. “(Losing) makes you want to get back in there and fight again. It changes stuff a little bit. It makes you want to get back and train. “I need one more big run before I retire. I’m as hungry as I can be. I definitely don’t want to leave like this.” The first-round TKO was a stunner. Rampage knocked Liddell to the canvas with a right hook and then pounced. Four unanswered blows later, referee John McCarthy jumped in and stopped the bout.