Vernon White: Chuck Liddell was in rehab before UFC 71 bout

for reasons that will be evident in a moment, I don't think White knows much of anything about what Chuck Liddell did before, during or after UFC 71.

However, in an interview at bloodyknux.com White made that exact claim.

A lot of people don’t understand is that I have a CAT scan that goes through my eye that shows where the finger entered my eye and where the bone was blown
out under my eye socket. It cost $38 thousand dollars to fix the eye. I have a silicon implant in my eye that’s screwed down so my eye doesn’t fall down
into my nasal cavity. As far as I’m concerned with all these idiots out there who don’t know what happened, they should keep their mouths shut until you
know the facts.

Everyone was saying, ‘I didn’t see a thumb go in, I didn’t see this, I didn’t see that.’ Just because it wasn’t a thumb, it doesn’t mean a finger didn’t
go into my eye. When you have interviews from other fighters stating that Chuck’s fingers have gone into their eyes. It doesn’t mean that he stuck his
fingers in the eye, but with the way he punches, his knuckles go in people’s eyes. I can’t bad mouth Chuck. He just came off a hard loss. Chuck just got
out of rehab, but I do have to say it was stupid for him to come out of rehab and fight Quinton the way he fought him. He should have fought a smarter
fight. Quinton’s my boy, I love you, and hold that belt forever.

White and Liddell have had bad blood with one another dating back to even before their UFC fight. Sam Caplan of FiveOuncesOfPain goes further