Tito Being Tito, Maybe His Best Excuse Ever

Discussion in 'General MMA discussion' started by C-Me-No-More, Apr 8, 2013.


    There’s no doubt that Tito Ortiz deserves his place in the UFC Hall of Fame, and if there’s ever an MMA Hall of Fame, he’ll surely be enshrined there as well. Through a career that lasted 15 years, he established himself as one of the greatest light heavyweights in the history of the sport.

    However, there was another side of Tito that was slightly less “Hall of Fame”—his penchant for rolling out an endless litany of excuses whenever something didn’t go his way.

    Ortiz last fought in the UFC back in July 2012, dropping a unanimous decision to Forrest Griffin in the third meeting between the two fighters. The loss brought a close to Ortiz’s career, but, alas, it has not brought an end to his excuse-making and finger-pointing—and he’s seemed to have saved the best for last.

    Ortiz’s normal list of excuses for losses usually revolved around undisclosed injuries in the past, but for the Griffin loss, he’s pulled out the big guns. Speaking to Ground and Pound TV, Ortiz pretty much accuses the UFC of fixing the fight:

    I thought I won the fight, when you drop a guy twice, you take him down four times and you dominate by doing it. He never took me down. He never hurt me. For the first time ever in UFC history, they showed strikes attempted; not strikes landed, strikes attempted. When do you ever show somebody with strikes attempted? He never hit me, I blocked all of them.

    After him (Griffin) running out of the fight, that shows that he lost and for Dana (White) to go back and run and get him to come back, there’s something fishy going on here. How does Dana know how things are going to turn out? I thought something was fishy about that. Was it premeditated? Was it pre-planned out what the answer was going to be? If I didn’t knock him it, if I didn’t submit him, they already knew who was going to win.

    If, as Ortiz proclaims, this fix was in, it went pretty deep, as the FightMetric numbers for the fight show that Griffin outstruck (and, yes, out-attempted) Ortiz through the three-round battle, landing 104 of an attempted 280 strikes to Ortiz’s 68 landed strikes.

    One can argue that the decision should have gone Ortiz’s way in the bout, but to say the fight was fixed is a reckless statement at best and one I would not expect UFC president Dana White to let slide without at least some type of comment.

    Never change, Tito, never change.
  2. darcebandit Well-Known Member

    Read this earlier.........vintage Tito.
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  3. Shawnd1901 Well-Known Member

    guess that big head houses such a tiny brain lol he thought he won that fight since he didnt ufc is fixed
  4. abc0331 Well-Known Member

    Major indictment from Tito Oritz here, and no major facts.

    Someone needs pull Tito aside and tell him that he can not do things like this any more. He is now going on in an interview as professional businessman, not athlete, what he just did is slander without any facts.

    Tito is not hyping up a fight anymore, he works for people as a buffer between the fighter and organization; what kind of fighter wants a guy who ran off his mouth a little too much and got blacklisted from the UFC? Especially if there is any truth to it!
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  5. madictionary Well-Known Member

    You're right, not something an "agent" should be doing.
  6. mma_guru333 Well-Known Member

    Exactly. I read it once and that was the first thing I thought.
  7. FullItalian Well-Known Member

    I thought Tito won, but the fight was close. What does the UFC gain by fixing Ortiz/Griffin III? :D
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  8. Redshot135 New Member

    That was such a close fight. Its so tough to make a call, although I do believe Forrest outworked Tito throughout.
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  10. TheCregs Active Member

    I had forest 29-28
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  12. dpbembe Well-Known Member

    I thought Tito won the fight. His comments made me glad that he lost.
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  14. redstar Well-Known Member

    Exactly, hope Cyborg & his other clients are taking notice.
    A manager who goes out of his way to defame & devalue the industry you are trying to make a living in?...interesting strategy.
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  16. Brick Administrator

    But apparently she does, lol.
  17. NicoSuave Well-Known Member

    Why is every fighter from California with a "bad boy" persona a complete dumbass when a microphone is placed in their face?
  18. KingFedor Active Member

    You mean all two of them?
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  20. Reckin007 Well-Known Member

    I had Griffin winning it....Tito could have won it. I don't care either way. I'm surprised Tito was allowed to fight with all those injuries/ailments.

    The only credit that I'll ever give Tito is that he's probably one of the smartest fighters in UFC history. He's got his own clothing line, owns his own gym, and still somehow keeps himself relevant in MMA...even in 2013 and being retired for almost a year. Also his career lasted a long time for being a one-dimensional fighter (15 years - longer than both Liddell/Couture).

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