Tito Ortiz was never one to cherry-pick opponents, but if ever a high-probability win will be handed to him on a silver platter, he won’t complain.
After all, the Huntington Beach Bad Boy torched gloves with Chuck Liddell, Rashad Evans, Lyoto Machida, Forrest Griffin, Matt Hamill, Ryan Bader and Evans again—one formidable foe after the other.
Going 1-5-1 in his last seven trips into the Octagon, the aging veteran needs a break and another win before he retires. Another senior fighter will serve that purpose in Rich “Ace” Franklin.
Ortiz fans who have been missing his signature ground-and-pound of old must not miss this fight, if it happens.
The former UFC light-heavyweight champion will do to the former middleweight king what the Thunder couldn’t do to The Spider. That is, exploit the hefty advantage and drag and bang the other all over the Octagon.
With 15 KO wins compared to the Bad Boy’s eight, Griffin certainly has a puncher’s chance against the bigger Ortiz. However, even Walel Watson got that against Cain Velasquez, albeit with far lesser chances.
The Master’s degree-holder is “faster” and will run rings around the college drop-out to avoid the takedowns? Well, he can run, but he can’t…
It’s true that The Mask won over Chuck Liddell and Matt Hamill, who in turn both beat The People’s Champ. Ho-hum, Franklin the former math teacher must know that this so-called “MMA math” is a misnomer and it doesn’t count.
This fight is still pure speculation, regardless of Dana White‘s apparent interest in it.
Maybe, after all, I would never be proven…right.
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