(Bellator 131: Stubble. Will. Reign.)
I know it’s only Monday morning, but are you guys ready to have your f*cking minds blown?!! Because it turns out that, contrary to the opinions of almost everyone who witnessed it live, the super awesome Stephan Bonnar-Tito Ortiz brawl at Bellator 123 *might* have been pre-planned. I know, right? So sayeth Bonnar himself:
Listen @Lowkey1324, @titoortiz is a self absorbed ego maniac.The world needed 2 know.Tito, Coker, @BellatorMMA & @SpikeTV, didn’t know shit! It was all me & @JustinMcCully. If u wanna hate us 4 pulling a pro wrestling esque promo off while calling tito out on the BS he’s pulled on people over the years..Then by all means, go buy yourself some punishment gear, a front row ticket, and be sure to bring a rain coat, cuz things r gonna get bloody.
Well I don’t know about you guys, but I am shocked. Shocked I tells ya!! I could have sworn that cornrows rapist mask executioner mask guy was legitimately just there for moral support, and that Bonnar’s hi-larious Jenna Jameson jokes were ripped from the top of his dome, but now I feel cheated. Embarassed for the sport, even. So I say shame on you, Stephan Bonnar, for toying with our emotions so carelessly during an otherwise pleasant evening of fights. I can’t even look at you anymore, and it’s not just because you’re making that face again.
But I’m sure we’re all still wondering, whose idea was the f*cking rape mask? Well thankfully, Justin “The NSane1″ McCully is here to clarify (from his official Facebook):
Clarification time – I planned the mask/s, Bonnar wrote the speech, Tito had no clue what to say and attacked. Period! I love it when a plan comes together…
You’re playing it pretty fast and loose with the phrase “comes together”, NSane1. I ask you, how exactly could this WWE-style promo have gone any worse? It was laughably absurd and immediately ridiculed by every MMA fan who could tell their ass from a hole in the ground, yet here you are patting yourself on the back for it. In addition to being possibly illiterate, it appears that Juz10 McCulE has a somewhat inflated understanding of the non-reaction his double unmasking received. Go figure, right?
(Neither do we, Erik. Neither do we.)
And don’t for a second think that Tito Ortiz wasn’t in on this sham. Less than a month ago, Ortiz told ESPN that the Jon Jones-Daniel Cormier brawl (you know, the one that actually appeared to be for real) was “good for the sport” and would easily double the amount of PPV buys their fight received. You think that he isn’t going to apply that one-to-one correlation to a fight against a formerly retired journeyman? Well then you clearly never saw Ortiz’s run on The Apprentice. The man is nothing if not business savvy.
