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Tito Ortiz Not Ready to Retire, Would Have Liked an Easier Opponent

Tito Ortiz faces Ryan Bader at UFC 132 with the stress that his job is on the line. In a three part blog, ESPN presents Ortiz in his own words. Tito reminds us that he.

Tito Ortiz faces Ryan Bader at UFC 132 with the stress that his job is on the line. In a three part blog, ESPN presents Ortiz in his own words. Tito reminds us that he should be respected as a pioneer in the UFC brand and that he is “The Last of the Mohicans“. He also explains that he hasn’t exactly lost all his fights since 2006 (even though his fight record may reflect straigh losses). Ortiz says he broke down those last few fights to Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta and thinks he earned their respect to keep fighting, which is why he was given another shot after his loss to Matt Hamill. He admits he would have liked an easier opponent than Ryan Bader but accepts the top challenges for the top dollar he gets paid.

Excerpts from his blog below:

After Chuck Liddell beat me in December 2006, I took on Rashad Evans, who went on to be a world champion and has lost only once since. And I beat him. It was only a “draw” because I got a point taken off for the one, single time when I grabbed the fence. It was a draw, but I was the better fighter in the cage. I won.

Then I fought Lyoto Machida, a great fighter who also went on to win the world title. I almost caught him in a triangle and tapped him out. He admitted he thought he was going to pass out. I lost and it sucked, but I was competitive.

Next was a rematch with Forrest Griffin, whom I beat earlier in our careers. I didn’t get the decision this time, but a lot of people felt I won two rounds to one. Again, I was more than competitive with a top-5 guy.

My last fight, against Matt Hamill in October, I lost. It was totally my bad; I didn’t prepare for his takedowns because I didn’t think he’d be able to take me down. Real dumb, my bad, and I am still pissed at myself.

But, again, I am not getting dominated. I’m not getting knocked out like Liddell was late in his career. I am still competitive with the very best guys in the division and haven’t taken a step down in competition since the day I lost my belt in 2003.

I think Dana respected that I had the fire to say, “Hell no, I don’t want to retire! I want to fight!” and argued that I should fight on. So they’re giving me this shot against Ryan Bader, another top-5 guy who has only ever lost to [current UFC light heavyweight champion] Jon Jones.

Would I have liked Dana to give me an easier opponent? Sure! But, hey, they pay me top-attraction money, so I get top-attraction guys …

I’m the Last of the Mohicans. Out of the fighters who helped build the UFC from what it was in the 1990s to what it is now in 2011, they’re all gone except for me. Chuck Liddell has retired; Randy Couture has retired. I’m the last man standing, and now everyone thinks Ryan Bader is going to put me down, too.

I don’t want to go. I’m not going to go. I am going to push the pace and win this fight July 2. My back is right against wall. I’m coming out swinging.

UFC 132 goes down Saturday, July 2nd. To place your bets on Tito Ortiz vs. Ryan Bader, click the icon to your favorite online sports book at the top right of our page.

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Bleacher Report’s Andrew Mahlmann:

We have been spoiled with three UFC events in June but on the Fourth of July weekend, the UFC is pulling out all the stops and giving us the first truly stacked card of the summer.

Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will defend his UFC belt for the first time when he takes on the only man to ever defeat him, MMA superstar Urijah Faber.

That fight is worth a PPV by itself but the whole card is stacked with superstars and especially compelling matchups.

I am not just talking about the main card either. Every fight is awesome, all the way down to the first preliminary bout.

If you will not be able to see many fireworks on the Fourth of July, do not worry—UFC 132 on July 2nd is going to have all the fireworks you could possibly handle

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Arguably, many fans believe that while the victories of Mark Munoz and Kenny Florian cannot provide true dispute, The argument of Munoz and Florian earning 30-27 scores is definitely disputed as it seemed clear that Demian Maia and Diego “The Gun” Nunes won the first round of their respective bouts.

At this time, however, that argument is neither here nor there, as we must look forward into UFC 132 in a little bit less than three weeks instead of solidly planting ourselves in the memories of last night.

Headlined by a grudge match between current UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz and former WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber and co-headlined by a Fight of The Year candidate-on-paper in the long-awaited Middleweight collision between Wanderlei Silva and Chris Leben, the UFC 132 fight card will pick up where UFC 131 left off, focusing mostly on the Light-and-Lighterweight classes and hopefully elevate the momentum gained from last night’s card to a brand new level.

For a million-dollar card featuring some million-dollar fights—all for only about $45 out of your pocket—here now are some million-dollar predictions for the entire UFC 132 main card!

Tito Ortiz Lets It All Hang out on Twitter: Physically and Emotionally

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Tito Ortiz Lets It All Hang out on Twitter: Physically and Emotionally

News piece from early in June:

Former UFC champion Tito Ortiz is having a bad week on twitter. First, he has a spat with his girlfriend Jenna Jameson and then he has his phone hacked and a nude picture of him is sent to his followers.

Ortiz and Jameson recently took to twitter to air the differences. The folks over at FightOpinion compiled the better tweets:

Tito Ortiz:

@FreakyFella no sick of being treated like s**t with no support. U get to read half the s**t I go though.

Not nuts just done with the lies and deceit. The hand I was holding was bring me down now a will let go

Ok im done talking about this s**t. I found some s**t out that happen from a few friends. First time my bad ,second her bad ,third I should of believe the first time. Will find someone who respects and supports me. Life will go on! I will stay strong.

Jenna Jameson:

I am perfect, saying mean lies on twitter is wrong. I am a mother, and I love Tito and my children.

I love him, and he is angry. I stand behind him no matter how much he lashes out at me

I love @titoortiz and will fight for him forever. No matter what he sais

My children are my main priority, lies about fatherhood is yucky. Just be a dad and stop partying and train…your fight is soon.

I love @titoortiz and I would never disrespect him with another man. I’m a good girl, and mommy!

I want the real @titoortiz back. He used to be loving, I get how a lot of you think I’m garbage, but he’s me babies daddy, and I love him

Ortiz’s struggles with twitter continued on Thursday when, according to TMZ.com, a nude picture of Ortiz showed up on his twitter feed. The picture was quickly taken down with Ortiz then posting, “Someone hack my f**king phone.”

Ortiz will be fighting for his UFC career when he meets Ryan Bader at UFC 132 on July 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. UFC president Dana White has said that a loss at UFC 132 would most likely result in the promotion releasing the former champion.

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Bleacher Report’s Sal DeRose:

At the end of a busy month of June and the start of July, UFC 132 will take place in Las Vegas and feature the biggest 135-pound showdown in the history of the sport of MMA between, Urijah Faber and current bantamweight champion, Dominick Cruz.

These two fighters have met once before at the featherweight level, and will meet again come July 2nd. With some bad blood between the two, it should make for an interesting fight.

Then you have a battle between the big guys, former UFC light heavyweight champion, Tito Ortiz, and Ryan “Darth” Bader.

Along with that light heavyweight showdown you have a bout between middleweights, Chris Leben, and Wanderlei Silva.

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UFC 132 Fight Card and the Pros & Cons of Sharing July 2nd with HBO Boxing

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UFC 132 Fight Card and the Pros & Cons of Sharing July 2nd with HBO Boxing

Bleacher Report’s Dale De Souza:

Weeks ago, ESPN.com reported that the long awaited-boxing bout between WBA Heavyweight (200+ lbs.) Champion David Haye and IBF/IBO/WBO/The Ring Magazine’s Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko finally landed on a set date and venue.

The Heavyweight bout—arguably the first Heavyweight bout in years that any non-religious follower of Boxing has given a damn about—takes place on July 2 at the Hamburg Imtech Arena in Germany.

Now that’d be an event to get excited for if UFC 132 wasn’t emanating from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on the same night.

Having a Heavyweight fight go up against an already stacked fight card with a Bantamweight title fight falls under the category of “risky F’N business”, especially when said Bantamweight title fight included Dominick Cruz defending against The Fighting Pride of Sacramento, California, Urijah Faber.

Couple it in with Wanderlei Silva vs. Chris Leben, Dong Hyun Kim vs. Carlos Condit, and the returns of Evan Dunham and George Sotiropoulos to action after their first true losses (that is, IF you still think Dunham got screwed against Sean Sherk at UFC 119 last September), and what you have is an event that would have easily justified the decision to have Haye and Klitschko fight the weekend before—possibly somewhere in which the results won’t leak out before the fight airs.

Nonetheless, this fight airs on the same day as UFC 132, and that’s regardless of whether you find out the results of it before it happens or not.

It’s not a big issue—Juan Manuel Marquez fought Floyd Mayweather on the same night as UFC 103, and Manny Pacquiao’s systematic destruction of Antonio Margarito just happened to be on the night of UFC 122.

That, plus some of HBO’s free World Championship Boxing and Boxing After Dark events have fallen on the same day as MMA events as well.

Still, it’s boom or bust when this Heavyweight bout contends with UFC 132, and here is how.

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