Tito Ortiz must remember what it’s like to be in holding so he took pity on Las Vegas murder suspect, Keith Harriman (49) who has been held on 12 Felony Counts in connection with a.
Tito Ortiz must remember what it’s like to be in holding so he took pity on Las Vegas murder suspect, Keith Harriman (49) who has been held on 12 Felony Counts in connection with a plot to murder his 27 year old son.
At a preliminary hearing in February, Dominick Harriman testified his father wanted him dead because he told insurance fraud investigators his father’s $160,000 burglary loss claim was a scam to feed a crack cocaine addiction. Dominick Harriman also said his father was angry because he had slept with both his dad’s ex-girlfriend and his ex-wife.
Dominick Harriman was shot at least nine times Aug. 27 at the used car dealership where he worked for his uncle, Wayne Harriman, at Nice Cars of Nevada, 3401 S. Decatur Blvd. The shooter has not been identified.
Bail was set at half a million dollars and Ortiz put up the bond. It was revealed that Ortiz has a long time relationship with Wayne Harriman, a used car dealership owner and the brother to the murder suspect. Ortiz may have felt he needed to help out the brothers as Las Vegas Review Journal reports:
…Wayne Harriman helped bridge a rift between Ortiz and UFC chairman Dana White that led to a six-fight contract.
(Chuck Liddell poses with ‘Taboo’, co-host of Our Time.)
We have no idea how most of these encounters came about — but we’re sure they were all fairly awkward. Here are 21 of our favorite photos of MMA fighters rubbing shoulders with reality show stars, B-list actors, and aging rock royalty. Ah, the perks of fame…
(Cain Velasquez: The meat in a douche sandwich.)
(Chuck Liddell poses with ‘Taboo’, co-host of Our Time.)
We have no idea how most of these encounters came about — but we’re sure they were all fairly awkward. Here are 21 of our favorite photos of MMA fighters rubbing shoulders with reality show stars, B-list actors, and aging rock royalty. Ah, the perks of fame…
(Cain Velasquez: The meat in a douche sandwich.)
(“…so then I snuck into Paul Walker’s trailer, put my balls on his forehead, and took a picture of it! You should have seen his face! Hahahaha! With my balls on it! Oh man!”)
(Rosie O’Donnell and her adopted son Urijah.)
(Tito Ortiz with Donnie Wahlberg, former New Kid on the Block and current brother of the guy who produces Entourage.)
(“Ay dawg, lemme use ‘Honky Cat‘ for my next walkout song.”)
(“Sure lady, I’ll sign your ti–HOLY FUCK YOU’RE CINDY CRAWFORD.”)
Filed under: UFC, NewsAfter making enough jokes at Tito Ortiz’s expense, UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione figured he should at least make an effort to meet the guy in person when he saw him at last week’s UFC fighter summit.
After making enough jokes at Tito Ortiz‘s expense, UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione figured he should at least make an effort to meet the guy in person when he saw him at last week’s UFC fighter summit.
As anyone who saw the YouTube video of their confrontation already knows, that introduction didn’t go so smoothly.
“I rip on Tito freely all the time, and I have no issues or qualms with ripping on him,” Mitrione told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour. “I do it publicly, I do it privately, I do it wherever. But I’d never met him before in person, so I kind of felt like I should at least honestly go and introduce myself to him, so that way he can never be like, ‘I’ve never met that coward and blah, blah, blah.’ I wanted to go up to him and be like, ‘Hey, I’m Matt. I’m the dude who throws heat on you.’
But as it turns out, Ortiz had either seen Mitrione’s cracks about him on ‘The Mitrione Minute’ segment of The MMA Hour, or had at least heard about them from someone else, because as soon as Mitrione extended his hand in greeting Ortiz rose out of his chair and shoved him, Mitrione said.
“What happened was, he was talking to Roy Nelson when I approached him. He was talking to Roy, he was sitting down, I walked up and extended my hand, said, ‘Hey, I’m Matt.’ As he stood up he said, ‘Yeah, I know who you are,’ and he…pushed me. All one movement. I was wearing my flip-flops like I always do because I’m a summer baby. I kicked my flip-flops off, licked my fingers like I did on The Ultimate Fighter, because I guess that’s a habit of mine, and I was like alright, let’s scrap.”
No one threw any actual blows – probably a good thing, since physical violence would have likely been frowned upon in the Red Rock Casino’s conference room – but the two engaged in a heated verbal battle that UFC heavyweight Roy Nelson captured on video and subsequently posted on YouTube.
Mitrione insisted that he never intended to get in any such confrontation with Ortiz when he approached him, but wasn’t about to back down after he’d been shoved, either.
“I started to square up a little bit, and then he kept saying, like anybody who doesn’t really want to fight, they’re like ‘hit me, hit me then, hit me.’ Well, that’s stupid. That’s why, in the video, I was like, ‘Well, you’re the one being aggressive. If you want to be aggressive, then let’s scrap. …I came and introduced myself. I didn’t come up here to fight you.'”
Ortiz’s main complaint, Mitrione said, was the fact that some of Mitrione’s jokes had targeted former porn star Jenna Jameson, who is the mother to Ortiz’s twin sons. This also rubbed some internet commenters the wrong way, but Mitrione said the real problem is people’s inability to distinguish between the private person and the public persona.
“I respect the fact that Tito is married to a woman named Jenna. I respect that. Jenna Jameson is a character. Jenna Massoli is his wife. And I understand that. …I don’t make fun of anybody’s wives; I made fun of a public character. And I understand that’s his baby mamma, or wife, or whatever she is to him. I understand that, so I can understand where there’s feelings and sentiment. …So all the white knights out there can realize, look, this is a character. Like people in my life didn’t get pissed off at individuals [for] saying I was a d-ckhead on the show, because I was a d-ckhead on ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’ But that was a character I was playing, it wasn’t me.”
After the two had their confrontation at the summit, Mitrione said he knew he needed to let UFC president Dana White know what had happened before he had the chance to get the wrong idea about the situation.
“Just to show that I am a professional, I sought out Mr. [Lorenzo] Fertitta and Dana after all that stuff. I went to go work out and Dana was there and I approached him and pulled him to the side and I was like, ‘I want you to know I’m sorry. I did not intend to disrespect your meetings. I didn’t intend for that to happen. I just walked up and introduced myself to him and that’s when all that stuff occurred, and I’m a grown-ass man and if Tito wanted to throw hands, then I’m sure as hell going to do that.'”
He and White talked it over, Mitrione said, and then he left the UFC president with one final word on the subject.
“At the end of it I was like, ‘Just to let you know, if Tito really wants to run his mouth about this…I will cut down to as close as to 205 as possible, or hopefully you’d let me do 225 as a catchweight, and I will kick his a–.’ So all these boys who say I’ll never fight him, I told Dana and I told Mr. Fertitta that I wanted to cut weight to whoop his a– if he would take that fight.”
Mitrione, who usually weighs in at around 260 pounds for his fights, would have quite a ways to go to get down to Ortiz’s weight. But the former NFL player said he’d already discussed the potential of just such a drastic cut with noted MMA nutritionist Mike Dolce.
For now though, Mitrione has other concerns. He’s slated to fight fellow heavyweight Christian Morecraft at a UFC Live event in late June, and so he doesn’t have the time or energy to worry too much about Ortiz, he said.
“I’m glad that this happened six weeks ahead of my fight and it’s going to die now, because I’ve got Chris Morecraft ahead of me, and Christian is a big-a– heavyweight. He’s a much bigger heavyweight than I am.”
As for Ortiz, Mitrione said that if the former light heavyweight champ still wants to press the issue, he’d be happy to take a catchweight fight and “retire Tito’s old a–.” But if Ortiz is willing to let bygones be bygones, so is he.
“I think that Tito didn’t necessarily want to fight me about it, but I think he felt like, as a man, he had to pop up and do something about it. And I respect that. I respect that completely. But if he’s not satisfied with what went on, if he’s not satisfied with his Twitter monologues or soliloquies or his wife’s…then we can scrap. If not, if you’re cool with it, then I’m cool with it too.”
Bleacher Report’s Mike Hodges:Tito Ortiz is no stranger in trash-talk. Following Matt Mitrone’s disparaging remarks regarding Ortiz’s on-again, off-again girlfriend and former adult film star, Jenna Jameson, “The Hunington Beach Bad Boy” wasn’t…
Following Matt Mitrone’s disparaging remarks regarding Ortiz’s on-again, off-again girlfriend and former adult film star, Jenna Jameson, “The Hunington Beach Bad Boy” wasn’t too pleased with the UFC heavyweight and proceeded to confront him.
Mitrione’s comments emerged during a segment on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani in March.
“I think that it’s a great promotion that they’re finally letting women fight for their man’s honor. I think that’s a great thing. We all know that Tito’s gonna give some type of excuse and back out, so Jenna’s gonna have to step in and fight Bader for Tito’s honor,” Mitrione said during his weekly segment of The Mitrione Minute, courtesy of CagePotato.com.
Mitrione is referring to Ortiz’s upcoming bout with Ryan Bader at UFC 132. Mitrione’s comment was referring to Ortiz’s history of not committing to fights and pulling out of them. Mitrione continued to poke fun at Ortiz’s expense, however this time, he turned his attention to his girlfriend.
Bleacher Report’s Mike Hodges:Lightweights Mike Brown and Nam Phan have recently been added to UFC 133, according to MMAJunkie.com.Brown is heading into this bout in a must-win situation, going 2-4 in his last six bouts. Brown last fought at UFC 125 …
Bleacher Report’s Mike Hodges:
Lightweights Mike Brown and Nam Phan have recently been added to UFC 133, according to MMAJunkie.com.
Brown is heading into this bout in a must-win situation, going 2-4 in his last six bouts. Brown last fought at UFC 125 in a bout that saw him on the losing end of a split decision to Diego Nunes. Brown followed that up with another decision loss, this time to Rani Yahya at UFC Fight Night 23.
Phan will be heading into this bout following a controversial split decision loss to Leonard Garcia at The Ultimate Fighter 12 Finale. According to MMAJunkie, Phan was scheduled to rematch Garcia at UFC Fight Night 24, but a foot injury forced him to withdraw.
The loss also puts Phan into a tough position, as he too will be desperately seeking a win after going win-less in three of his last four bouts.
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