("Time it was and what a time it was…")
Contradicting earlier reports that had Tito Ortiz facing Forrest Griffin in a meaningless rubber match, MMAFighting.com has confirmed that Ortiz will instead face off against Matt Hamill at UFC 121…
Contradicting earlier reports that had Tito Ortiz facing Forrest Griffin in a meaningless rubber match, MMAFighting.com has confirmed that Ortiz will instead face off against Matt Hamill at UFC 121 (October 23rd; Anaheim, CA). The Huntington Beach Blah Blah hasn’t competed since his split decision loss to Griffin at UFC 106, and hasn’t won a fight since his third TKO victory over Ken Shamrock in October 2006. Hamill is coming off his majority decision over Keith Jardine at the TUF 11 Finale, which got the Dean of Mean bounced out of the UFC. Technically, Hamill has won his last four fights, including the Jon Jones DQ. If you’ll recall, Hamill was a member of Team Punishment on TUF 3, so this fight will have extra significance when Hamill beats Tito’s ass. In other UFC 121 booking news…
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We caught up with Forrest Griffin at the MMA Expo last month in Toronto (before news of his rumored third match-up with Tito Ortiz at UFC 121 was leaked) and we spoke with the former UFC light…
Remember that 90’s television show “Sliders”(no one would be terribly shocked if you don’t), where Jerry O’Connell and his crew used wormholes to slide between parallel universes and alternate histories? Extreme nerdiness aside, it was kind of cool, you know- what if the Soviet Union had conquered the U.S. etc? What if the Allies had […]
Remember that 90’s television show “Sliders”(no one would be terribly shocked if you don’t), where Jerry O’Connell and his crew used wormholes to slide between parallel universes and alternate histories? Extreme nerdiness aside, it was kind of cool, you know- what if the Soviet Union had conquered the U.S. etc? What if the Allies had lost WW II? That kind of ‘yeah I wonder’ stuff.
So where in the unholy hell are we going with this? Well, remember earlier this year when the internet was ablaze with speculation regarding the health of Tito Ortiz, and yadda, yadda, yadda, he was booted from TUF and didn’t fight Chuck Liddell? Well, what if that fight had happened in June? Would Chuck have handed Tito another ass whooping instead of being KTFO by Rich Franklin? Would Tito’s latest UFC stint already be on the ropes? Would people be talking about Chuck making another run instead of how he should retire? Alas, we’ll never know….(if you’re thinking about writing some sort of alternate MMA history script slowly move away from the keyboard now).
While Liddell still has yet to make a final decision as to whether or not he’s going to finally hang up the gloves, Ortiz has announced on his Twitter account, that it looks like his back could be ready for a return sometime this fall.
“Can I be ready by Oct 28th UFC at the Honda center? We will know in 10days!”
It’s going to be interesting to see who “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” will meet up with next. Would you be willing to bet the house it won’t be Liddell?
(Video courtesy YouTube/SenseiSPORTV)
Tito Ortiz recently appeared on Brazilian television show Sensei SPORTV and proclaimed himself the "Muhammad Ali of mixed martial arts." If by that he means he’s past his prime and is suffering from …
(Video courtesy YouTube/SenseiSPORTV)
Tito Ortiz recently appeared on Brazilian television show Sensei SPORTV and proclaimed himself the "Muhammad Ali of mixed martial arts." If by that he means he’s past his prime and is suffering from the effects of too many shots to the head, then we agree wholeheartedly.
Filed under: UFCLAS VEGAS — Jamie Yager knows that when he walks into the Pearl at the Palms to make his official UFC debut on Saturday night, he’ll be facing a crowd in the arena and an audience at home that has largely already made up its mind about…
LAS VEGAS — Jamie Yager knows that when he walks into the Pearl at the Palms to make his official UFC debut on Saturday night, he’ll be facing a crowd in the arena and an audience at home that has largely already made up its mind about him.
What bothers him is that, at least the way he sees it, they don’t know the guy they’re judging quite as well as they think they do.
“America thinks they know who you are based on a really small sample,” Yager said. “We filmed 12 weeks, 24 hours a day, and they showed 12 hours. Not even 12 hours [with commercials]. 44 minutes every week.”
("I pity the fool who makes fun of my scarf and inability to ignore the camera.")It didn’t take Quinton Rampage Jackson long after his unanimous decision loss to Rashad Evans at UFC 114 to pull a Tito Ortiz. Just two and a half week…
("I pity the fool who makes fun of my scarf and inability to ignore the camera.")
It didn’t take Quinton Rampage Jackson long after his unanimous decision loss to Rashad Evans at UFC 114 to pull a Tito Ortiz. Just two and a half weeks after the bout and Rampage has already formulated his own "cracked skull" defense.
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