Before I thought he was just a prankster, playing to the cameras, but aftter seeing how he backed out of that boxing match with Dana White after Dana trained for 7 months as shown in that documentary, I think he is a real jerk.
I can understand the "playing mind games" with another MMA fighter he is about to fight, but what's the point of doing that to Dana?
2007-04-16 18:45:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
I like Tito, I am a fan, he has had some great fights, he is always good for a laugh. Personally, I am more pissed at the UFC for taking an hour and a half of my time to air that stupid special that served no purpose except for Dana White to sniff his own farts. I have been a big Tito fan for years, I do not think we have heard the last of it or even both sides of the story.
2007-04-17 02:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by Chris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dana summed it up at the end of the show. It was a lose lose for Tito with nothing to gain. In way he did win. Think about it. He cost Dana Money and time. He also can say on a positive note that he got Dana to get back into shape. Which some might say is a gift to Dana along with not getting beat up. Dana also stated that he wasn't that good of a boxer and didn't have the heart of a fighter. He didn't want to fight but didn't want to seems weak. I do agree with the other person who said that they felt like Dana and the UFC wasted our time with the show. He could have just stated what happened on a blog if anyone cared.
2007-04-17 14:27:38 · answer #2 · answered by looking4answers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. I know about the trash talking he does before fights and know about the bad feelings with Dana. I do think he has a good side to him that he is afraid to let others see for fear of it being viewed as a weakness. When he was a coach on TUF, I believe we saw more of the less arrogant and selfish side of Tito. Since some of the fighters still train with him, I would like to think that he's not as big of a jerk that he appears to be and hope the trash talk is only part of his HB Bad Boy rep.
2007-04-17 20:29:40 · answer #3 · answered by Mariposa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pres would have prob won anyways if people knew anything about boxing or punching they would look at Tito an be like wow that guy is babysteps without wrestling. Just watchin that special you can tell Dana has more latent boxing ability, try and watch Tito double triple up his left or right hook or throw 4 jab to lead its more like jab, straight, jab, straight, jab, straight. / you cant get injured in 3 rounds of boxing unless he was planning on going into a coma after/ I dont like Tito because he only has 15 wins somethin an he thinks hes King ******* tut i hope Rashad Evans knocks him out
2007-04-17 02:14:21 · answer #4 · answered by Whitaker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The main reason Tito backed out of that fight was because it was going to be sanctioned by the NSAC & Tito just wanted to be a him & Dana thing. Tito's still a young guy so he just has to put this behind him & move on to get back to the top of the Light-Heavyweight division.
2007-04-17 08:02:32 · answer #5 · answered by scorpion187us 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know him personally, but anyway, his excuse to not box Dana was to consentrate on his next fight. He didn't want to risk injury fighting Dana when he's got a big fight against Rashad Evans in a couple of months.
That's what he said anyway.
2007-04-17 01:57:59 · answer #6 · answered by MoMoney23 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tito Ortiz is serious. I'd rather get run over by a truck than get in the ring with that guy!
2007-04-17 01:50:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never met him or had a conversation with him, so I don't have any idea what he is like personally.
To judge anyone's personal character without actually knowing that person is a very shallow and immature thing for anyone to do.
2007-04-17 10:09:37 · answer #8 · answered by JV 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think he's a monkey who doesn't understand the first thing about the essence of martial arts. I could say the same for most all of those clowns.
2007-04-20 10:29:58 · answer #9 · answered by Evan S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well personally I never met him. I know someone who has and he said Tito was very cool and good with his fans.
2007-04-17 11:43:32 · answer #10 · answered by Bruce Tzu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋