Press Conference Drama...Oh, Tito

by Michael Rome on May 25, 2008 1:59 AM EDT in MMA News

There is bedlam at the post-fight presser, ensuring that Tito Ortiz will be the story coming out of UFC 84:

The former UFC light heavyweight champion, saying he was banned by UFC president Dana White, showed up uninvited as reporters were filing in.

He began to answer questions from a couple reporters before getting into an animated discussion with a UFC media relations employee.

Ortiz was told to leave, but refused after girlfriend Jenna Jameson told him to stay. The UFC decided to give Ortiz 10 minutes to speak before the official press conference, and Ortiz began answering questions....

A grinning Ortiz has been sitting at the press table since this went down; Four Las Vegas Metropolitan police officers were escoteed into the press room.

God I hope this is all on video.

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Please let there be someone there has a camera on their cell phone…

by Tonley on May 25, 2008 2:08 AM EDT reply actions

by Nick Thomas on May 25, 2008 2:15 AM EDT reply actions

FYI, linked story just got updated.

by swarmofkillermonkeys on May 25, 2008 3:08 AM EDT reply actions

That was a vicious knee.

I’ll follow Tito wherever he goes. He’s been good to the sport.

Dana weilds too much power over the fighter’s lives. This is a business and not about his ego.

by dohfil on May 25, 2008 4:06 AM EDT reply actions

Yes...

it is a business. Which means that if the UFC doesn’t want to pay Tito’s price. They are entitled to do so.

Contributing Editor - BloodyElbow.com - SBNation's mixed martial arts headquarters.

by Brent Brookhouse on May 25, 2008 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions

I don’t understand the Tito love. He has never been that exciting and has long gotten by on personality more than anything else. He comes off like an idiot in interviews and is rarely fun to watch inside the cage. He gets, in my opinion, far too much attention considering he’s just not a top level fighter and hasn’t been for years.

Intentional Blog on Balls

by Richard Wade on May 27, 2008 1:04 AM EDT up reply actions

Post Press Conference

by Nick Thomas on May 25, 2008 10:52 AM EDT reply actions

I have a feeling...

...that Tito will do anything Jenna tells him.

So even if he was interested in coming back to the UFC I can all but promise that Jenna will say no and he will listen.

Contributing Editor - BloodyElbow.com - SBNation's mixed martial arts headquarters.

by Brent Brookhouse on May 25, 2008 2:10 PM EDT reply actions

Tito is Dana's Bitch

Listening to Tito speak is not only unintelligible, it’s suspiciously like my 9 month-old baby crying. I have to admit I had a horrible feeling today, though – is it possible that Tito’s aggressiveness towards Dana isn’t just showmanship, and that he’ll stay with the UFC and be a heel, using the Dana/Tito ‘bad blood’ to hype fight after fight? I doubt it, and I sure hope it’s not true, because I love MMA for it’s real drama, not the drummed up shit. Tito can suck it, I hope he loses all of his fights until he finally contract the STD from hell from Jenna that puts him out of the sport. I’m kinda joking, but Tito does annoy me. Big fan of Jenna’s when she’s not talking.

by Jiiri on May 25, 2008 3:50 PM EDT reply actions