Ortiz: Couture “My Hardest Fight”
Posted by Chad Edward on April 30th, 2008In a Q’n'A with British Newspaper The Sun, Fighters.com’s ninth-ranked light heavyweight “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz claimed, “My hardest fight was with Randy Couture. He beat me in a five-round decision and he took my championship belt from me and it really, really sucks. I had so much training and it was a terrible loss.”
Ortiz and “The Natural” Randy Couture (16-8) cranked out five rounds in September 2003 while Ortiz was at the top of his game, having dispatched six consecutive challengers with names such as tenth-ranked light heavyweight “The Axe Murderer” Wanderlei Silva (31-8-1), Yuki Kondo (48-21-6), IFL Light Heavyweight Champion “The Janitor” Vladimir Matyushenko (21-3), and MMA pioneer “The World’s Most Dangerous Man” Ken Shamrock (26-13-2).
Ortiz also paid respects to Shamrock and Royce Gracie (14-3-3).
“The first thing I really looked at was Royce and Ken Shamrock - they were the two big names in the UFC, great athletes.
“Royce was the guy who was submitting all the wrestling guys with them being on top.
“I really look up to him - if it wasn’t for him our sport wouldn’t be where it is now. Royce, myself, Ken Shamrock, Frank Shamrock, Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell are the names that built the sport that is today.”
allteeth said:
Titos throwing the “friendly” net out to try and garner possible new and returning fans to the fold. Nevermind that he hasn’t fought in a while and is known usually as a disrespectful bastard. Bottom line, he may be a bastard, but that bastard can fight. We’ll see if he has any rust from laying around with his porn star squeeze.
ddn said:
Ortiz is done for. No one cares.
*yawn*
giga said:
Ortiz is awesome!
sacred04 said:
Ortiz is a prick and showed no respect for Shamrock, Whered come from all of a sudden?