Tito Ortiz Likes To Create New Games And Have A Good Cry Before Demolishing Dudes

A profile of MMA fighter Tito Ortiz written up by the LA Times’ TJ Simers is like a bad car crash involving a Maserati. You know Simers is going to get ugly and destroy Ortiz–a fighter in a sport the writer knows nothing about, and whose purpose of the article is to promote an upcoming bout–but you can’t help but read. Luckily, the Times scribe didn’t get too ill on his subject and even was able to glean a couple of key points about Ortiz we weren’t privy to–and really might not have wanted to in any other context–like the obvious affect blows to the head are causing Mr. Jenna Jameson.

You’ve got to be a dummy to step into the octagon, but this really is a dummy, trainer Saul Soliz waving a rubber dummy in front of Ortiz and allowing him to punch and kick at will. When the opponent doesn’t fight back, this sport isn’t all that rough.
“It’s like checkers and chess,” Ortiz is saying, and as you can see, sometimes these guys get their bells rung.

“If I said I was not scared, I’d be lying,” Ortiz says. “When I come out to start the fight, you will see — I will be crying. It’s the fear leaving my body.”

Hey, we have something in common–it’s like us before every date, and we usually end up just as internally beaten afterwards.
Ultimate fighter Tito Ortiz shows many sides [LA Times]
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