Matt Mitrione willing to cut to 205 to fight Tito Ortiz
Matt Mitrione is a regular on The MMA Hour and yesterday he some explaining to do after his altercation with Tito Ortiz at the UFC Fight Summit in Las Vegas last week. A few weeks ago Mitrione talked some smack about Jenna Jameson to which Ortiz took offense to. Ortiz and Jameson have never had the perfect relationship but right now they are getting along better than the Schwarzeneggers. The two got into it briefly at the Summit but were quickly seperated (see the video below).
“I rip on Tito freely all the time, and I have no issues or qualms with ripping on him. I do it publicly, I do it privately, I do it wherever. But I’d never met him before in person, so I kind of felt like I should at least honestly go and introduce myself to him, so that way he can never be like, ‘I’ve never met that coward and blah, blah, blah.’ I wanted to go up to him and be like, ‘Hey, I’m Matt. I’m the dude who throws heat on you.’ What happened was, he was talking to Roy Nelson when I approached him. He was talking to Roy, he was sitting down, I walked up and extended my hand, said, ‘Hey, I’m Matt.’ As he stood up he said, ‘Yeah, I know who you are,’ and he…pushed me. All one movement. I was wearing my flip-flops like “I kicked my flip-flops off, licked my fingers like I did on The Ultimate Fighter, because I guess that’s a habit of mine, and I was like alright, let’s scrap. I started to square up a little bit, and then he kept saying, like anybody who doesn’t really want to fight, they’re like ‘hit me, hit me then, hit me.’ Well, that’s stupid. That’s why, in the video, I was like, ‘Well, you’re the one being aggressive. If you want to be aggressive, then let’s scrap. …I came and introduced myself. I didn’t come up here to fight you’.”
“Just to show that I am a professional, I sought out Mr. Fertitta and Dana after all that stuff. I went to go work out and Dana was there and I approached him and pulled him to the side and I was like, ‘I want you to know I’m sorry. I did not intend to disrespect your meetings. I didn’t intend for that to happen. I just walked up and introduced myself to him and that’s when all that stuff occurred, and I’m a grown-ass man and if Tito wanted to throw hands, then I’m sure as hell going to do that.’”
“At the end of it I was like, ‘Just to let you know, if Tito really wants to run his mouth about this…I will cut down to as close as to 205 as possible, or hopefully you’d let me do 225 as a catchweight, and I will kick his ass.’”
Mitrione would be a bad matchup for Ortiz if Ortiz went up in weight. I don’t think Mitrione could make 205 but I don’t think Ortiz will beat Ryan Bader and keep his spot in the UFC for very much longer.
May 17th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Oh ok so this was just a publicity stunt to lead into a fight that may happen….WTF is the UFC going all WWE now trying to make beef/drama to hype fights.
If anyone would be willing to do this it would be these two meatheads…pun intended.
They got a good camera guy too, swapped out his real cam for a cell cam and BOOM you got a bona fide Viral video!!!
I say this cause at the fighter summit they were told they could be paid for how much they pimp themselves on twitter and the such.
taken from another mma site:
“At the UFC Fighter Summit, the fighters learned that not only are they encouraged to utilize their Twitter and Facebook accounts, but they would even be paid for their time.
With bonuses totaling $240,000 a year (divvied up amongst the top performers), the UFC will dole out money for fighters who add followers and are deemed great at social networking. It’s really a revolutionary step for a major sports brand to reward athletes instead of penalizing them for embracing the social network.”
May 18th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
You are an idiot if you think it was a publicity stunt, tito is a d!ck and mitrione is a douche, this is how they act in real life. Why would the UFC try to hype a catchweight that has no implications whatsoever, plus its bad for business, strikeforce did it and ruined their company, plus everyone knows that Tito would get destroyed!!