10 Things UFC Want You To Forget About Tito Ortiz

Double figure things UFC would love you to forget about the suitably nicknamed Huntington Beach Bad Boy.

By Sam Heard /

The UFC is at an interesting crossroads as a brand. In their bid to receive universal recognition as a legitimate sport and not the bloody spectacle of days gone by, UFC President Dana White and the Fertitta brothers are eager to foreground the squeaky-clean fighters of the sport who make their boxing counterparts look so thuggish. The likes of Georges St. Pierre, Anthony Pettis and newly-crowned Bantamweight king T.J Dillashaw all spring to mind as being the archetypal baby-faces the UFC is ever more keen to be known for. This does however mean that the old-school fighters with whom the UFC first amassed so much notoriety no longer have a place in the promotion. The UFC and Dana White seem very eager for the legends of these more brutish fighters to be swept under the rug as the sport and its premier promotion garner more and more acceptance as a mainstream sport. Of these early fighters, none is more at loggerheads with the UFC than Tito Ortiz. The former Light Heavyweight Champion was dominant for a long time in the UFC thanks to his strength, supreme athleticism, world class collegiate wrestling and heavy ground-and-pound. Tito Ortiz is in a very public battle with Dana White concerning how the UFC are increasingly trying to unwrite the former champ from the annals of UFC history. There are many things the UFC would certainly love you to forget about the suitably nicknamed Huntington Beach Bad Boy €“ here are the 10 which they would erase first: