Sports Untapped on Tito’s UFC postfight fit
By Jim Murphy February 8th, 2010Over at Sports Untapped, they take Tito to task and link to our article. As a bonus, they get in a good ‘Bullwinkle’ reference:
Wow. Talk about harsh. Tito waited until after UFC 109 to get his ‘revenge’ with his heckling and bird lobbing, a plot worthy of Boris and Natasha’s ongoing battle of wills against ‘Moose and Squirrel’. The mainstream sports media has picked up on the story, giving them the opportunity to make fun of not only the Coleman/Couture ‘old timers’ main event but Ortiz’s histrionics. Coming on the heels of NY Jets’ coach Rex Ryan getting in a few extended middle fingers of his own at a Strikeforce show, Tito makes for a pretty easy target.
I’d like to think this wasn’t a planned ‘angle’ but with the UFC you can never tell. Certainly, no one wants to see a Ortiz/Coleman fight and thankfully Dana White insisted at the press conference afterwards that Coleman was retired. Longtime foil Chuck Liddell has called out Tito–the two are opposing coaches on the upcoming season of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ and all of this could be a pitiful effort to generate ‘heat’ and increase ratings. It also runs the risk of resulting in another Ortiz/Liddell fight which no one wants to see either.
Funny article and a good website with a lot of coverage of handicapping and sports betting: