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GSPALLTHEWAY · 06-05-2007, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by MMA_Fanatic

Yeah, he's had some great challanges along the way

with only the two losses:

Evan Tanner (Shouldn't fight at LHW)
Elvis Sinosic (Who hasn't beatin Elvis)
Vladimir Matyushenko
Ken Shamrock
Randy (Loss to a quality LHW)
Chuck Liddell (Loss to a quality LHW)
Patrick Cote (Who lost to Chris Leben)
Vitor Belfort (Now fighting in Cage Rage)
Forrest Griffin (And > 50% think Forest won)
Ken Shamrock (Not washed up...)
Ken Shamrock (Ken was probably the #2 LHW at this point...)
Chuck Liddell (Loss to a quality LHW)

your just being overly negative... bottom line is over the years tito has been at or near the top year after year after year.... it deserves some respect, since chuck and randy are the only other 2 to stay close to the top for that long... His 3 losses are to quality LHW.. now if he beats rashad im sure people are going to belittle that win as well... regardless, everyone here should be intelligent enough to give him some respect as a top level fighter

H@mmerM@n · 06-05-2007, 09:18 PM

nice read thanks for the link

sidewindergunnar · 06-06-2007, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Todthebod

I hope titio knows that his next fight and maybe two are do or die. He has to enter the ring with the ferocity of the old tito and I think he can eventually win the LHC on a good day.

yeah its do or die, i dont know if he can with hit title back but if the old tito could come back he'd give it a hell of a run

SLICC · 06-06-2007, 08:57 AM

Can somebody tell me how to get the video avaters, The file size is to large.

MMA_Fanatic · 06-06-2007, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by GSPalltheway

your just being overly negative... bottom line is over the years tito has been at or near the top year after year after year.... it deserves some respect, since chuck and randy are the only other 2 to stay close to the top for that long... His 3 losses are to quality LHW.. now if he beats rashad im sure people are going to belittle that win as well... regardless, everyone here should be intelligent enough to give him some respect as a top level fighter

No, not being overly negative, I am being overly sarcastic. Besides Randy and Chuck, Tito's wins are against talent that is not considered top 10 or top 5 talent.

To better his stock (instead of fighting Shamrock 3 times), he could have fought legitimate fights against Babalu and Jeremy Horn. But did he ask for those fights? Nope.

If he beats Rashad, I will be impressed. I think the level of Rashad's wrestling skills will be the first that Tito will have seen in some time and will overwhelm him.

BTW, someone mentioned he has one more fight left on this contract... He actually has two, if Dana holds him to it...

earvinarp · 06-06-2007, 11:14 AM

The trashing that he gave Forrest in the first round will go down in history as a clear example of devastating domination over a same weight class fighter. That he gassed out after that is fact (and I know some will say that the fight has three rounds and blah blah blah), but he certainly proved who the better fighter was and deserved the win. And, for those who do not seem to recall now, Forrest was perceived as a much larger threat then than he is now after losing to Jardine.

GeorgeXVX · 06-06-2007, 11:16 AM

thanks for the read!

earvinarp · 06-07-2007, 12:57 AM

BTW, for those who have forgotten, Tito has only lost to 4 fighters: Liddell, Couture, F. Shamrock (3 top of the top fighters) and Mezger when he was a kid, in his second fight.

Maybe Ortiz is a genius when it comes to managing his career, but I do not think Evans has faced anybody of the quality of the first 3 (or of Ortiz for that matter).

In mma anything can happen and Evans may score a victory but, if you are looking at the numbers and want to bet some cash, bet it on Ortiz. Especially is they get carried away and put Tito in an underdog position, with a nice payout.