Tito Ortiz vs. Dana White Update!

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I’m sure you have all seen/heard about this before, but seeing as how this is somewhat of an update I figured I’d post it.

http://www.mma-fighter.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20204

Guess the fight is actually going to happen. Should be pretty entertaining to say the least.

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This would be the only time in my life I ever root for Tito.

Yeah…I hate Dana White THAT bad.

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I’m no fan of Dana, but I don’t get the outright hate.

Sure, he’s an attention whore, but he’s nowhere near as bad as Gary Shaw or Jerry Millen. If it weren’t for Dana and his obsessive promotion of the UFC, MMA on basic cable wouldn’t exist, EliteXC wouldn’t exist, and PrideFC would never have crossed the Pacific.

I for one am thankful to Dana White for bringing MMA out of the dark ages in the United States.

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[quote]Steve4192 wrote:
I’m no fan of Dana, but I don’t get the outright hate.

Sure, he’s an attention whore, but he’s nowhere near as bad as Gary Shaw or Jerry Millen. If it weren’t for Dana and his obsessive promotion of the UFC, MMA on basic cable wouldn’t exist, EliteXC wouldn’t exist, and PrideFC would never have crossed the Pacific.

I for one am thankful to Dana White for bringing MMA out of the dark ages in the United States.[/quote]

I think that people that have a problem with him haven’t seen how bad professional boxing promotion is…I don’t have an issue with him myself. I never thought I would get to watch MMA in any form for free, I always thought it would remain an esoteric sport.

I’m not a big fan of TUF but I like to watch the training and the last 10 minutes when they actually fight.

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[quote]medevac wrote:
I think that people that have a problem with him haven’t seen how bad professional boxing promotion is…I don’t have an issue with him myself. I never thought I would get to watch MMA in any form for free, I always thought it would remain an esoteric sport.
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I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. You have to know just how great boxing was in that era to appreciate the hell hole it has become.

And yeah - Give White his props for making UFC what is has become, and what he has done to make it a more mainstream.

But I can’t get past his fat, bald head on macking for the camera every 13.4 seconds.