{"id":123225,"date":"2014-12-19T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T20:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=123225"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:00:50","slug":"needed-tito-ortiz-declined-ufc-lawsuit-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/needed-tito-ortiz-declined-ufc-lawsuit-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tito Ortiz  &#8220;wants to work things out&#8221; with the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tito-Ortiz.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119203\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tito-Ortiz.png\" alt=\"Tito Ortiz\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tito-Ortiz.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tito-Ortiz-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tito-Ortiz-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYes, (Tito was approached to be included in the lawsuit). He felt that it was just best to not be a part of that suit. Obviously, everybody wants a better situation for the fighters, as far as pay and benefits. But Tito just felt that at that particular time, he wanted to opt out. Because mainly, they were using him for the publicity aspect, and he didn\u2019t want to lend his name to it.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cHe feels that he\u2019s building bridges with Zuffa, and he didn\u2019t want to be the face of a lawsuit against them, because he\u2019d like to work things out and have a professional relationship with that organization in the future.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an interesting statement to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/12\/ex-champ-tito-ortiz-was-approached-to-participate-in-ufc-class-action-suit-and-declined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>&#8216;s Steven Morrocco, Tito&#8217;s longtime attorney George Prajin discussed the recent class-action lawsuit against the UFC and why Ortiz won&#8217;t be partaking.<\/p>\n<p>Surprised?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYes, (Tito was approached to be included in the lawsuit). He felt that it was just best to not be a part of that suit. Obviously, everybody wants a better situation for the fighters, as far as pay and benefits. But Tito just felt that at that particular time, he wanted to opt out. Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":119203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tito Ortiz &quot;wants to work things out&quot; with the UFC | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tito&#039;s longtime attorney George Prajin discussed the recent class-action lawsuit against the UFC and why Ortiz won&#039;t be parta... 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