{"id":220519,"date":"2017-02-01T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=220519"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:52:37","slug":"dana-white-no-way-ortiz-vs-sonnen-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-no-way-ortiz-vs-sonnen-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: &#8220;there&#8217;s no way&#8221; Ortiz vs. Sonnen was fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last month, a 42-year-old Tito Ortiz stepped into the cage for a final time against the 39-year-old Chael Sonnen. Ortiz won this fight in impressive fashion, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tito-ortiz\/video-tito-ortiz-taps-chael-sonnen\/\">tapping Sonnen with a rear-naked choke in the first round<\/a> to ride off into the sunset on a win.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Ortiz&#8217;s big win was marred by widespread speculation that the fight might have been <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chael-sonnen\/chael-sonnen-fixed-fight-allegations\/\">fixed<\/a>. Many fans, and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tito-ortiz\/mma-community-reacts-tito-ortiz\/\">even a few reputable MMA media members<\/a>, questioned the legitimacy of Ortiz&#8217;s win, saying that it didn&#8217;t look like his choke was properly locked up.<\/p>\n<p>According to UFC President Dana White, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tito-ortiz\/tito-ortiz-fixed-fight-allegations\/\">these claims are unfounded<\/a>. Speaking on the latest episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/ufc-unfiltered-ep-65\">UFC Unfiltered<\/a>\u00a0podcast, White said he tuned into this Bellator card to watch Tito&#8217;s retirement fight, and that there&#8217;s no way the fight was a work. His words (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/02\/ufc-boss-dana-white-watched-ortiz-sonnen-at-bellator-170-and-theres-no-way-in-hell-it-was-fixed\" target=\"_blank\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt was my first [time watching a] Bellator event. I watched it, and both guys are 40-something years old. It was basically a retirement fight, and a lot of people were calling it a fix. There\u2019s no way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHere\u2019s one of the things a lot of people don\u2019t realize about Tito Ortiz. Tito Ortiz \u2013\u00a0this f*cking guy is so strong. He put me in a neck crank one time and almost popped my f*cking neck off my shoulders. This guy is physically very strong. And I think his ground game is very underrated because Tito would always get that top position and ground-and-pound people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t think Chael has fought or won a fight since 2013, or that ballpark somewhere&#8230; You take that much time off, and that\u2019s what a fight\u2019s going to look like. There\u2019s no way in hell that was a work. I\u2019d love to come on here and sh*t all over Bellator, but there\u2019s no way that was a work. The thing you\u2019ve got to remember, he\u2019s a good wrestler, [but] never was Chael some big jiu-jitsu guy. And when Tito Ortiz is cranking your f*cking head off, you\u2019re 40 years old \u2026 maybe I should tap out here.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What did you think of Tito Ortiz&#8217;s defeat of Chael Sonnen? Do you agree with Dana White? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 2\/1\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last month, a 42-year-old Tito Ortiz stepped into the cage for a final time against the 39-year-old Chael Sonnen. Ortiz won this fight in impressive fashion, tapping Sonnen with a rear-naked choke in the first round to ride off into the sunset on a win. Unfortunately, Ortiz&#8217;s big win was marred by widespread speculation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":219043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,10188],"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>Dana White: &quot;there&#039;s no way&quot; Ortiz vs. Sonnen was fixed | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Unfortunately, Tito Ortiz&#039;s defeat of Chael Sonnen was marred by widespread speculation that the fight might have been fixed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-no-way-ortiz-vs-sonnen-fixed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White: &quot;there&#039;s no way&quot; 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