{"id":224877,"date":"2017-02-24T22:54:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T06:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=224877"},"modified":"2017-02-24T22:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T06:54:44","slug":"tito-ortiz-john-mccarthy-respond-chael-sonnens-recent-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chael-sonnen\/tito-ortiz-john-mccarthy-respond-chael-sonnens-recent-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Tito Ortiz & John McCarthy respond to Chael Sonnen’s recent claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, former UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen revealed on his podcast that Tito Ortiz actually verbally tapped out<\/a> in their Bellator 170 fight several weeks ago. <\/p>\n

He explained:<\/p>\n

\"Chael<\/p>\n

\u201cThe score is one-one between Tito and I and you always go into a rubber match. Everyone knows that. The only reason I kept my mouth shut at the Tito fight \u2013 look, Tito tapped in that fight. I knew Tito tapped when he tapped. I heard Tito verbally tap and I\u2019ve never said a word about it, privately to Tito at the press conference or to you guys. I never said anything and the reason is, first off, when you lose, you just take your loss. It\u2019s not a tap if the referee doesn\u2019t call it a tap so therefore, Tito didn\u2019t tap. I thought he tapped, and I let a move go. He verbally tapped, and I never said anything about it and the reason was, he quit the sport five seconds later. He quit the sport five seconds after I tapped and he quit the sport a minute and five seconds after he tapped. There was no rematch. There was nothing to build and no reason to tell the real story.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This of course prompted a response from both Ortiz, and referee ‘Big’ John McCarthy via social media:<\/p>\n

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.@ChaelSonnen<\/a> You're my BITCH!<\/p>\n

— Tito Ortiz (@titoortiz) February 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n