{"id":299899,"date":"2019-01-29T07:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=299899"},"modified":"2019-01-29T07:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:22:55","slug":"tito-ortiz-calls-out-ryan-bader-bader-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/tito-ortiz-calls-out-ryan-bader-bader-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tito Ortiz calls out Ryan Bader, Bader responds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shortly after Ryan Bader became a two-division Bellator champion with a first-round knockout of heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko at Bellator 214, he was called out by former UFC light heavyweight champ Tito Ortiz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on Twitter, Ortiz announced his intention to fight Chael Sonnen in a &#8216;tune up fight,&#8217; and then take the Bellator light heavyweight title from Bader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So I tune up fight with \u201cchale\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChaelSonnen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChaelSonnen<\/a> than take the title from the champ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanbader?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RyanBader<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BellatorMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BellatorMMA<\/a> #2019<\/p>&mdash; Tito Ortiz (@titoortiz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/titoortiz\/status\/1089390930505822210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;So I tune up fight with \u201cchale\u201d [Chael Sonnen] than take the title from the champ [Ryan Bader].&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Tito Ortiz on Twitter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ryan Bader was asked about this callout from Tito Ortiz at the Bellator 214 press conference. Having lost to Ortiz in 2011, he says this is a fight he&#8217;d happily take. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHell, yeah,\u201d Bader said of this potential rematch (via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMAjunkie (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2019\/01\/tito-ortiz-targets-chael-sonnen-ryan-bader-scott-coker-responds-bellator-214\" target=\"_blank\">MMAjunkie<\/a>). \u201cAfter I won the title, I was bugging him. He was at the bar, we were both there, and I was like, \u2018Hey, you coming back, you coming back?\u2019 He\u2019s like \u2018I\u2019m done, man. I\u2019m done.\u2019 So, yeah, that\u2019d be fun. He has to come back and definitely prove himself. Obviously, that\u2019s a fight I don\u2019t dwell on. But a fight I want to get back, all my losses. It\u2019d be a fun a fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellator President Scott Coker also addressed a potential rematch between Ryan Bader and Tito Ortiz. He seemed open to the idea, though the notion of a rematch between Ortiz and Sonnen didn&#8217;t seem to appeal to him as much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have not had those conversations,\u201d Coker said. \u201cGeorge, his manager, has reached out and we said, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s talk after this fight is over.\u2019 But we\u2019ll see \u2013 fighting Chael, he\u2019s already done that. And to me, like, why would you want to rehash that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who do you want to see Ryan Bader fight next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on 1\/29\/2019.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Ryan Bader became a two-division Bellator champion with a first-round knockout of heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko at Bellator 214, he was called out by former UFC light heavyweight champ Tito Ortiz. 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