{"id":314261,"date":"2019-05-20T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=314261"},"modified":"2019-05-20T10:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:06:26","slug":"tito-ortiz-admits-dana-was-right-about-oscar-de-la-hoya-promoting-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tito-ortiz-admits-dana-was-right-about-oscar-de-la-hoya-promoting-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Tito Ortiz admits ‘Dana was right’ about Oscar De La Hoya promoting MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last November, long-time boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya promoted his first MMA event. The card, which was topped by a trilogy fight between aging UFC Hall of Famers Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, received plenty of backlash<\/a> \u2014 most notably from UFC President Dana White.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy wants to act like he\u2019s my competitor [promoting MMA],\u201d White told Yahoo! Sports<\/a> of De La Hoya’s MMA venture. \u201cI have a real business that I\u2019ve built over the last 18 years. A real business, and I can hit you with numbers for days about [how successful it is]. How much has Oscar De La Hoya reinvested into the sport of boxing? We\u2019ve reinvested millions and millions of dollars and we continue to do it every day. The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy wants to come out and tell lies and say things that make no sense when he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. He knows nothing about this sport. He doesn\u2019t know the [expletive] guys\u2019 names who are fighting on his card. He\u2019s a liar. He\u2019s a phoney and God help anybody who wants to go fight for Golden Boy. These fighters are grown men and women. All they have to do is take one meeting with Oscar De La Hoya and they\u2019ll see what he knows about MMA, which is absolutely [expletive] nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tito Ortiz, who knocked Liddell out in the main event of this card, initially vehemently supported Oscar De La Hoya. In hindsight, however, after a card that can only be called a pay-per-view disaster, Ortiz admits Dana White was accurate in his assessment of De La Hoya.<\/p>\n