{"id":333837,"date":"2019-12-02T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T18:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=333837"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T18:16:58","slug":"tito-ortiz-says-he-could-beat-jon-jones-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tito-ortiz-says-he-could-beat-jon-jones-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Tito Ortiz says he could beat Jon Jones right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tito Ortiz is preparing for his fight against Alberto Del Rio on Dec. 7, but he is dreaming of another bout. That is against UFC light heavyweight champion, Jon Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz believes it would be a competitive fight and one that he could win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I can beat Jon Jones,\u201d Ortiz said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VsuWIcKqa7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ Sports<\/a>. &#8220;I think I have a good chance, I really do think I\u2019ve got a good chance. If people say, &#8216;Oh, Tito, bulls**t, you\u2019re over the hill,&#8217; whatever. Come to my camp. Come train with me, come wrestle with me, come do jiu-jitsu with me. Watch my weight training. Watch my biking and stairs that I do. I push myself harder than I pushed myself through my whole career. I\u2019m doing amazing. My mind is in the right place, my body is in the right place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz believes his fighting style would give Jones problems. Specifically, he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/tito-ortiz-i-would-have-a-great-chance-against-jon-jones\/\">says his pressure would be huge<\/a> as he would make &#8220;Bones&#8221; fight his fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come on, why wouldn\u2019t I? Pressure, pressure, pressure,&#8221; Ortiz said. &#8220;You stay in that angle, the outside reach of him, you\u2019ve got problems with it. You can\u2019t just sit there and play his game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the primes of their careers, it would no doubt have been an interesting bout. Tito Ortiz believes Jon Jones was the best of all-time, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/traces-of-m3-metabolite-detected-in-two-jon-jones-drug-tests-ahead-of-ufc-235\/\">but after the failed drug tests<\/a> he tarnished his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, it seems highly unlikely the two will ever fight as Ortiz <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tito-ortiz\/tito-ortiz-is-a-massive-betting-favorite-to-beat-alberto-del-rio-in-combate-americas-fight\/\">is set for the first of three fights in Combate Americas<\/a>. Jones, meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/mike-winkeljohn-says-jon-jones-loves-dominick-reyes-matchup\/\">is set to defend his light heavyweight title against Dominick Reyes<\/a> in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/event\/ufc-246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFC 247<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think would win between Tito Ortiz and Jon Jones if they fought right now?<\/p>\n<p><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> on 12\/2\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tito Ortiz is preparing for his fight against Alberto Del Rio on Dec. 7, but he is dreaming of another bout. That is against UFC light heavyweight champion, Jon Jones. Ortiz believes it would be a competitive fight and one that he could win. &#8220;I think I can beat Jon Jones,\u201d Ortiz said to TMZ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":333840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10091,10188,39610],"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 says he could beat Jon Jones right now | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tito Ortiz is preparing for his fight against Alberto Del Rio on Dec. 7, but he is eyeing another bout against UFC light heavyweight champion, Jon Jones.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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