Thread: Ortiz v Griffin II

Tito Ortiz won't have to wait until Mark Coleman is healthy to make his return to the Octagon. The former light heavyweight champion will keep his scheduled return date of Nov. 21 at UFC 106, as he rematches another former champion in Forrest Griffin.

The bout was confirmed by Yahoo! Sports’ Kevin Iole on Thursday, citing UFC president Dana White as the source.

Ortiz will return to action nearly 18 months to the day he last stepped foot in the Octagon, dropping a unanimous decision to current 205-pound king, Lyoto Machida.

Since his exit from that fight, Ortiz flirted with several organizations after having back surgery to repair injuries he had been dealing with for years. In the end, Ortiz and UFC president Dana White put an end to their longtime feud, and the "Huntington Beach Bad Boy" re-signed with the promotional giant.

Just days ago, Ortiz lost his original opponent as Coleman dropped out of the fight due to a knee injury. The former champion was boastful about staying on the November card against another fighter.

In steps Griffin, who will see his first action since a devastating knockout loss to Anderson Silva in August.

Holding a 2-2 record in his last four fights, Griffin hopes to get back on track and also gain a measure of revenge. When he last fought Ortiz, at UFC 59, he came out on the short end of a split decision loss.

The bout will serve as the co-main event of the evening, which will be headlined by UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar defending his title against Shane Carwin.


Intresting, Good move for Griffin! Should be a great fight.

Surprised griffin took this fight, mentally he won't be in good shape but Tito will be ring rusty looking forward to it like.

This has potential for being avoid match up. If Ortiz is on form and Griffen will want to prove himself, not just to fans but to himself. I Carwin doesn't beat Lezza either. I want DosSantos to get the girt of Lezzas chin.

I honestly dont think iv seen any interviews with Forest since his loss to Silva, is there any out there ???

Originally Posted by 1927

I honestly dont think iv seen any interviews with Forest since his loss to Silva, is there any out there ???

There are a few text interviews but I dont think iv seen any video ones yet

Only stupid ones where he says he ran to get a suck of the questioners ma.

heres an interview, and forrest looked awarkward as hell, like he isnt over the spider fight at all. heres the link
Forrest Griffin post UFC 101 EXCLUSIVE! - Online Download Torrent Stream

Originally Posted by rsp84

heres an interview, and forrest looked awarkward as hell, like he isnt over the spider fight at all. heres the link
Forrest Griffin post UFC 101 EXCLUSIVE! - Online Download Torrent Stream

thanks for the link .....

that was absolutley mental ...... forest seemed to be off his freakin head

and looked fat as fcuk and by his own admission has not been training ... is this Ortiz fight defo on ????

the video was posted end of december but he looked a million miles away from any fight

sad sight ....

Can you blame him? He went into the Silva fight thinking he could possibly get something from it. Silva basically picked him apart. Getting beat by Silva is enough to drive some people out the sport .

I think that Tito has a great chance of pulling off a win here, Forrest's confidence is most probably completely shot after the beating he took off Anderson Silva. I'm looking forward to seeing Tito back in the octagon personally- always good entertainment value!