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00:00The Hot H&B, Bad Boy, Tito Ortiz!
00:13Bombastic bravado is his trademark.
00:15Don't blink!
00:16This shit's gonna be over quick.
00:17The Bad Boy.
00:18There's no middleweights out there who are gonna challenge him at all.
00:20Loud and obnoxious.
00:21That does not work!
00:22Conceited.
00:23Rude.
00:24The old Ken Slamcock, or excuse me, Shamrock!
00:26You either loved him or you hated him.
00:28Tito Ortiz helps launch the UFC by igniting some of the promotion's most polarizing grudges.
00:34Tito had a reputation of disrespecting guys after he wins.
00:39I was just happy to have the chance to go out there and show people what I could do to
00:44him.
00:44But Tito's most heated rivalry is not against another fighter.
00:49Dana was his manager. Now he's the boss.
00:51They started out as friends. They definitely ended up as enemies.
00:55He's a f***ing buffoon.
00:56You know Dana, stop me up, listen.
00:58Tito also battles against the price of fame.
01:01You getting invested, Tito?
01:03I knew I didn't do anything.
01:04But just to be accused of something I didn't do?
01:07Why?
01:09Tito's decision to change careers.
01:11He was going to politics and I said shut the front door.
01:14Just think about what they could dig up.
01:16Does little to change the narrative.
01:21The council was considering stripping his title.
01:24Running for city council.
01:26The worst decision that I ever did.
01:28Tito's just a really dumb human being.
01:30How did Tito Ortiz go from UFC superstar to punchline?
01:35Very, very f***ing stupid.
01:37I know where to poke the bear.
01:38I should poke the bear as many times as I did though.
02:03I think I was about five shooting a shotgun and they put me on my ass.
02:10My dad was a hunter and he wanted to provide for the family.
02:14He was a normal guy.
02:15He was a hard working man.
02:16And my mother too at the same time.
02:17My brothers were a part of my life at that time.
02:20I had a whole family.
02:22Caring, loving.
02:23I just remember it because that was the good times.
02:27I'm Tito Ortiz, the Huntington Beach bad boy.
02:30Former light heavyweight champion.
02:31UFC hall of famer.
02:33Proud father.
02:34Proud businessman.
02:35This is a story you're going to love.
02:37Born Jacob Ortiz in Huntington Beach, California.
02:41And nicknamed Tito by his father.
02:43He learns early how quickly good things can be taken away.
02:47Life changed when I was seven years old.
02:49Everything got turned upside down.
02:51My father, all of a sudden when he had a hernia.
02:54And they put him on morphine.
02:56But my father's brother turned him on heroin.
02:58Soon, both of Tito's parents are addicted.
03:02While his three older brothers find refuge with a family friend.
03:06Tito remains with his parents.
03:08Bouncing between motels.
03:10Relatives' couches.
03:11And finally, a tiny trailer in Santa Ana.
03:15We literally had to boil water to have hot water.
03:17Candle lights would have electricity.
03:20I remember staying on Newport Pier overnight.
03:23Selling fish to feed myself.
03:26I was getting away from what was in Santa Ana.
03:29I remember them yelling really loud and thinking in my mind.
03:31I was like, God, I wish they wouldn't do that.
03:34He seeks refuge out in the increasingly dangerous streets.
03:38Gang violence has claimed another innocent life.
03:40When I was 13, there was a gang F troop that I was a part of.
03:44One day, I was hanging out with a few of my buddies.
03:46One of my friends, Jesse, was sitting in front of me.
03:49A car pulled up.
03:50And he says, where are you from, my son?
03:52And when he said that, all I heard was, pop, pop, pop.
03:57Jesse got hit.
03:58Guns keep blasting.
04:00I could hear the bullets hitting the concrete.
04:02I could run into my house and tell my mom.
04:05One of my friends just got shot.
04:07Drove around and he could carry away in a body bag.
04:10It was just heartbreaking.
04:14That's what my mother told my father that either you get sober, I'm taking her son, I'm giving him a
04:18better life right now.
04:19He doesn't.
04:19My dad chose heroin.
04:21And she and Tito leave.
04:23It was hard.
04:24It was really hard.
04:25I hated him.
04:27We moved back to Huntington Beach and life changed.
04:30But not right away.
04:32I was the bad kid in school.
04:34I was getting detentions.
04:35I had the most in my junior high school.
04:38If you can get that type of kid that's going through some rough stuff and you can channel him, man,
04:45sky's the limit for him.
04:46I'm Paul Herrera.
04:47Was Tito Ortiz's high school wrestling coach and was involved in his MMA career.
04:52I had already been asking questions around school like, who are the toughest guys?
04:56And that's how Tito's name came up.
04:59Paul sees why at the very first practice.
05:01This very tall kid, very strong, very muscular.
05:04He was handling anyone that was going against him without any experience.
05:09He would win and he just couldn't help it.
05:11He just showboat.
05:12The attention that I got in wrestling was, go Tito, you can do this.
05:16Go, go, go, go.
05:17Awesome job.
05:18High fives.
05:19And I could ride on.
05:20That was something that I loved.
05:22When you're being recognized, you're going to put some sauce on it.
05:25And that's what he did.
05:26I wrestled and it saved my life.
05:30First, by earning him a scholarship to Golden West College.
05:34Where he builds a record of 56-2.
05:37Becoming a two-time All-American.
05:39His wrestling abilities draw tension.
05:42But Tito works at enhancing his appeal.
05:44Nice to dye my hair different colors.
05:46That way I can get an image.
05:48Like, who's that guy?
05:48While Tito runs up the winds in college, his first wrestling coach, Paul Herrera, is now training fighters in the
05:55burgeoning and still controversial sport of mixed martial arts.
05:59That's when Paul Herrera called me and I was like, hey, can you come train to Tank?
06:04Tank is Tank Abbott.
06:06The infamous trash-talking brawler who is one of the UFC's first breakout stars.
06:11I watched Tank fight UFC 6.
06:13He literally punched the guy and the guy just fell and he punched him again and he was like, skipped
06:18on the floor.
06:19Oh my God.
06:21He's not going to punch me, right?
06:22He goes, no.
06:23Just wrestle him.
06:24So I was like, let's give it a try.
06:25In this whole summer, I'll come back down here and just going to Tank Abbott.
06:27So, see what's up.
06:28It's hard to find partners.
06:30They were terrified.
06:31Like, I'm going to get beat up.
06:32And you would.
06:34I learned super fast.
06:35I was big.
06:36I was strong as hell.
06:37That's when I told Paul that I want to try this fighting thing out.
06:41On May 30th, 1997, Tito attends UFC 13 as part of Team Tank.
06:47Tito goes, possibly as an alternate.
06:51And when a fighter on the card gets hurt.
06:53It's like, Tito, you got the opportunity.
06:55Let's go.
06:55We've got an update.
06:57Joe Rogan, what's going on?
06:58Ensign Inoue, the earlier winner, is out.
07:00We told you.
07:00You might get in and you're getting in.
07:03And Tito Ortiz will be replacing him.
07:05He was not ready for that.
07:07I didn't want to make a mistake.
07:09I threw up.
07:10Wasn't doing well.
07:11My brother Joe was with me.
07:13I'm like, Joe, I got to go with Tank.
07:15Go back there and straighten Tito out.
07:17And then my brother slaps him real hard.
07:19Dude, look at this guy.
07:21This red-headed kid.
07:22Beat him up.
07:23It is first ever UFC.
07:25To me, the guy was trying to take my lunch money.
07:27That was my mentality.
07:28I remember looking across and going, I'm going to smash this guy.
07:31A lot of left hands landed by Tito Ortiz.
07:34Oh, some bad ones to the face.
07:35Tito wins the fight in 31 seconds.
07:39I just thought in my mind, that was easy.
07:41Ortiz wins.
07:42It got people's attention.
07:43Hey, this guy can fight.
07:44My name's Big John McCarthy.
07:46I referee Tito Ortiz more than anyone, so I know exactly what he's like in the cage.
07:52Tito advances to the finals against Guy Mezger from Lion's Den.
07:56A training camp that is unfriendly rivals with Team Tank.
07:59They don't like us.
08:00We don't like them.
08:01Let's get it on!
08:02Guy Mezger was not at Tito's level.
08:05Ortiz is throwing heavy leather.
08:07Tito's in the fight.
08:09He's beating up Guy.
08:10Things are going just as planned.
08:12That's what we thought would happen.
08:13I remember kneeing him in his head and they stopped it.
08:16I thought it was over.
08:17It's not.
08:18Referee John McCarthy has only paused the fight because Mezger's bleeding.
08:21It's a safety precaution added to the UFC in its effort to become a more mainstream sport.
08:27I'm supposed to stop it, so I stop it.
08:30Doctor says, yeah, he's fine.
08:31Go back.
08:32Tito comes out.
08:32Goes for a takedown.
08:34Metzger's got a shot at a guillotine choke here.
08:37He guillotines him and that was the end of the fight.
08:40Guy Mezger wins and Tito is like, I got screwed.
08:45Had it not been stopped, Tito would have finished up.
08:48Talking about being pissed.
08:50Wow.
08:50No way.
08:51How did that happen?
08:53Despite the loss, Tito's early promise attracts a somewhat provocative sponsor.
08:58I like to thank Extreme Associates.
09:00Extreme Associates was a porno company.
09:02They were like, here, I'll pay you five grand.
09:03You wear this t-shirt after a fight.
09:05I was going to get paid $2,500 for the fight.
09:06I was like, 100%.
09:07After beating another Lion's Den fighter, Jerry Bolander, Tito's new sponsor's promotional t-shirt
09:13receives mixed reviews.
09:15They're like, oh my God.
09:17Dude, that's pretty disrespectful.
09:19The other people are like, I love that.
09:20That was awesome.
09:21To me, it was disgusting.
09:23You can do whatever you want prior to the fight.
09:25Say what you want to say.
09:26When it's over, it's over.
09:29I'm Ken Shamrock, formerly known as the world's most dangerous man.
09:33Tito had a reputation of disrespecting guys after he wins.
09:37That continues when Tito beats Guy Mezger in a rematch.
09:41Into the corner of the Lion's Den.
09:44He flips me off.
09:45And then I just went berserk.
09:47Ken Shamrock very upset.
09:49Lion's Den is a fighting team that I developed.
09:52I had to be able to still stand on my morals and what we believed in.
09:56I just thought, how can I dig at him even more?
09:59And I put that t-shirt on.
10:00That was iconic.
10:02Ken Shamrock lost his mind.
10:04I jumped up on the cage, just screaming and yelling.
10:07Pointed my finger in his face.
10:08I don't disrespect you.
10:09You know that's disrespectful.
10:10You fired some shots at the Lion's Den and Ken Shamrock is upset.
10:14I was a brash, cocky kid.
10:16I want people to love me or hate me.
10:18I really didn't give a shit about anything I said, anything I did.
10:21I was like a kid trying to prove myself.
10:22I just thought that was so distasteful, but the fans lucky.
10:26They started getting behind it.
10:30And that support from the UFC audience
10:37helps propel Tito into a fight against Brazilian powerhouse,
10:40Vanderlei Silva.
10:42My biggest motivation was winning the world title.
10:44I'm going to be on top and they're going to have a force to be reckoned with.
10:48But then his past as a kid from the streets resurfaces
10:51to put everything he's accomplished since leaving that world into jeopardy.
10:56One night, one of my friends got jumped by three skinheads
10:59and they beat the shit out of me.
11:02And that's why I went back. Redemption.
11:05One of the guys tried to hit me with a golf club.
11:07I saw red.
11:08I stomped the guy on the floor.
11:10Stepped on his head.
11:11And I went a little overboard.
11:12Cops came.
11:13Then I took off running.
11:15It scared the shit out of me.
11:17I was hiding in the bush.
11:18I could hear the helicopters.
11:20The cop pulls a gun.
11:21Get out of the bush!
11:22I'm afraid.
11:23I know what I did.
11:24I was defending myself.
11:25And I made a mistake.
11:28What's going to happen next?
11:31Happened.
11:32But Silva is not the only person recently beaten by Tito.
11:36The fighter wearing the belt.
11:37Tito Ortiz is the new middleweight champion.
11:41Will soon be wearing prison garb.
11:43After being convicted of battery with serious bodily injury in a street fight.
11:47It was miserable.
11:48For 59 days.
11:50I remember being on the phone crying to my girlfriend.
11:52I don't belong in here.
11:53This is not something I want to do.
11:54When I got out, I was so happy.
11:57I don't ever want to do that again.
11:59I'm going to make people understand who Tito Ortiz truly is.
12:03Tito returns to training with new determination.
12:05I would go up to Big Bear for two months.
12:08Eat, train, sleep.
12:10While training for his post-prison comeback, Tito is approached by a young manager named Dana White.
12:16That's right.
12:17The same Dana White, who will one day run the entire UFC, is then a wannabe manager, desperately seeking a
12:24fighter he can sign.
12:27Dana and his friends, casino heirs, Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, train under Tito's renowned jiu-jitsu coach, John Lewis.
12:35We became friends, and then Dana said, let me manage you.
12:38I trusted him.
12:39He was a part of Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta's business.
12:42They were billionaires.
12:43I thought that he would look out for my best interests.
12:53Dana's as quick to get into a scrap as his first client.
12:57I remember him being on the phone saying, well, Tito Ortiz deserves this.
13:00He wants pay-per-view.
13:01Expect this money and so forth.
13:03And he goes, I hope this works.
13:04I'm like, this is my career you're messing with.
13:06The next day, I go back to his office, and he goes, guess I'm on the boat with it.
13:10He got me the money that I wanted.
13:13But money is something that UFC is losing.
13:15And lots of it.
13:18When Dana White hears the company is up for sale, he convinces the Fertitta brothers to buy it in 2001.
13:24They immediately named Dana the new president of the UFC, transforming Tito Ortiz's manager into his master.
13:32If you're Dana White, what's a step up?
13:34Tito never came to grips with it.
13:37He felt betrayed by the whole thing.
13:39Dana was his manager.
13:40Now he's the boss.
13:41I'm Randy Couture, six-time MMA champ and friend of Tito.
13:47Despite dropping him as a client, Dana knows Tito is one of the UFC's most valuable assets.
13:53The guys that were willing to talk smack and generate heat, that was what he rewarded.
13:57Keep bringing those middleweights, man, and I'm gonna keep stomping them.
13:59Dana felt that put butts in seats.
14:01Don't blink. This shit's gonna be over quick.
14:03Tito keeps fans satisfied by trash-talking.
14:09And by winning.
14:11Successfully defending his title four times in a row.
14:16Champion of the world!
14:19His ongoing relationship with Dana White is defined by which one of them you ask.
14:24We were on a private plane on our way to Japan, and we were literally taking off.
14:28Tito and I were messing around.
14:29We were drinking, and he said a couple of stupid things.
14:33And we used to do jiu-jitsu all the time, so I really neck-cranked him, and I started squeezing
14:37him.
14:37I was tapping, and he didn't stop.
14:39I just started blasting him in the ribs.
14:41And when he let go, it was a full-blown fistfight in the plane.
14:44It wasn't a fight.
14:45I went too far with him. Of course, I went too far with Dana.
14:48And he got really bad.
14:50We always played like that.
14:52We were very close friends.
14:55Dana's bigger concern is turning around a promotion that barely survived the 1990s.
15:01UFC was still struggling.
15:02I just don't know what the future's gonna hold with this.
15:05It needed, like, blood.
15:08It was dying off.
15:09They were losing guys for me to fight.
15:10But the ongoing bad blood between Tito and Kent Shamrock presents an opportunity.
15:17I was like, if you give me a fight with him, I think we'd do really, really good.
15:21He was known throughout the world of being a professional wrestler and a UFC champion.
15:25I'm gonna beat you into the living death.
15:33On November 22nd, 2002, 27-year-old Tito versus 38-year-old Ken is just what the new UFC owners
15:41need.
15:42A sellout crowd watching a main event for the newly renamed Light Heavyweight Championship.
15:47And some of the biggest pay-per-view numbers the promotion has ever experienced.
15:51Are you ready?
15:52Are you ready?
15:53Are you ready?
15:54Let's get it on!
15:55After three rounds of relentless ground-and-pound, Shamrock's corner stops the fight before the
16:00fourth can begin.
16:02Look at Ken Shamrock's face.
16:04He took one of the worst ass-wimps I've ever seen.
16:06It is all over!
16:07I'm looking at the crowd, I'm like, oh my God, it's gonna make it.
16:11A legend of the octagon!
16:13UFC finally got that thing that they needed.
16:17That fight changed the UFC completely.
16:20It catapulted me to a different level.
16:22I was treated like royalty.
16:23I got presidential sweets, you got to drink whatever you want, you got to eat whatever you want.
16:27I was supposed to be a drug addict, homeless, being in prison, or dead.
16:32Having 16,000 fans screaming, screaming your name, chanting.
16:39I realized I made it.
16:41You want that guy that people believe cannot be beat, and then you got to find the guy
16:45that's gonna do it.
16:46And that guy is a fellow Californian and one-time college wrestler named Chuck Liddell.
16:52A match between Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell.
16:55I was working to get to the title.
16:57I want the title.
16:58If he's got the title, I want it.
17:00Chuck Liddell, my fight name was the Iceman.
17:02Former UFC light heavyweight champion and one of Tito Ortiz's biggest rivalries.
17:06I don't think it started as a rivalry.
17:08I respected him a lot because of my training partners.
17:11I knew them as friends.
17:12I could see that Chuck was living in Tito's shadow.
17:16I'm Amber Nicole Ortiz, and I am the loving wife of Tito Ortiz.
17:21I was the first official octagon girl.
17:23Tito was just better at branding, whereas Chuck was just there to fight.
17:27In those early days before becoming UFC president, Dana took on Chuck as a fighter while still managing Tito.
17:35Dana saw me and him spar.
17:37I beat him up every time we trained.
17:39I think the whole time we trained together, I threw him down probably 20 times.
17:42He took me down twice.
17:44Tito had a real hard time with Chuck.
17:46And now Chuck keeps winning, and his status is climbing towards you've got to put him against Tito.
17:54UFC and Dana wanted me to fight Chuck.
17:56That was their gimmick.
17:57I didn't want to fight him.
17:58Chuck Liddell is next in line.
18:01What's going to happen?
18:02I guess we've got to renegotiate things, because me and Chuck, I mean, our friendship's not worth the money we're
18:05getting paid if you ask me.
18:07Tito says it'll take a lot more money for him to fight his friend.
18:12I'm getting paid $150,000 to fight my best friend.
18:14We're going to fight each other.
18:15We're going to make millions doing it.
18:16But as Dana got in his ear and UFC backed him, all of a sudden we never knew each other.
18:21We were never friends.
18:22I knew him.
18:23We're not that close.
18:25I trained with the guy, and that's it.
18:27He really thinks he's number one in the world.
18:29He needs to fight me and prove it.
18:31The reason he wouldn't fight me is he couldn't take me down.
18:33He knew it.
18:34For Tito, I understand it.
18:36This is not going to be a good night for me.
18:37I want to get paid.
18:39People said that I was afraid to fight Chuck Liddell.
18:41I was never afraid to fight the man.
18:44But Tito won't do it.
18:46The only one that can answer why is Tito.
18:48The rest is hearsay.
18:55It didn't work out well for Tito.
19:03Choosing who gets to be a star.
19:05So he's got a lot of power.
19:08Dana's solution is to devise a way where they can both be champions.
19:12So they want to create an interim title.
19:14This is the first time I think an interim title has been formed.
19:17And now tonight, Chuck Liddell gets his chance for the light heavyweight title, but not against Tito.
19:23Tito wouldn't fight me, so they gave me a shot against Randy Couture.
19:27He's really tough.
19:28And he's got balls, unlike some people we know.
19:30That brings more eyeballs and more interest.
19:32They get a highlight that Tito won't fight Chuck.
19:35So we hope to set the fight up for tonight.
19:37And Tito's people came back and said that Tito had entertainment commitments.
19:41Which works for Dana too and poking Tito.
19:43Hopefully, the winner of tonight's fight, Tito will step up and fight.
19:48Dana gambles on Chuck winning the interim belt.
19:51Forcing a showdown with Tito for king of the division.
19:55The ball is really in Tito Ortiz's court.
19:57He needs to step up and fight the number one contender.
19:59When Chuck unexpectedly loses.
20:03It really, it killed me that I let him off the hook.
20:06Tito faces Randy Couture instead.
20:08It's all over.
20:10Unmuted.
20:11Unbelievable.
20:12Heavyweight champion of the world.
20:13Never seen Tito this angry.
20:16After three and a half years, Tito's reign as champion is over.
20:20Randy Couture.
20:23I will be back.
20:23I guarantee you, I will be back.
20:26But losing the title doesn't solve his Chuck Liddell problem.
20:30I would love to see him come after me.
20:32There was already a mental hurdle to get over with Chuck.
20:36And now I just added more to that by dominating for five rounds.
20:40All the storylines of me afraid to fight Chuck.
20:43It was always a money situation for me.
20:46I gotta defend myself now.
20:51It got too bad.
20:53I was like, you know what?
20:54The hell with this guy.
20:55I didn't care.
20:56So much so that Tito agrees to fight Chuck for a fraction of the millions he'd hoped for.
21:01I had too much influence by other people.
21:04People that told me what I deserved.
21:06Not realizing that it was a little too much at that time.
21:09On April 2nd, 2004.
21:11The showdown UFC fans have been waiting for finally arrives.
21:15My fans hate him.
21:16I was just happy to have the chance to go out there and show people what I could do to
21:21him.
21:23After months of build up.
21:27Chuck knocks out Tito in the second round.
21:33The loss is a one-two punch.
21:35First, the title.
21:36Now, a humbling defeat to the man some thought was the better fighter all along.
21:43Once you've done this and then you lose, where does that leave you?
21:47Half your fans are gonna turn.
21:52And not just as fans move away.
21:55Me and my wife split up.
21:57My son Jacob, him being away from me, broke my heart too.
22:00I just knew that I gotta make sure my son was okay.
22:03And I'm not getting any younger.
22:05Right now, this time, this window's open.
22:07I'm making as much money as I possibly can.
22:09Because I gotta provide for him.
22:14Tito starts stacking up wins.
22:16I fight Vito Belfort.
22:18I fight Forrest Griffin.
22:19Which helps rebuild his reputation and leverage.
22:22I do the ultimate fighter.
22:23Tito and I were good friends at one time.
22:26We had a falling out.
22:27Let's just say it's gonna be an interesting season.
22:29Dana knows what sells.
22:31And casts Tito opposite Ken Shamrock as rival coaches on the ultimate fighter.
22:36Reach out and touch me, Tito.
22:38Yeah, reach out.
22:38Go ahead.
22:39Turning their bad blood into must-see TV.
22:46Go ahead.
22:47Yeah, stay in the pocket.
22:48Yeah.
22:49Along with the Tito Ken chirping, the show exposes fans to another side of Tito Ortiz.
22:54We saw the real Tito Ortiz and the genuine passion and care he had for those athletes
22:59that he picked that were on his team on the ultimate fighter.
23:02One, two, three, team fighters, man.
23:04We're getting up to like four million viewers per episode.
23:07Love him or love to hate him.
23:09Now millions more people are picking a side.
23:16With it all coming together in a grudge match on the heels of the show's finale.
23:20Five homos in a row there.
23:21The Huntington Beach Bad Boy Tito!
23:30That's when I became a superstar.
23:33I had my house in Huntington Beach in the harbor.
23:36It was a four million dollar home.
23:37Rolls-Royce Phantom, Porsche Panamera, Range Rover, Hot Chicks.
23:42All the clothes I've always wanted.
23:43All the shoes I've always wanted.
23:44I had everything perfect.
23:46You gotta live a little bit when you don't have anything as a kid
23:49and all of a sudden you have everything thrown at you.
23:51Now I have the success.
23:52I was getting all the attention I've always dying for.
23:56He had a lot of hanger on buddies
23:58hanging around to get the access that he would get.
24:01He wants that feeling of that people need him.
24:04That they want to be with him.
24:05They want to be around him.
24:06He was soaking it all in.
24:09Partying and, you know, the girls and the strip clubs
24:11and all of the things.
24:12Women and alcohol were his vices.
24:15Happy birthday, Jenna.
24:18Thank you.
24:18Would you have believed back then when you were 13 or 14
24:21that one day you'd be banging Jenna Jameson,
24:23one of the hottest chicks on the planet?
24:24I don't.
24:25I see her as just another woman.
24:31When Tito started his relationship with Jenna,
24:33she seemed cool and was just like,
24:35bro, Jenna Jameson, yes.
24:38I'm Razor Rob McCullough.
24:39Tito Ortiz and I have been best friends from the beginning.
24:42Seemed like they were a good match.
24:44She was smart, articulate.
24:46It was amazing.
24:47But then we'd go places and she'd grab his phone
24:49and go through his phone.
24:50I was like, that's not a good sign.
24:53I loved her.
24:54I would do anything for her.
24:56I loved her.
25:00With Tito's comeback in full swing,
25:02the UFC sees a golden opportunity.
25:05A rematch between its biggest stars.
25:08This time, Chuck Liddell holds the belt,
25:11giving Tito a chance to reclaim the title
25:13and silence his critics.
25:15I'm not a 7-3 again.
25:16That ain't a problem at all.
25:17I'll knock you out again.
25:20And now it was Tito trying to get his revenge
25:23to show that I can beat this guy.
25:26By fight night, this isn't just a rematch.
25:30It's a cultural event.
25:33That fight did over a million pay-per-view advice
25:36and at that time, that was unheard of.
25:40Tito has a great look in his eyes.
25:42First round, we did well.
25:44Second round, he clipped me.
25:45Round three, I dropped him again
25:47and he's on the ground.
25:48Tito back down!
25:49And the referee stopped it.
25:51Chuck got the better of me at that time.
25:53That was fine.
25:54The rematch ends the same way as the first,
25:57with Chuck Liddell on top.
26:02You've always got to be a winner and a loser.
26:08In the aftermath of the loss, Tito sees a fight
26:11he can still capitalize on.
26:13In my contract, I made sure that me and Dana
26:16get a boxing match against each other with my contract.
26:20Why would you put that in your contract?
26:23Because I thought it'd be cool to punch him in the face.
26:25Dana accepts the challenge and runs with it.
26:29There's no f- way Tito's beating me.
26:31No f- way.
26:32He turns the build-up to the match
26:34into a special for Spike TV,
26:36putting himself front and center.
26:38He was trying to make an image of himself,
26:40of being the big bad guy that would take on Tito Ortiz
26:42that would knock him out.
26:43Tito's f-ing scared, too.
26:45He's calling me.
26:46He's worried. He's nervous.
26:47I'm in his head.
26:48I'm gonna f- him up.
26:49For a president of the organization like Dana
26:52to be involved and engaged in a three-round boxing match
26:55with one of the fighters, there's some crazy crap for sure.
26:58I thought, this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
27:00What if he does well against his marquee guy?
27:06Three weeks before, he goes, we can't do that.
27:08I'm not making any money off this.
27:09He completely made me look like this scumbag that was out there.
27:12Screw him over.
27:13He got me to the point where he hurt me.
27:14Hurt me bad.
27:15Throw me a pack a million.
27:16Throw me a hundred thousand.
27:17Give me something.
27:18I don't get anything.
27:19That's embarrassing.
27:20Why would I train for a fight
27:21and not get paid anything at all?
27:23And when I said I wasn't gonna fight,
27:24like I said, please do me one favor.
27:26Don't sit on a scale with your arms raised
27:27and say Tito Ortiz is a no-show.
27:29If Tito doesn't show up, then that's it.
27:31I've done everything I was supposed to do.
27:33Exactly what they did.
27:35I can honestly say I don't think I've ever hated anybody worse
27:38than I hated Tito.
27:43One year after their canceled boxing match,
27:46Tito Ortiz and Dana White are still locked
27:48in a sustained assault over money, respect,
27:51and who owes who.
27:53I don't want to be 45 years old competing in the UFC.
27:56You know, murder myself trying to make a million.
27:58And a lot of these other guys do.
27:59That's not the way they look at it.
28:01They look at it as slaves for you, man.
28:03That's what it comes down to.
28:04I'm gonna make you a superstar.
28:06No, you're the one that wants to be a superstar.
28:07These guys want to be fighters.
28:08That's the difference.
28:09Okay.
28:10I think at that time when UFC was bought,
28:12they bought it because of me.
28:13Everybody always goes,
28:14who's this guy right here?
28:15Who's this guy with the flame shorts
28:16and bleach blonde hair?
28:17Like, that's Tito Ortiz.
28:19When I was champion
28:19and I was the UFC poster child,
28:22I would do all the promotion for free.
28:24But when you start questioning things,
28:25that's when you get put down.
28:26How about this moron coming out
28:28saying he was a slave?
28:29When you understand your worth,
28:31you're gonna get belittled,
28:32you're gonna be talked down upon,
28:33you're gonna be just dismantled
28:37on mainstream media by Dana.
28:39He's one of the dumbest mother
28:40you will ever meet.
28:41Seriously.
28:42He's a slave to stupidity.
28:46Dana always says,
28:47I always hear it over and over and over,
28:49he is the stupidest man in the world, Tito is.
28:52Can you imagine trying to do
28:54f***ing business with that buffoon?
28:56I am stupid,
28:57because I let you get away with the shit
28:57you got away with.
28:58And I didn't say no.
29:00I was stupid,
29:00because I trusted you.
29:02Over five years,
29:03Tito's stock plummets.
29:05One win,
29:06one draw,
29:07and six losses.
29:08For most fighters with that record,
29:10Dana punches their ticket out of the UFC.
29:13What, born alone now?
29:15Not too many guys get to stick around
29:17after that in the UFC.
29:18For Tito,
29:19Dana seems to keep him around
29:21just to land punches.
29:22How many times Tito fought
29:24that I wanted to see him just get his ass whooped?
29:26Every time he got beat,
29:27it was absolutely fun for me.
29:28Touche.
29:29I've said things about him too.
29:30Dana said it on interviews,
29:31saying that he wishes I would lose,
29:34he hopes I lose.
29:35It really comes down to revenge.
29:37It was ego.
29:38It's both of them.
29:39Dana has a humongous ego also.
29:41He thinks he is like God's gift to UFC.
29:45Same with Tito.
29:46It's like,
29:46when are you going to grow up?
29:48You know what, Dana?
29:48Stop being a person, dude.
29:50And I know where to poke the bear.
29:51Hey, it's noble dessert.
29:52I shouldn't poke the bear
29:53as many times as I did, though.
29:55Why should I work for a business
29:56that someone completely hates me,
29:57and Dana whites that person?
29:58That's my stubbornness.
29:59I'm stubborn.
30:00I'm a stubborn man.
30:01But I'll just defeat myself.
30:02First of all,
30:03Tito is the cheapest mother on planet Earth.
30:06Try to have an educated conversation with him.
30:08It's not possible.
30:09Dana's version of Tito
30:11takes on a life of its own
30:12on the internet.
30:14Tito's one of those guys
30:15that thinks he's smart,
30:17but he's not.
30:17Old flubs are resurrected.
30:19I want to outlive my children.
30:21Again.
30:21I train six days,
30:23actually six days a week.
30:24Five days a week.
30:26I'll train three days a week.
30:27And again.
30:28One of those days,
30:28I will train two days a week.
30:30He just gets bigger and bigger
30:31the more he talked about it.
30:33Social media is what it is.
30:35Tito's an easy target.
30:37He puts things out there
30:38and says things at times
30:39and they're not smooth.
30:41At the end of the day,
30:42you've got to say it as
30:44never can never be never
30:45and I want to make sure
30:46that I don't ever say never again.
30:49The Titoism,
30:50I guess,
30:50is when I make mistakes in interviews.
30:52Boxing is chess,
30:54or excuse me,
30:54is checkers,
30:55and MMA is chess.
30:56Just like going off the cuff
30:57or just saying things.
30:58You've got some big words
30:59to fulfill those shoes.
31:00or they pick out
31:01the little small memes
31:03of something I said 15 years ago.
31:05He's reaching for,
31:06he's reaching for those graves.
31:08Get over it.
31:13Go and watch all the podcasts
31:14and see how many times
31:15I mess up during a podcast.
31:16No, I don't.
31:18He's a f***ing buffoon.
31:19Dana talking shit on me,
31:20100%, that's way worse
31:21than any social media post of anyone.
31:24Assassinate my character
31:25as much as he has.
31:26Why?
31:27Why?
31:29After years of defending
31:30his public image,
31:31Tito faces a crisis
31:33that can't be blamed on Dana.
31:35Are you getting arrested, Tito?
31:37No.
31:38Talk about the most embarrassing
31:39thing in your life.
31:40Tito's troubles at home
31:41are now becoming
31:42one more thing
31:44for people to talk about.
31:45My girlfriend Jenna,
31:46every time my fights came about,
31:48she made it about her.
31:49We always fought
31:50during those situations.
31:52I told her,
31:53this toxic stuff
31:54is killing my career.
31:55Rico Rodriguez.
31:57We had twins,
31:58and I thought we'd start a new life
31:59and everything would be great.
32:00I wanted the white picket-pits house
32:01with a beautiful wife,
32:02beautiful cars,
32:03everything I've worked so hard to have.
32:05But she didn't want that.
32:07Everything just went down the drain.
32:08She started using.
32:09It was harsh.
32:11How come I can't see right now?
32:12Not a nice breakup.
32:16It just got worse.
32:17It just got really, really bad.
32:18I couldn't realize that
32:19I had to make sure
32:21that my children
32:21didn't see what I seen as a kid
32:23because we're not going down the same road.
32:25Yeah, I would say
32:26that we've had our issues.
32:27That's for sure.
32:28I go,
32:29I'm taking full custody of the kids.
32:30I'm out.
32:31And she lost her mind.
32:33Screaming, yelling.
32:35Cops came.
32:36Tito,
32:36I'm going to place you in arrest.
32:39For what?
32:40Because you hit her.
32:42We're here
32:42because, unfortunately,
32:44Jenna Jameson
32:45has been facing
32:46and fighting a battle
32:47with Oxycodone addiction
32:49for well over a year.
32:50Talk about trying
32:51to save somebody's ass
32:53for being a white loser.
32:55Placed my bill.
32:56Went to the hotel room
32:57for a week.
32:58Cameras of paparazzi
32:59started chasing me
33:00everywhere I went.
33:00Tito,
33:01why'd you hurt Jenna?
33:03Oh, never.
33:03Jenna broke her.
33:04Oh, you didn't hurt her?
33:09I've never touched a woman in my life
33:11in a physical manner
33:12to her ever, ever.
33:13I have respect
33:14just to be accused
33:15of something I didn't do.
33:17That, that's like the regret
33:19that like, just the feeling
33:20of like, why?
33:24After reviewing the case,
33:25prosecutors declined
33:26to file criminal charges.
33:28Just the damage
33:29already done, what happened?
33:31The spotlight
33:31he spent years chasing
33:33temporarily blinds him
33:34to any kind of future.
33:36All of this emotion
33:37started getting the best of me.
33:39I remember sitting on my bed
33:41and I had a hand of Xanax.
33:43Like, I bought 10 of them,
33:4415 of them.
33:44and I popped in my mouth.
33:46I was like, I'm done.
33:47I'm over this shit.
33:50I closed my eyes.
33:52I saw Jacob's face.
33:55No dad.
34:00Started crying.
34:02I spit him out.
34:03My son saved my life.
34:05I wouldn't be here right now.
34:07You bring children
34:08into this world.
34:09You gotta be willing
34:10to sacrifice everything
34:11for them.
34:13But when I was a kid,
34:14my parents didn't care.
34:15When I was
34:1711 years old,
34:18I stayed at Newport Pier
34:19overnight,
34:20laying on a cardboard
34:21with a plastic bag over me
34:23so the water didn't hit my clothes.
34:28I remember
34:29the sun just cracking
34:30and hitting me.
34:31And I was like,
34:33oh, okay,
34:33I'm gonna be okay.
34:35These incidents happen
34:36non-stop,
34:37day after day.
34:39for years,
34:40attention was proof
34:41to Tito
34:42that he mattered
34:43even when it came
34:44at a cost.
34:45One more smile.
34:46One more smile.
34:46I come to learn that the problems
34:47that I had through life
34:48were from when I was a kid
34:50being abandoned.
34:53And why, dad?
34:53Why'd you put me through this?
34:54Why? Why? Why? Why?
34:56Why?
35:00As an adult,
35:01I can't be alone.
35:04On July 7th, 2012,
35:07he says goodbye
35:08to the promotion
35:08that delivered most of the attention
35:10when he fights his last UFC bout.
35:13You know, Forrest,
35:14I tried to pave the way
35:15for all you fighters in feature.
35:18Now, Tito turns his attention
35:20to a different battle.
35:21Took me six months,
35:23took me $500,000
35:24in legal fees,
35:26but I got full custody,
35:28became a single father,
35:29and it was the scariest
35:30and hardest thing I ever did.
35:32Then, a message arrives
35:33from an old friend.
35:35It was Amber.
35:37I wrote to Tito,
35:38and I was like, are you all right?
35:39I said, no.
35:42I'm ruined right now.
35:44I could tell that he was in a dark place.
35:46That's a lot.
35:47That's a lot to take on.
35:48We hung out,
35:49and I was just like,
35:51you're so nice.
35:52And I said, is there anything
35:53I can do to help you?
35:55She went out of her way
35:56to come to Huntington Beach
35:57because I had to get knee surgery.
35:58I said, I'll take care of you.
35:59Take care of the boys.
36:00For once, I have someone
36:01to watch over me,
36:04and I fell in love.
36:05I dreamt of having twins
36:07my whole life.
36:07I've just not been able
36:08to have my own kids.
36:10I just knew that
36:11I needed to put them first.
36:13But as Tito tries
36:14to build a new life,
36:16an old rival
36:16is still looming
36:18in the background.
36:18Dana literally called me
36:20and was like,
36:20don't you dare date him.
36:21He'll treat you like shit.
36:22He's bad news.
36:23I was like,
36:24I like him.
36:26It was hard, though.
36:27It was very tumultuous.
36:28I'm like,
36:29these people are not really
36:29your friends.
36:30They don't, like,
36:31actually care about you.
36:32He's drunk,
36:33or he's in party mode.
36:35He's not looking
36:36for real connection.
36:37You grow up a certain way,
36:39and you feel like
36:40you weren't loved.
36:41It's not something
36:41you just get rid of.
36:42Perhaps looking
36:43to fill the void
36:44opened by ending
36:45his MMA career,
36:47Tito jumps into a new ring.
36:49Politics.
36:50I'm not a politician at all.
36:52I'm an American
36:52that was born and raised
36:53here in Huntington Beach.
36:54I'm gonna fight for my community.
36:57In the final chapter
36:58of Tito Ortiz's career,
37:00he fights his way
37:01through lower promotions,
37:03culminating in his last MMA bout
37:05on December 7th, 2019.
37:09Then, just months
37:10after leaving MMA,
37:12the Huntington Beach bad boy
37:13finds a way
37:14back to the limelight.
37:16Somebody mentioned
37:17that he was going to politics,
37:18and I said,
37:19shut the front door.
37:20Like, I'm like, shut up.
37:22Come on, really?
37:22And then, he did.
37:24Now, he's trying to knock them out
37:26in a different arena,
37:27local politics.
37:28We knew he would win
37:29just because he has
37:30such a huge following
37:31in Huntington Beach.
37:33That's their boy.
37:34I work in Huntington Beach,
37:36and I'm seeing
37:36he's got an opportunity,
37:38and he's gonna run with it
37:39without thinking.
37:41Just think about
37:42what they could dig up.
37:45He won by a landslide
37:46with the highest number of votes
37:48in Huntington Beach
37:48City Council history.
37:50I was Mayor Pro Tem
37:51and council member
37:52of Huntington Beach, California.
37:53Mayor Pro Tem means
37:54the next year,
37:55I would become mayor
37:56of Huntington Beach.
37:57Mr. Ortiz.
37:58What could go wrong?
37:59I'm laughing because
38:00there's so much
38:02that could go wrong.
38:03I, Tito Ortiz.
38:04The worst decision
38:05that I ever did.
38:06I mean, literally,
38:06the worst decision I ever did
38:07running for city council.
38:09Before he can start
38:10his new job,
38:11the internet goes to work.
38:13I just saw it was...
38:15Do I saw it?
38:16Do I saw it?
38:17Do I saw it?
38:18Do you saw it?
38:18I do saw it for him.
38:24Tito had a very tough time
38:26taking his oath of office,
38:28so that became kind of
38:28a joke for a while,
38:29and we kind of knew
38:30we were off to the races
38:31at that point.
38:32Tito Ortiz is under fire
38:33for refusing to wear
38:34a mask in public.
38:35We're still in COVID.
38:36and at city council meetings.
38:38Every day was a new circus
38:39with Tito.
38:40He means well,
38:42but he's not saying
38:43the right things.
38:44Anytime you possibly can,
38:46take that mask up
38:47during class.
38:47He was not meant
38:48or built
38:49to be good
38:50in that position.
38:51He seems to be caring
38:52about him more so
38:53than everybody else
38:54that lives here.
38:55Tito had definitely
38:56an impulse control issue
38:57with regard to his mouth.
38:59Middle of his term,
39:00Tito goes down
39:01to TK Burger,
39:02which is a local
39:03burger stand.
39:04They ask him to put a mask
39:05on to go in.
39:06and he refuses.
39:07Gets on Instagram live.
39:08I'm not wearing a mask.
39:09TK Burger.
39:10You lose my business.
39:11You lose HB's business.
39:12He went after
39:13a local business.
39:14The issue
39:15has touched a nerve
39:16in Huntington Beach.
39:17He got a lot
39:18of heat for that.
39:21Then I got notified
39:22that Tito had filed
39:24some unemployment claim.
39:25Ortiz claims,
39:26even though the city
39:27was paying him
39:27through the pandemic,
39:28it wasn't enough.
39:29What I can tell you
39:30is that Tito Ortiz
39:31owns a home in the harbor
39:33worth an estimated
39:34$4 million.
39:39I didn't have a job.
39:41Besides being a politician
39:42making $600 a month,
39:43how am I going
39:44to pay my bills?
39:44The council was considering
39:46stripping his title
39:47after some members
39:48claimed Ortiz
39:49was not doing his job.
39:50They were looking for anything
39:52and everything
39:52that could be dirt
39:53to make him look like
39:55he didn't belong.
39:57Our media has fueled
39:58the confusion of celebrity
39:59and leadership.
40:00The only time I've seen him
40:01in recent years
40:02is on TMZ.
40:03It got so bad.
40:04They would paint the picture
40:05of me that it wasn't
40:06close to who I was.
40:09Now all of a sudden,
40:10we had a bigger spotlight on us
40:11and they were doing
40:12more stories about us.
40:13It was very heavy.
40:14Breaking news in
40:15Huntington Beach,
40:16former MMA star Tito Ortiz
40:18has resigned.
40:19Less than six months
40:20into his term,
40:21Tito steps down.
40:23It just wasn't worth it.
40:26Then the Huntington Beach
40:27bad boy says farewell
40:29to the town that inspired
40:30his nickname.
40:32He and Amber moved the family
40:33to Cape Coral, Florida.
40:35My whole life,
40:37I really just wanted
40:38to be accepted.
40:40I have to understand
40:41what it's like
40:43to be someone
40:43who grew up without that,
40:45without having people
40:46tell you that you're wonderful
40:48and tell you that you're good
40:49and you're smart
40:49and you're, you know,
40:50you're amazing.
40:51Do I believe that you can
40:52learn how to control it
40:53and understand it
40:54and not let it affect you?
40:55I think you can.
40:57He likes that validation
40:59and, you know,
41:00I feel like he might need that.
41:01forever, but I don't,
41:02I don't mind
41:03as long as it's done
41:04in a healthy way.
41:07In Florida,
41:08Tito embraces
41:09a quieter venture
41:10far from the spotlight.
41:12It just felt like
41:14this heaviness went away.
41:16I wanted Mexican food
41:17when I came here
41:18and there was no Mexican food
41:19in this area.
41:19It's kind of more of a Tex-Mex.
41:21I call it a Florida Mex,
41:22but in Southern California
41:23they're everywhere.
41:23It was kind of an experiment,
41:24kind of something to try
41:25and see if it would work.
41:26We had a two hour wait
41:27around the building
41:29for probably the first
41:30six months.
41:32I'm learning something new.
41:33People can think
41:34whatever they want
41:34of Tito.
41:35He had big wins.
41:37Is he gonna make mistakes?
41:38Yes.
41:39We all do.
41:40He's gonna be fine.
41:41As Tito looks ahead,
41:43not everyone
41:44is ready to move on.
41:45I don't have any beef
41:46with Tito anymore.
41:47Tito, you know you're
41:48stupid, Tito.
41:49You know you are.
41:49It's heartbreaking that I've
41:50gave 16 years of my life
41:51to them and I get zero respect.
41:54Tito's just a really dumb human being.
41:58Are you gonna poke the bear?
42:00No.
42:00I'm good.
42:01I'm done.
42:01Me and Dana.
42:02My piece, I just...
42:04Leave me alone, please.
42:05That's behind us now.
42:07No time for hatred in our lives.
42:09Life's too short.
42:09My fans still know who I am.
42:11They come and see me
42:12in my restaurant.
42:14My wife is an amazing support.
42:16The love of my life.
42:18Amber showed me what being there
42:20for me as a partner,
42:22as a friend,
42:23is about.
42:23We're like a team.
42:25My kids are healthy,
42:28smart.
42:30I coach high school wrestling.
42:31I love it.
42:32And life is great now.
42:34Life is amazing.
42:36I'm actually able to enjoy life right now.
42:38I don't have to worry about anything else.
42:47I love you.
42:48I love you.
42:49I love you.
42:50Thank you.
42:52Bye.