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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"I thought I won the fight, when you drop a guy twice, you take him down four times and you dominate by doing it. He never took me down. He never hurt me. For the first time ever in UFC history, they showed strikes attempted; not strikes landed, strikes attempted. When do you ever show somebody with strikes attempted? He never hit me, I blocked all of them.
After him [Griffin] running out of the fight, that shows that he lost and for Dana [White] to go back and run and get him to come back, there's something fishy going on here. How does Dana know how things are going to turn out? I thought something was fishy about that. Was it premeditated? Was it pre-planned out what the answer was going to be? If I didn't knock him it, if I didn't submit him, they already knew who was going to win."
-Conspiracy theorist Tito Ortiz talks to Ground and Pound TV about his feeling that something wasn't right with his UFC 148 bout against Forrest Griffin (transcribed by BleacherReport.com).
Penick's Analysis: Is anyone surprised by this type of thinking from Ortiz? After all, nothing's ever been on him. He didn't lose, the fight was predetermined, it was taken from him. He didn't get out-struck, no, that couldn't possibly have happened. Except it did. The FightMetric report for the fight showed that he was both out-attempted and out-landed in the striking department, and through much of the fight he just didn't perform as well. As far as Griffin walking out and White going back to get him, how is that a fishy situation? White wanted Griffin in the cage whether he won or not, because that's what's supposed to happen at the end of the fight, not the mental lapse that Griffin had. Ortiz likes to see things moving in the dark that aren't there, and this is another example of that.
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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