Tito Ortiz Suffers Fractured Neck

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10-25-2013, 03:01 PM
Jack LaBarge

Tito Ortiz Suffers Fractured Neck

Bellator Moves Entire Show to Live & Free on Spike TV

Bellator just wrapped up an emergency phone press-conference and Bjorn Rebney just announced that the Bellator PPV will be offered for free on Spike TV on November 2nd.

Apparently Tito Ortiz still wanted to go on with the fight but his doctor advised that it could lead to paralysis if his injury wasn't fixed. Bellator still has plans for a PPV, but they will postpone it probably until 2014. The promotion was thinking about putting in Atilla Veigh to face Rampage Jackson, but those ideas were scrapped and Rampage will not face a replacement. Also Eddie Alvarez doesn't lose out on his PPV bonus, which I still don't see how that doesn't happen. If you purchased the PPV you will get a full refund.

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10-25-2013, 05:38 PM
Tom Carbone

Bellator had no business putting that on PPV in the first place. Glad it worked out for us.
10-25-2013, 09:04 PM
Kyle Spalla

What if this was all an elaborate scheme from the UFC to bury Bellator's hope of starting pay-per-view. Tito was in on it the whole time to unravel them from the inside and all his beef with Dana was secretly a ruse? That would be some mastermind shit.
10-25-2013, 09:12 PM
Josh Passini

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kyle Spalla

What if this was all an elaborate scheme from the UFC to bury Bellator's hope of starting pay-per-view. Tito was in on it the whole time to unravel them from the inside and all his beef with Dana was secretly a ruse? That would be some mastermind shit.

Good Stuff
10-26-2013, 12:48 AM
Andrew Alexander

Scenario 1- Tito broke his neck from doing crossfit.... ;)
Scenario 2- Kyle was right, except that it was not Dana who did it it was Vince McMahon and Tito did it to destroy both bellator and UFC,
10-26-2013, 01:14 AM
Kyle Spalla

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew Alexander

Scenario 1- Tito broke his neck from doing crossfit.... ;)
Scenario 2- Kyle was right, except that it was not Dana who did it it was Vince McMahon and Tito did it to destroy both bellator and UFC,

Eddie would be all over this conspiracy theory. :)
10-26-2013, 09:17 PM
Brent Smith

Thank Jeebus
10-27-2013, 07:07 AM
David Rosado

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kyle Spalla

What if this was all an elaborate scheme from the UFC to bury Bellator's hope of starting pay-per-view. Tito was in on it the whole time to unravel them from the inside and all his beef with Dana was secretly a ruse? That would be some mastermind shit.

Lmao.

But dude, how does he get injured so often? Smh.
10-27-2013, 07:52 AM
Conner MACHINE Gibbons

More likely the projected Pay Per Views amount was nowhere close to what Bellator expected. I didn't see a huge interest from guys I train with to spend money on seeing that card. I bet they realized they were going to lose their ass and came up with the plan to pull the plug. Throw Tito some money for saying he's injured. He gets tons of press because he can jump up and down saying he's a warrior and he will fight, so he doesn't lose face, but Bellator and the doctors wont allow it. Tell Tito they will make it up to him down the road ( Maybe in the near future we see Tito become the new cage side commentator ) Than move the card to Spike for whatever they can sell it for. In the end I would guess it's all about the money.
10-27-2013, 12:34 PM
Marco Navarro

Didn't he have a similar excuse on TUF? Neck injury. Doctor not advising. Not willing to risk it...I'm just saying.
10-27-2013, 04:50 PM
rickdawson

Tito Ortiz was the fighter responsible for getting me into grappling... I started Wrestling after I saw him SMASH Evan Tanner. It sucks seeing him go out there and get destroyed time and time again. I hope he takes this as a sign from the universe and retires.