Winner: Neither fighter won, it was ruled a draw.
Ortiz opens the round with a head kick then takes Rashad down easily. Rashad is trying to climb the fence but Ortiz sucks him in. Evans continues to try and get up. Rashad walks up the fence and they clinch on the fence. They separate and Rashad starts throwing wildly at the air hoping that Tito walks into his punches. Rashad looks jumpy and Ortiz pursues. They both move to the center of the octagon and Tito lands two good leg kicks in a row. Tito goes for a take down and follow with a knee, possibly to the groin. They clinch and they both show off their wrestling and Rashad gets behind Ortiz and pushes him to the fence and has under hooks. Tito manages to reverse and they finish the round in the clinch.
Rashad comes out light on his feet moving his hands around. Tito throws a high kick. They exchange and Ortiz lands a good jab. Rashad attempts a take down but Ortiz defends easily. They circle a bit and exchange. Rashad tries to pin Ortiz against the fence. Tito gets a thai clinch but doesn’t utilize it. Rashad separates and almost lands an elbow. Rashad tries to clinch against the fence again but couldn’t capitalize. They come back to the center of the ocatagon and Rashad tries to shoot and Tito defends. They come apart and Tito goes for the take down and gets it. Rashad Evans tries to climb the fence again and does. Rashad tries to counter and take Ortiz to the mat. He does manage to get Ortiz down and Tito Ortiz looses a point in the process for holding the fence. Once on the ground Tito gets Rashad in a guillotine but the round ends before Tito Ortiz can finish.
They start the round slow. After a minute Ortiz lands a glancing head kick. Ortiz takes him down and is trying to suck Rashad back in so he can posture and begin the ground and pound. Ortiz mounts for a moment and then Rashad Evans gets up and Ortiz throws some knees. Ortiz goes for the take down again and they end up in the clinch against the cage. Rashad Evans defends well. The ref pulls them apart and Tito immediately goes for a head kick. Neither fighter throws many punches. Tito looks tired but Rashad Evans doesn’t pursue. Tito throws a body kick and then tries to shoot. Rashad Evans sprawls and reverses and takes Tito Ortiz down with ten seconds left in the fight.
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looks like the dude who wrote this really favors tito. He keeps saying rashad “tries” this and that but never says it about tito. He makes it seem like tito excecuted everything he went for when he didnt. The fight was a draw so they both “tried”
That’s how we saw the fight, sorry if you don’t agree.
No he’s right, you make it sound like ortiz just dominated and evans really didn’t do much of anything, ORTIZ SUCKS
Ortiz rules. Dont hate on him because the two of you are rascist.
I say the fight and evans won. thats it!
One thing I definately notice alot is Rashad Evans is really not a aggressive fighter dont get me wrong he is pretty good but I really think he goes for the points and sits back and waits for the opponnet to do something so he can defend. It is easier that way, but you dont go the distance like that. You have to be aggressive. As far as Tito goes hes too damn cocky. Thats why he got humiliated in a fight and got spanked on his behind.lol!
Ortiz won this fight, no doubt about it, Rashad was saved by the bell, and he was afraid the whole time.
Ozzy obviously didn’t see the end of the fight… it was Ortiz who was saved by the bell.
RASHAD EVANS IS A VERY GREAT AND EDUCATED FIGHTER. SOMETIMES HE DOESNT SEEM AGRESSIVE BUT THATS HIS GAME PLAN, THOES WHO GO RIGHT IN FOR THE KILL OFTEN DONT WIN. EVANS IS A CHAMP PERIOD. I LOOK FORWARD TO MORE AMAZING FIGHTS AND ONE DAY MAYBE YOU HATERS WILL GIVE IN AND GIVE HIM HIS CREDIT WHICH HE RIGHTFULLY WON. I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE RASHAD EVANS KEEP UP THE GOOD ASS KICKING WORK!!!
The first one to get saved by the bell was Rashad in round 2 with Tito having a choke hold applied. There would be no round 3 if round 2 lasted for another 20-30 seconds. End of round 3 found Rashad on top, no submission hold applied. Before the fight Rashad (27 yo) acted far more arrogant and took the fight far more lightly than Tito. When you step in the octagon you don’t ever, under any circumstances underestimate your opponent. Rashad did underestimate Tito and his performance didn’t live up to his words. Most of the fight found Tito as the aggressor rather than the young, strong, fast… Rashad. For a role model look to Royce Gracie, Rickson Gracie and similar, they give their opponents respect before and after the fight.
Rashad dominated.Ortiz is a pussy ass grappling fondleing faggot.Bitches.
and he will beat griffin like nothing
Evans will beat Griffin in Rnd 2……….Quinton will finally get his win though he has lost twice to silva and Frank Mir will win by submission on Nogueirra. Mark my words and if Mir doesnt win by submission he will win in a split decision and thats what WILL happen
to the person who wrote this article………..Tito sucks for real. He might as well hang his gloves up cause Evans has so much more to offer the fighting world
This article was written many moons ago. and Tito does suck badly, his style is so outdated I am not sure he can even offer other fighters training worth while like other old fighters such as Randy Couture can
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