Filming of The Ultimate Fighter season 11 has only just finished and rival coaches Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz are not due to fight until UFC 114, but the two are already getting into it via their Twitter accounts. UFC president Dana White posted a message castigating certain MMA sites for claiming that Liddell had “his belly back” and was looking out of shape. He posted a picture alongside the tweet showing Liddell in good shape.
Shortly afterwards, Ortiz’s partner Jenna Jameson posted a message saying “I think its funny that defends Chuck Liddell like he’s his boyfriend… It’s kinda embarrassing.”
The tweet was duly forwarded to Liddell by a fan and the former light-heavyweight champion responded by saying that Jameson “can talk all the shit she wants, Tito is still a pussy and I ko’d him twice”.
Jameson’s response was to claim she had “never seen Tito Ortiz get knock the fuck out… Chuck has twice in the past year” while she also directly messaged Liddell and said he “never knocked Tito out! He kept coming.”
Liddell duly clarified and said that actually it was a TKO the second time he beat him (the first was a KO). Jameson’s final rejoinder was to observe that “Dana favors Chuck, always has… maybe he has a weiner to match his belly, and Dana may like it. Hehehe.”
Ortiz himself had not weighed in at time of writing but has been leaving odd Twitter messages over the last few days. The messages are of a somewhat cryptic nature, one observing that “business is business” and another mentioning “challenges” being placed in his path by “God”.
Speculation has been rife about the meaning of the messages and there are strong rumours of a backstage bust-up between Ortiz and the UFC, specifically company president Dana White. One version of the rumour has it that the bust-up was sparked by Ortiz ‘going off’ on someone, forcing White to intervene.
But there has been no official comment from any quarter and as yet rumours are just that. TUF 11 begins airing on March 31st and if the source of Ortiz’s cryptic messages has not been revealed by then, it certainly will be by the time the show has finished broadcasting.
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