Tito Ortiz stepped into the cage for the last time at “Bellator 170” earlier this year and walked out with a win after submitting Chael Sonnen in just the opening round.
Controversy clouded the excitement of Ortiz’s victory, however, as the “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” held on to the choke for too long after Sonnen tapped out. Now, Sonnen has chosen to open up about the fight claiming that Ortiz verbally submitted. Check out what Sonnen had to say on his most recent podcast “Your’e Welcome“:
“Look, Tito [Ortiz] tapped in that fight. I knew Tito tapped when he tapped. I heard Tito verbally tap and I’ve never said a word about it. Privately to Tito at the press conference, I never said anything and the reason is first off when you lose, you just take your loss. It’s not a tap if the referee doesn’t call it a tap. So therefore, Tito didn’t tap. I thought he tapped and I let a move go. He verbally tapped and I never said anything about it and the reason was he quit the sport five seconds later. He quit the sport five seconds after I tapped, and he quit the sport a minute and five seconds after he tapped. There was no rematch. There was nothing to build and there was no reason to tell the real story.”
