UFC.com half year awards: Biggest Upsets
The Highly Unofficial Half-Year awards continue with the biggest upsets of 2011 thus far… 5 – Mighty Mouse outlasts former…
The Highly Unofficial Half-Year awards continue with the biggest upsets of 2011 thus far…
5 – Mighty Mouse outlasts former champ Torres WATCH FIGHT REPLAY
4 – Siver puts an end to Sotiropoulos’ immediate title plansWATCH UFC 127 REPLAY
3 – Poirier is no stepping stone for GrispiWATCH FIGHT REPLAY
2 – Late notice no problem for BrennemanWATCH UFC LIVE REPLAY.
1 – Ortiz proves that there’s still life in the Huntington Beach Bad BoyWATCH UFC 132 REPLAY
If you picked 36-year old Tito Ortiz to defeat Ryan Bader last Saturday night at UFC 132, you probably did so just for sentimental reasons. Why? Because the former light heavyweight champion had shown nothing in his previous five fights (a 0-4-1 stretch) that would make you think he could turn the tide against young powerhouse Bader.
But in a 15 minute scrap with an opponent who could very well send him to join Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture in retirement, what would he do to win. Well, he did it by shocking Bader with a flush punch to the jaw and then finishing matters with a guillotine choke that ignited the MGM Grand Garden Arena crowd and resurrected Ortiz’ career.
At a time when you usually bow your head and dread the day that an aging superstar steps into the Octagon and doesn’t have it anymore, Ortiz came alive and proved that the great ones always have a great fight left in them. Now we’ll see if there’s more to come.
