Tito Ortiz: “You’ve got to stand for the things you believe in.”
by Steven Marrocco | source: mmajunkie.com
Jones told MMAFighting.com that he was hurt when UFC President Dana White compared him to Ortiz when discussing the circumstances surrounding the cancellation of UFC 151, which came after he turned down a short-notice fight with Chael Sonnen and the promotion elected to scrap the entire card.
Here’s some of what tito had to say.
“I looked at it as he’s just a weak guy,” Ortiz told MMAjunkie.com(www.mmajunkie.com). “There’s a lot of minds stronger than that. It shows how he can just fold.
“Mentally, if he gets pressed and pressed during interviews, and all of a sudden he just totally turns himself around, you can’t be like that, man.”
“You can’t be like that,” he said. “You’ve got to stand for the things you believe in.”
“For him to say the things he said about me, I’m just like, ‘Dude, I had your back.’ I was just really disappointed.”
“Maybe that was the right decision for Jon Jones’ career. Would I have done the same? No.”