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“Hopefully by October I’ll be competing. We’re finishing the contract I’d say with CBS, Showtime, and Strikeforce and making a deal that UFC can’t match. I feel sorry for the person they have me fight, but I do need one warm-up fight. I managed to come off a huge back surgery. It’s been a year since I’ve competed. I think one warm-up fight to get things going. After that, I don’t want no more warm-up fights. I’m hoping by my fourth fight, possibly fight Fedor Emelianenko at a catchweight. That’d be something that I’m looking forward to possibly by the middle of next year.”
– Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz is ready to make one last run at greatness after spending more than a year on the sidelines to repair a bum spine. “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” is 2-2-1 in his last five fights — with both wins coming against the world’s most dangerous can Frank Shamrock — and dropped a unanimous decision to current UFC 205-pound champ Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida at UFC 84: “Ill Will” in May 2008 before going under the knife. So what say you … is Tito Ortiz still a major player in mixed martial arts? Or is he biting off more than he can chew by calling out the world’s most decorated heavyweight?
