Tito Ortiz Wants To Fight Fedor Emelianenko At 205

In an interview with FightHub TV (via MMA Fighting), Tito Ortiz spoke about the possibility of a fight with Fedor Emelianenko. He said that while he would like to fight Fedor, he would want to do it at 205 pounds. Here are highlights:

On possible opponents when he returns to fighting: “I respect Royce so much, that’s the only reason I would want to compete against him. It’s nothing bad against him. I really, really like the guy but I just think his name is such a huge name, it’d make sense for my last fight but he don’t want to do it. I guess I don’t want to do it either, so let’s make an interesting fight. Let’s see if Fedor can get down to 205. Rampage. Rampage kind of talked smack his last fight saying that he’ll fight me no matter what. Okay, let it be. Let’s see him get down to 205.”

On wanting to fight at 205: “I’m a 205 lb. fighter, been my whole career, 19 years and I’m not going anywhere. No reason to give anybody a little extra. I understand my levels of how I like to compete and at 205 that’s where I’m super fast. I’m a workhorse and that’s my weight. So Rampage or Fedor or whoever they have else to fight me at 205, I don’t care.”

On when he’ll be back: “Before the year is over. Maybe next couple of months. I’m just waiting on Scott Coker and making the right decision. I’m a business guy and I’m part of the business. Whenever they want me to fight, I’m getting ready now so I’ll be in shape to fight… The business side is already etched out to everything I want to do in my contract. Right now it’s just what the fans want, what they want to see.”