CZĘŚĆ 1 . Wywiad pochodzi z Boxinginsider.com.Przetłumaczę trochę pózniej.Na końcu jest " Tito's version" incydentu z Lee Murrayem.
Boxinginsider.com: Tito, thanks a lot for doing this interview with us. It's always a pleasure. How are you feeling?
Tito Ortiz: Really good. I'm really, really healthy. I appreciate it. I'm just going on training. I'm doing really, really well, actually. I'm getting a lot of progress. I'm actually starting to have fun again.
Boxinginsider.com: What have you been working on since we talked to you last? Are you still working out eight hours a day, or have you made any changes to your training regimen since the Randy Couture fight? What are you doing now?
Tito Ortiz: I am pretty much doing more quality training than quantity. I'm not doing as much as usual. I'm not trying to do the eight-hour days, seven days a week any more. I've dropped down to about four to five hours a day, six days a week now. I'm just trying to get more quality training in now. I'm not doing the really "trying to kill myself" training any more because I'm not getting any younger.
Boxinginsider.com: Tito, I read on the Underground that you were using a gravity machine, or something?
Tito Ortiz: That's the altitude pursuit called CVAC systems. It changes the altitude inside the chamber that you're in and it makes more red blood cells so it changes the ITOs in your blood and make more red blood cells -- so you can recover a lot quicker. It's not going to make me fight any better, but it will make my recovery time a lot better.
Boxinginsider.com: Do you take any supplements or can you tell us your nutrition routine, maybe even give us an insight into what you're working on as far as the training?
Tito Ortiz: Nutrition-wise - of course I still have to stay away from fast food. I stay away from greasy foods. I will eat a chicken sandwich with no sauce, no cheese, or anything on it. But, more than anything, I just try to stay away from fried foods, sodas, candy, ice-cream -- anything like that. I really try to just feed my body with all the natural food - a lot of green vegetables, chicken, a lot of steaks, a lot of pasta and rice.
Boxinginsider.com: Can we talk about your training regimen? Specifically -- what are you training and how often?
Tito Ortiz: I'm training six days a week. In the morning I do my boxing -- my kick-boxing. At night I do my wrestling. Then late night will be my cardio and weightlifting -- six days a week, so it's anywhere from four to six hours per day.
Boxinginsider.com: So when you're boxing you're spending two to three hours boxing, then two to three hours more. How long would you spend at a time?
Tito Ortiz: About an hour and a half each of weightlifting, running, boxing and wrestling.
Boxinginsider.com: Has Fernando Vargas been an influence in your boxing?
Tito Ortiz: I've watched him in a lot of his training regimens and what he does, and I can't say it helped me a lot, but just a little bit. It helped me a little bit to turn my punches over, for example. But more than anything, I'm a huge fan if his and he's a really good friend of mine.
Boxinginsider.com: Can you tell us about the media tour that you've been doing to promote your upcoming fight with Chuck Liddell?
Tito Ortiz: Actually, I haven't done any P.R. at all for the fight with Chuck Liddell. The only thing I've been doing is just radio. I've been trying to just get my training in because the last time I was concentrating too much on the fight without concentrating on myself. I think this time I will concentrate on myself.
Boxinginsider.com: So how do you retool and refocus for your fight with Chuck Liddell? What are you doing now differently than you did before the fight with Randy Couture?
Tito Ortiz: I'm getting back to my strength. I'm getting back to when I was really mean and nasty. There were my takedowns of course and my clinch. I've actually been picking up some new things with my boxing. I've got some very good sparring partners: John Davis Jackson, a former welterweight two-time world champion I've been sparring with. I've just been trying to get my boxing in tone, so with Chuck Liddell I stand up. I'm going to get the better of him.
Boxinginsider.com: Before you called I was watching the tape of the last UFC where you had the in-ring altercation (or whatever you want to call it). It seems in that incident you assume the "heel" role -- to use a wrestling term. Could you give us your description of Tito Ortiz's persona that you like to project?
Tito Ortiz: I just think I'm really brash, you know, I don't care about a lot of things any more. I'm a very dangerous fighter and I come out with ferocity. I come out with a good attitude of knowing that I'm going to beat my opponent. And I try to make sure that my fists do the talking, but I like to do a little bit of talking up the fight before. If that's what makes Tito Ortiz, I'm not going to be a guy who just lets my fight do the talking. I'll do a little smack-talking before. I'm just going to rule the Octagon. In my mind, there's no one better than me. I've just got to make sure I work harder and harder each time I train. But when the Tito Ortiz who [fights back] in the Octagon, people will know that's me, because there's no one in the world like me and there never will be anybody in the world like me. I just try to keep that persona in and out of the Octagon, no matter what.
Boxinginsider.com: As a personality, what do you hope to accomplish now in your career in addition to the UFC? Are there more Hollywood movies, or is there any TV or anything like that that you are looking at?
Tito Ortiz: Actually I'm trying to get more and more movies, if it's possible. In May I'll be shooting a couple of movies. I believe there'll be about a three-week session where I'll be working with a movie called Newport Heights playing a guy -- Vinnie Caputo, who's a ghetto kid from New York who's going to be a club owner. I'm possibly going to work on a new movie called That's Life. It's pretty much a main role. We're just looking for the right producers to make it happen. So they've got the writers and everything else and it's in the works. I'm just trying to pick up more and more things, so I have some more steps to my repertoire. I'm not just going to be a fighter for the rest of my life. I'm trying to get something out so I'm not fighting until I'm 40 years old. So I'm doing other things like getting into movies. That's something I really think I can accomplish in my life.
Boxinginsider.com: Having trained and sparred with Chuck Liddell -- even sporadically -- how does this affect your preparation and approach for this fight?
Tito Ortiz: I don't think it affects me at all, actually, because when I used to spar with Chuck Liddell, I didn't even know half of what I know now. I'm a totally different boxer from back then. I didn't even know what boxing was about. It's been in the last three years that I have put in all my work. It seems like I've learned a lot more and, if Chuck Liddell thinks I'm the same as I was three years ago, he's in for a world of hurting. I've got a lot better myself. I've done a lot more things with sparring partners, with training coaches. I've gone out and found the best I can possibly get, and I think what's going to help me a lot in this fight is my boxing ability because I've been doing so much for so long now, I've actually got better as the years have gone by.
Boxinginsider.com: How much bad blood is there between you and Chuck Liddell and how much of it is UFC marketing hype?
Tito Ortiz: In the beginning it was all UFC marketing hype, but over the last four or five months it's real, real anger. It's hatred between each other. I don't like that guy, and I don't think he likes me. I don't like him because he tried to hinder my image by saying I'm afraid of that man. I'm afraid of no man at 205 lbs -- or no man in the world. I just think that if he thinks I'm afraid of him he's in for a world of hurt, because I'm going to try to walk through Chuck Liddell. That's something people have never done before, and I stop Chuck Liddell? In my mind, I want to go in and I want to go in with a good game plan -- and knowing that I'm going to win at the end of the match is what really matters. So this fight is everything to me. It's personal, and it really means the world to me right now, so we are going to see what happens on April 2nd.
Boxinginsider.com: You brought up an interesting point when you said that some of it was marketing hype because you're a character who professionally has been attacked leading up to this fight, and I'm just wondering how you plan to shut up your critics because personally I think you got the raw end of some of that -- and you're renegotiating a contract. How does that have to do with the bad blood that's there today?
Tito Ortiz: The reason I never fought Chuck Liddell before was because I thought he was a friend of mine. But I guess, when money comes down to it, he doesn't care about friendship. He says that we never were good friends. So, that's even better. When I beat him down worse I don't have to think I beat down a good friend. So more than anything I think that this fight, it's something that he wanted. I never want to hurt a friend, but now I'm going to have to, so on April 2nd. he's going to see the ferocity of Tito Ortiz.
Boxinginsider.com: Some people have said that this fight has lost its luster because it didn't happen sooner. What do you say to the critics?
Tito Ortiz: I guess those people aren't going to be the ones watching the fight. But the other 200,000 people will be watching it. And this will be one of the biggest fights since the Ken Shamrock fight. And this fight has been waiting to happen for almost three years now, so those guys who say it's not going to be as exciting as it would have been, they'll either be buying front-row tickets or they'll be sitting at home watching something else.
Boxinginsider.com: Can you tell us what happened between you and Lee Murray in London? Did you fight, and did he knock you out, as many people have claimed? What's the real story?
Tito Ortiz: The true story - he never knocked me out. He hit me with a good shot, but he never knocked me out. He even kicked me in the head, but still wouldn't knock me out. It was just a really bad incident where one of my buddies got knocked out and I was trying to protect him and Lee Murray was stomping one of my friends with the rest of his little clan and Lee Murray was the closest one to me -- so I went to grab him and of course we were really intoxicated. I had dress shoes on, and a suit. It was a night I didn't think I would be fighting, and I ended up clinching him, and he hooked me a couple of times, then he tried to run away. I went to chase him, he turned around and he missed a couple of shots and kicked me in the head, and people separated us. And that was pretty much it. He got the better of me, but if he is the man that he says he is, let's meet in the Octagon. He said, "If Tito Ortiz makes 200 lbs the day of the event" -- I have no problem doing that. I'll make 200 lbs the day of the event.
If he wants me to fight, let's fight. This guy has been around on my coattails for so long now. He's never even had a name until he says he supposedly knocked me out. If he says he knocked me out, I want to see him try it again. In my mind it never happened. I never saw it happen. I never felt it happen. I was aware the whole time after the punches hit me. I remember the head kick that he hit me with. It was not a problem at all, just something I shook off. He cut my lip, but in every fight you get a little lip cut. I mean, I want to gash his face in when I fight him -- so hopefully after this fight with Chuck Liddell, Lee Murray will be next.
Boxinginsider.com: Is there a videotape of this incident somewhere as some people claim?
Tito Ortiz: I haven't seen it. If there is, I'd love to see it.
"Don't think; feel. It's like a finger pointing away to the moon.
Don't concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly glory."
Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon (1974)
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