Sherdogista kopsattuja lainauksia ja huomioita Ortizin elämänkerrasta. Ois Titonkin elämä saattanut kulkea melko erilaista polkua...:
"Tito's birth-name is Jacob. "My father gave me the nickname of Tito when I was about a year old. Tito translated into 'tyrant,' and it kind of fitting because even at age one I was a very bold and bratty kid. But it was apparently mostly in a good way."
At age five Tito started smoking weed and drinking beer. These things were provided by his older half-brothers.
At nine years old Tito would stiff glue "all the time" to get high.
Tito has smoked weed and smoked cocaine. He's done mushrooms, methamphetamine, acid and PCP. "By the time I reached sixth grade, I had done just about every drug there was to do except heroin."
Tito's parents were heroin addicts. When Tito was eight years old his mom became a "lady of the evening" to make money to support her and Tito's dad's habit.
Tito's father looks like an old Mexican version of Jimi Hendrix, afro and all. (I suppose I should admit that this isn't a fact stated in the book but rather an observation I made.)
When Tito was younger (exact age wasn't given) he and his brothers would bring a football to the beach. They'd throw the football around and: "...every once in a while one of us would throw the football at somebody's stuff while they were in the water. When we went to retrieve it, we'd grab people's wallets so we'd have money to buy stuff."
Tito joined a gang called F Troops. Tito was only nine at the time and most of the kids in the gang were age 14 to 16. To join he had to get jumped in. "Being jumped in is an initiation beating. You have to walk this line of about eight kids, usually four on a side. As you walk the line they all beat on you and sucker punch you and you have to take it to prove you're strong enough to join their gang. At the end of the line there's always one guy who gives you the final beatdown."
While attending Dwyer Middle School: "I know I set a record at Dwyer for having the most detentions in a single year in the history of the school. I think it was something like 64."
While a junior high student Tito stole the American flag that was hanging in the post office.
Tito lost his virginity at age 16 to a cheerleader.
During summer vacation after his sophomore year in high school Tito was arrested and convicted of grand theft auto.
During his junior year in high school Tito was 6' 1" and weighed 185.
While in high school (exact age wasn't given): "My friends and I would stake out houses. We'd see when people would go off to work and when they would come back. We'd watch a house for three to four days, then watch for another week, and then that third week we would wait for them to go to work, bust out a side window, unlock the house, back a car in, fill the car up with stuff, and take off. We did that for a good four months."
After high school Tito started dealing meth for almost a year.
Tito stole a gumball machine for his girlfriend as a birthday present. Her parents found out he stole it, made him return it, then made him turn himself in to the police where he was charged with a felony.
"Shortly before I started at Golden West College, I was arrested for burglary. A friend and I had gotten drunk one night and decided to go hit some cars for stereos. This time we got caught."
When Tito helped Tank train it didn't involve any striking: "We just did juijitsu and wrestling... I was taking him down at will and he was getting frustrated. Wrestling was his weakness, and he took what I was trying to teach him grudgingly."
After quitting college Tito worked as a clerk at Spanky's Adult Novelty Store during the day and trained for the UFC at night.
Ortiz was paid $7,500 for his fight against Jerry Bohlander at UFC 18.
Before the fight at UFC 18: "...I was approached by this porno production company called Extreme Associates. They said, 'We'll pitch you a couple of grand if you wear this T-shirt after the fight.' The T-shirt said, 'I just fucked your ass.'"
Ortiz was paid $160,000 for his fight against Vitor Belfort at UFC 51.
After his fight with Belfort: "Word had traveled fast that my contract with the UFC was up, and I began getting offers from competing organizations. Pride out of Japan made an offer for a six-fight deal, but it was essentially the same money I was being offered by the UFC. Besides, the competition was a lot stiffer with Pride and there was a good chance that I would be fighting out of my weight division, so I turned it down."
After his third fight with Ken Shamrock his contract was up. The UFC wanted to re-sign him: "It must have killed Dana to give me the contract he did. He gave me a $200,000 signing bonus and raised my fee to a full million dollars a fight."
For his fight at UFC 73: "...they have me a choice of three fighters: Keith Jardine, Forrest Griffin and Rashad Evans. Keith had already lost to Rashad, and I had already beaten Forrest Griffin. I didn't want an easy fight, so I went with Rashad."
"While training for the Rashad Evans fight, I made what was probably the biggest purchase I will ever make. I bought Oscar De La Hoya's house up in Big Bear, California, for $2.1 million."
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