Tito Ortiz vs. Dana White
As part of his contract renegotiations, Tito Ortiz wanted a boxing match with Dana White, who enthusiastically arranged a Spike TV documentary showing his training regime leading up to the fight.
However, Ortiz no-showed the weigh-ins and refused to fight, claiming he wasn’t getting paid.
“The reality is I used to beat the living s–t out of Tito Ortiz back when we first bought this company and we used to box,” White claimed afterwards.
Years later White revealed on Conan that the two did actually come to blows after a playfight on a private jet got out of hand when Ortiz caught him in a neck crank.
“I was tapping, and he didn’t stop,” White said. “You can seriously hurt somebody in a neck crank, especially as big and strong as Tito is. So I just started…punching him in the ribs – and when he let go, (I) just jumped up, and it was just a full blown fistfight in the plane.”
