Tito Ortiz’s version of the 2002 bar brawl with Lee Murray

The first one is Tito's version, the second one is how Matt Hughes recalls it. Tito's version sounds pretty funny. It reminds me of the movie "I'm going to get you sucka" when the guy got beat up and said, "I wasn't screaming man, I was whistling." and the other dude responded, "you were whistling get this b*tch off me." Anyways, if you haven't seen the movie it won't make any sense at all.

http://www.fightopinion.com/2010/08/16/tito-ortiz-lee-murray/?utm_source...

Transcript: Tito Ortiz’s version of the 2002 bar brawl with Lee Murray
By Zach Arnold | August 16, 2010

MICHAEL SCHIAVELLO: “I want to talk about something that’s become part of MMA folklore, MMA urban myth which I want to get you to clarify. 2002… London… Tony Fryklund, Matt Hughes, Pat Miletich, Tito Ortiz, and a man named Lee Murray got into a street fight where apparently Tito Ortiz got knocked out by Lee Murray.”

TITO ORTIZ: “Not true. At all. One of my buddies got beat up, was getting stomped in the concrete outside and I came to his rescue. Me, Chuck Liddell, and Damien started to fight… One of the guys sucker punched our friend Damien, I mean my friend Bo, dropped him on the door, the cab ran over his arm, and Lee Murray was in there. Lee Murray took a swing at me, missed, I took a swing at him, I clinched him, I knee’d him… he broke away, he started running away, I started chasing into him, and he turns around and stops and plants his feet, I go to stop and I slide right into him, he clipped me, dropped me, and I popped right back up. Cops came, broke everybody apart. One of the cops said he was squirt me in the face with mace, I said go ahead because by then I was already snapped, I didn’t give a [expletive], I was surviving, survival skills. I was never unconscious at the time, in my whole life I’ve never been unconscious and I never will go unconscious and… but I think those stories are fabricated a lot to try to build, uh, Lee Murray up but God looks over all of us and now he’s doing a 10-year prison sentence, so karma’s a bitch, huh?”

MICHAEL SCHIAVELLO: “Hello, Lee Murray!”

TITO ORTIZ: “Nah, hey, I think the story doesn’t go any further than that. It was an altercation. I was defending my friend and it was no more than that.”

Matt Hughes recalls streetfight between Tito Ortiz and Lee Murray in 2002

http://www.mmamania.com/2007/12/28/matt-hughes-recalls-streetfight-betwe...

Former welterweight champion Matt Hughes has a new book hitting stores soon. The Sun has been leaking excerpts the last few days right here.

The latest one recalls the unsanctioned street fight between then UFC light heavyweight champion, Tito Ortiz, and former UFC fighter-turned alleged bank robber, Lee Murray, after UFC 38 in July 2002.

Hughes tells the story second-hand via Pat Miletich because he went back to the hotel room and was not involved in the incident (contrary to recent lore).

Here's the snip:

"So it's four o'clock in the morning and they had everybody leave the club, right? Well, the UFC had bussed us all over there but they didn't have a bus to take us back. It's down to Mark, me [Pat Miletich], Tony Fryklund, Chuck Liddell, Tito [Ortiz] and Lee Murray. Lee Murray's crew was still there, Tito's crew was also still there. I walked out the back door to go in the alley. Tito's buddy jumped on my back. He jumped on my back and acted like he had me in a choke hold, just messing around, you know? Then I felt him get ripped off of me. I turned around and Tony Fryklund had HIM in a chokehold, and was really choking him. The guy looked like a mouse that just got trapped in a mousetrap; his eyes were popping out and obviously he wasn't breathing. Tony thought he was actually attacking me – that's the only reason he did it. So I turned round and told Tony to let him go, and Tony let him go. Then Tito's buddy turned around and basically said ‘what the f*** are you doing?' to Tony. Well, when he said that, one of Lee Murray's buddies, that one guy who kind of took care of us all week long, thought this guy was actually trying to fight us, so he ran out of the crowd and cracked this kid with a right hand and knocked him out cold.... The entire alley erupted into a huge brawl. I was just standing there, and there were bodies flying all over the place. I was confused how it all happened, because it happened so fast. I was standing there with my mouth open like ‘what the hell is going on?' I looked over and Chuck Liddell was with his back against the wall, knocking people out that were trying to go after him. Then I looked over and there's Tito directly past me, taking his coat off, going after Lee Murray, and Lee Murray's backing up the alley taking his jacket off. Both their jackets come off, and Tito throws a left hook at Lee Murray and misses, and right as he missed, Lee Murray counters with, like, a five-punch combo, landed right on the chin, and knocked Tito out. OUT. Tito fell face-first down to the ground, and then Lee Murray stomped him on the face a couple of times with his boots."

I've heard this story told numerous times and none of them seem to be the same. This one is no different. Massive amounts of booze tend do that to a drunken herd of men.

To check out all of the excerpts from Matt Hughes' new book entitled, "Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History" click here. It sounds so far like an entertaining read.