Filed under: Bellator , Featured Videos , News , Videos Tito Ortiz said he was about three hours shy of stepping in for Matt Mitrione to fight Fedor Emelianenko at Bellator 172. When Mitrione was scrapped from the card due to kidney stones , Ortiz said he offered to save the Spike-televised card last month at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. “I looked over at (Bellator President) Scott Coker, and this was probably two hours before the fight, and he said, ‘You know what? If you’d told me three hours ago, we would have been working on it,’” Ortiz told MMAjunkie Radio. Ortiz (19-12-1 MMA, 3-1 BMMA) was among three rumored replacements for Mitrione that included Chael Sonnen (29-15-1 MMA, 0-1 BMMA) and Oli Thompson (17-10 MMA, 0-2 BMMA)
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