This should be interesting…Former amateur boxer and boxercise instructor Dana White to "spar" with Tito Ortiz in boxing:
Beating Up His Boss - Calgary Sun
It's every working stiff's dream. A chance to punch out the boss without getting summarily turfed.
Tito Ortiz, the Ultimate Fighting Championship's flamboyant motormouth, plans to do just that.
"I'm gonna try to take his head off," Ortiz said of UFC president Dana White.
Former friends Ortiz and White had a parting of the ways early last year over Ortiz's contract.
The 'Huntington Beach Bad Boy' left the UFC in early 2005 after the simmering feud between him and White boiled over.
But in the world of fight promotion, profit potential tends to trump bad blood every time. Late last year, White announced Ortiz had been re-signed to a three-fight contract and would become the Season 3 coach of the ultra-popular reality-TV show The Ultimate Fighter.
But before Ortiz signed on the dotted line, he had a special clause added to the contract.
"We have a little agreement in the contract that we're going to spar boxing for three three-minute rounds," said Ortiz.
White, an amateur boxer and fight manager before buying the UFC in 2000, said in a recent Playboy interview he gave up on his dream to be a pro boxer because he "didn't have it."
Ortiz is hopeful a little spilled blood between the two will help mend fences.
"Me and Dana were best of friends before this company took off," said Ortiz.
"He was my manager and he was a good friend of mine. It's someone who I love but at the same time I hate him and I think that after we punch each other in the face a few times we might be able to fix that bridge between us and let bygones be bygones."
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There's nothing like good ol' fashion physical violence to settle differences!