Coleman out of Fight with Ortiz

[keithlewis]

Sources close to Mark Coleman have confirmed he is out of his scheduled UFC 106 bout with Tito Ortiz. News of Coleman's withdrawl first appeared on the Twiiter Tito Ortiz account Monday night.

Ortiz (15-6-1) hasn’t competed since May 24, 2008, when he lost a unanimous decision to current UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida. After losing to Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in his UFC return, Coleman (16-9) scored an upset at UFC 100 with a unanimous decision victory over Stephan Bonnar.

No reason was given for Coleman’s withdrawal as of Tuesday morning.

[Educr1]

Too bad. I was excited for this fight.

[keithlewis]

Mark Coleman’s manager Mike DiSabato has responded furiously to Tito Ortiz calling his fighter a ‘sissy’. Ortiz used his Twitter account in the early hours of this morning to reveal that Coleman was out of their UFC 106 fight. He said the MMA veteran had “sissied out”.

“Mark Coleman is not a talker, he is a fighter. He is a Hall of Famer who has fought a Who's Who of great fighters. Tito says "sissy"? Please. He can prove Coleman is sissy on January 2nd if he wants,” was DiSabato’s response to the comments during a conversation with Fighters Only.

“The only thing Coleman is afraid of when it comes to Tito is contracting swine flu from that dirty ass d-bag. We all know where he lays his head down at night. Tito wants to get personal with a legend? OK, let's get personal - we can all go to our porn collections and watch what Tito sleeps with night after night,” he added.

Coleman’s camp have asked for the fight to be postponed until UFC 108, which takes place on January 2nd 2010. Coleman is expected to be fit to fight by then, but DiSabato says the final decision is the UFC’s.

“Coleman has already asked UFC to push it back, but it is not in Mark's hands as he will do what is good for UFC and what his employer thinks is best for the promotion. I got to think if Tito really wants to fight Mark he can ask Joe Silva to give him Coleman on January 2nd,” he said.

http://www.fightersonlymagazine.co.uk/n ... hp?id=3197

[ArmyofDarkness]

“The only thing Coleman is afraid of when it comes to Tito is contracting swine flu from that dirty ass d-bag. We all know where he lays his head down at night. Tito wants to get personal with a legend? OK, let's get personal - we can all go to our porn collections and watch what Tito sleeps with night after night,” he added.

CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR TITO'S RESPONSE TO THIS AND COLEMAN PULLING OUT OF THIS FIGHT AND THE LESNAR ONE CAN'T MAKE DANA HAPPY.