Tito Ortiz & Marc Shapiro – This Is Gonna Hurt: The Life of a Mixed Martial Arts Champion

Tito Ortiz & Marc Shapiro – This Is Gonna Hurt: The Life of a Mixed Martial Arts Champion

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Salepage: Tito Ortiz & Marc Shapiro – This Is Gonna Hurt: The Life of a Mixed Martial Arts Champion

Tito Ortiz, one of the most flamboyant and divisive fighters in UFC history, tells the narrative of how he rose to fame in the organization from being a bad kid from Huntington Beach as a child to being a showman in the octagon in front of 20,000 live spectators and 4 million television viewers.

A controversial, flamboyant personality who has dominated Ultimate Fighting for more than ten years as one of its most thrilling and talented stars, he is the pinnacle of showmanship in the biggest spectator sport in the world.

But Tito Ortiz’s life almost went in a different direction. Ortiz spent a portion of his youth living in hotels and the basements of other people’s homes when he was growing up in Huntington Beach, California, as his parents’ heroin addictions pushed them out of one apartment after another. His early years included time spent in juvenile correctional facilities, a number of little offenses, and a period spent with a local gang. By the time he was in sixth grade, he had experimented with practically every substance accessible. Then, in high school, Tito found wrestling, which was ideal for this tough, shrewd, and ambitious young man.

At UFC 13 in 1997, Tito made his mixed martial arts debut by winning his first match in twenty-two seconds. He won the title after being selected as a light heavyweight contender for UFC 25 in 2000, successfully defending it five times over the course of the next three years.

As he describes his journey from Huntington Beach Bad Boy to UFC superstardom, Tito Ortiz doesn’t hold back. He discusses his challenging upbringing, his troubled first marriage and issues with faithfulness, his conflicts with the UFC, his career highs and lows, and his current happy relationship with former porn star Jenna Jameson. This Is Gonna Hurt is a raw, honest, humorous, and as brave as its subject This is Gonna Hurt is an uplifting story of defeating the odds and an extraordinary peek into precisely what it takes to succeed in the world’s most cruel arena.

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