ESPN MMA's Hot Button: Is Ortiz Still Elite?

Sherdog.com StaffJul 07, 2011
Every week inside ESPN.com's MMA section, two scribes debate the most pressing issues in the sport in the Hot Button.

This week, in the wake of Tito Ortiz's upset win over Ryan Bader, Sherdog.com Administrative Editor Jordan Breen and ESPN.com's Chuck Mindenhall debate whether or not "The Huntington Beach Bad Boy" is still an elite fighter.

Is Ortiz a victim of his own celebrity, doomed to constantly face strings of elite-level light heavyweights while battling injury? Or has the MMA world overreacted to Ortiz's lone win in nearly five years.

Click here to read the latest ESPN MMA Hot Button.