Tito's BJJ Coach Knew Fight Would End The Way It Did

The submission Tito Ortiz applied over Ryan Bader, in UFC 132, may have surprised many, but not the Brazilian Ricardo Demente. Owner of a powerful Jiu-Jitsu, the BJJ black belt was the responsible for the ground game trainings of the UFC former champion, and was more than glad about the fight’s outcome.

Did you trained a lot that position or was it a surprise for you that he finished the fight with a guillotine choke?

Yeah, we’re trained a lot this and another two positions. I’ve picked the positions that would fit his game, positions that he’d get quickly and could be effective when the time comes. You can’t predict a MMA fight, but I was hoping he’d try to use he’d go for the submission. I wasn’t that surprised because we’ve trained a lot, so anything could happen.

How were the trainings with Ortiz on the US? Did you only focused in Jiu-Jitsu or did you guys trained all modalities together?

Most of the time we did sparrings for MMA, combined with Jiu-Jitsu and Grappling trainings.

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