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Over the years, Tito Ortiz blurred the line between the couch and the cage

When it’s all said and done, we will look back at Tito Ortiz’s twilight years in professional fighting as therapy sessions for one party or the other. His fight with Chael Sonnen has long been an oversized wrench in his box of grudges, mostly because Sonnen beat him in a collegiate wrestling bout nearly 20 years ago. His fight with Liam McGeary was a chance for McGeary to overcome being star struck, and he accomplished that with an inverted triangle choke of the icon. In Ortiz’s last UFC fight, Forrest Griffin needed “The People’s Champ” to deal with his anxiety issues.