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03-13-2010, 06:12 PM
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|  Rumor: Rich Franklin replaces Tito Ortiz on The Ultimate Fighter Season 11
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Rich Franklin replaces Tito Ortiz on The Ultimate Fighter Season 11
Posted by Cory Brady on Saturday, March 13, 2010
FiveOuncesofPain.com reported earlier this afternoon that Rich Franklin would likely be replacing Tito Ortiz in an upcoming light heavyweight showdown with Chuck Liddell, and it now appears that Franklin was enlisted to replace Ortiz as a coach during the recent taping of the eleventh season of The Ultimate Fighter as well.
The possibility of the late coaching switch was first reported by MMAJunkie.com and FiveOuncesofPain.com has received the same information through sources close to the situation.
Those same sources further indicated to 5 Oz. that Franklin was pegged to fill in for Ortiz at some point midway through the taping of TUF 11, which recently concluded.
Liddell and Ortiz had been expected to face off for the third time at the conclusion of TUF 11, but an unexpected twist of events appears to have Rich Franklin tabbed to meet with “The Iceman” at UFC 115.
Franklin is no stranger to The Ultimate Fighter, as the former UFC middleweight champion was the featured coach during the second season, and a guest coach on season four
Rich Franklin replaces Tito Ortiz on The Ultimate Fighter Season 11 | Five Ounces of Pain | This just keeps getting better and better.
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03-13-2010, 06:30 PM
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very interesting.....not sure if i believe it though, i'll wait till some more info surfaces before i get too worked up. if it is true this is a much better match up imo
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03-13-2010, 06:32 PM
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didn't we already establish that chuck and tito are still fighting in another thread.
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03-13-2010, 06:33 PM
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Half of this is bullshit. Dana said on his Twitter that Ortiz and Chuck were still on. Maybe Ortiz had some issues with the new twins, and he had to leave.
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03-13-2010, 06:33 PM
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Yeah, I saw that and I saw a tweet from Dana saying they're doing Couture/Franklin, NOT Chuck, but the Franklin talk just keeps popping up.
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03-15-2010, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by GL Jeff Half of this is bullshit. Dana said on his Twitter that Ortiz and Chuck were still on. Maybe Ortiz had some issues with the new twins, and he had to leave. | take what dana says on twitter with a grain of salt. He loves his press conferences.
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03-15-2010, 09:01 AM
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I wonder who these "sources" are. I want to believe this, mostly because I'm much more interested in a Chuck/Franklin fight than I am a third fight between Chuck and Tito.
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03-15-2010, 10:40 AM
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Interesting....The plot thickens. We wont know the truth until we see it.
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03-15-2010, 11:50 AM
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shouldnt they have just wrapped up tapings?
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03-15-2010, 01:02 PM
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Great way to stir up interest in TUF if you ask me. Now we have the message boards talking about it all over the place and you know people are going to tune in wanting to know what went down with Tito.
Marketing genius perhaps?
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