There's only one thing Tito Ortiz can do Saturday night if he wants to avoid the recent retirement route of UFC Hall of Famers Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell - that's win."Biggest fight of my career? One hundred per cent," said Ortiz (15-8-1 MMA, 14-8-1 UFC), who takes on Ryan Bader (12-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) on the pay-per-view main card of UFC 132 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena."Every fight is the biggest fight of my career. The one in front of me is the one that can put me up and over. This fight I can shut up a lot of people, but I have to go out there and do my job."A win would not only keep the 36-year-old's illustrious career going, it would snap a winless streak of five matches for the former light heavyweight champ - a skid that started after his last win in October of 2006, when "The Huntington Beach Bad" scored a TKO victory over Ken Shamrock.Since then Ortiz has endured severe neck and back injuries, several well-publicized feuds - professionally with UFC boss Dana Wh ite, personally with his wife, former adult actress Jenna Jameson - and losses to Liddell, Lyoto Machida, Forrest Griffin and Matt Hamill as well as a draw against Rashad Evans.Ortiz wasn't knocked out in any of those contests - ones that he points out, excluding the Hamill fight, came against either the current 205-pound champ or fighters who went on to earn the belt - but he didn't exactly demonstrate the same skill set that made him the longest reigning light heavyweight champ in UFC history in the early 2000s, either.And despite being a 5-to-1 underdog to Bader at most Las Vegas sports books, Ortiz says he's got the utmost confidence not only for Saturday's fight against the former All-American wrestler from Arizona State, but his future in MMA."I still think I have a lot more fight in me, I want to fight," said Ortiz, whose bout with Bader will mark his 24th fight in the UFC - tying him with Couture and Matt Hughes for the most ever."I'm going out on my own terms."Well, not if he loses according to the UFC president. White, who Ortiz said he begged to for one more shot after his setback to Hamill, said a loss would be the end of the road for Ortiz in the UFC."He absolutely has to get this win to continue on," White said. "Dude, it's 2011. He's got to win."White, who says he and Ortiz have squashed the animosity that once forced Ortiz out of the UFC, said he isn't completely ruling out that Ortiz could find a way to win."It's a tough fight with Bader," said White. "But like I said earlier, Tito fights the best when his back is against the wall. It's up to Tito on Saturday night."Ortiz knows the reality of the situation having seen his contemporaries, Liddell and Couture - superstars, like himself, who helped turn the fledgling UFC into a global phenomenon - both hang up their five-ounce gloves within the past year."It sucked watching Chuck go out the way he did," said Ortiz of the 41-year-old Liddell, who retired after losing for the fifth time in six matches when Rich Franklin KO'd him last June at UFC 115 in Vancouver."We had our bad blood toward each other, but before this company got big - before this business got big - Chuck and I were friends. We're the first Team Punishment members. To see him go out the way he did, it sucked."Ortiz watched the 48-year-old Couture call it quits in April in Toronto when a surprising front kick from Machida knocked out his tooth and forced him into the history books."Seeing Randy go out the way he did, it was heartfelt. I always looked to Randy as a sort of role model in my life," Ortiz said. "I'm doing the best I can do to be like Randy. To see him go out the way he did, it sucked."Unlike some of the trash talk he's spouted at past opponents, there's been mutual respect between Bader and Ortiz."I'm honoured to fight Tito. I grew up watching him fight," said Bader, who is coming off his first professional loss when he was choked out by 205-pound champ Jon Jones at UFC 126 in February."I'm taking this fight as the best Tito that's ever come out. His back is against the wall. He's gonna come out and throw everything he's got at me and I'm prepared for that."If this is indeed Ortiz's swan song, he said he's comfortable with the 14-year career that played out since he debuted with a TKO win over Wes Albritton at UFC 13 on May 30, 1997 in Augusta, Georgia."I would love to make another run at the title, but I think Saturday night will tell everything," Ortiz said. "I think I've achieved everything under the sun in mixed martial arts. I've done things many things people have never seen. I'm thankful for it."Being a businessman, being a father, being a fighter, I've really pushed it to the next level. This from a kid who was on the streets 20 years ago, who wasn't supposed to achieve anything in life, I think my kids will be proud of me and know that I was one of the greatest light heavyweight champions in the world."
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