Tito Ortiz Bitter Over White House UFC Snub Amid Long Dana White Feud

With just weeks to go before the America 250 UFC fight at the White House, former champion Tito Ortiz said he is bitter over not being invited to the event.

Ortiz, 51, told OutKick's "Tomi Lahren is Fearless" podcast that his long feud with UFC CEO Dana White has cost him an invitation. "I wish I was invited to the White House card, and I'm not," he said.

White was Ortiz's manager before taking over the UFC. The two later clashed over contracts and money, and the dispute once led to a fistfight on a flight to Japan. White has said Ortiz tried to hurt him with a neck hold, and he punched Ortiz in the ribs.

Ortiz said the bad blood continues. "After the 16 years I gave to them from the very beginning, when they first bought the company, to almost the end, where they sold the company. I don't get tickets. I gotta pay for my own tickets when I do want to go," he said.

He told host Tomi Lahren that he spent $1,000 to attend a recent UFC event in Miami. "If you're on Dana's good side, you don't have to pay for anything," Ortiz said. "I'm first one to actually tell you he's 100% correct. Don't get on his bad side. But it's childish. I mean, it's like, to me, it's just it's petty. It's really petty. I've done so much for that company."

Ortiz, now a Florida resident, said he will watch the White House event from his Tito's Cantina in Cape Coral. He said he plans to keep working for the future of the country and his children.