Anybody Checking Out the LATEST Season of TUF; Penn vs. Edgar???... Barely 20 Minutes Into the New Season, THE Most Improbable, Come from Behind Win REED's EVER (Personally) Seen in MMA Occurred...Jake Heun, who's LOST Trying to Get in the TUF House Previously, was Beating the Living Shit Out of a a Bible Banging Brother Named Todd Monaghan, in as 1-Sided a Fight as You Could Imagine, w/Out it Being STOPPED... 15 Seconds Into the Fight, Heun DROPPED Monaghan HARD w/a Right & Started Hammer Fisting Him...Heun Completely OWNED the Brother Standing, Clinched him Up & Took him to the Ground, Where he RAINED Punches & Elbows (Some Borderline RABBIT Punches) on his CLEARLY Hurt Foe... Admirably, the Brother Rose, but was Met w/Not 1, but 2 VICIOUS Knees, Which Sent him BACK to the Canvas...By this Point, his Body was DRUNKEN & REED Said Aloud "Stop It"...Heun CONTINUED to Dominate Monaghan on the Ground, Attempted to MOUNT Him & Took Dude's Back as he Instinctively Rolled Out of the Mount...He Dropped MORE Meaty Shots to the Sides of Dude's Head...Keun Eventually Gets Monaghan on his Back, Goes for the Kill & Gets Caught in an ARMBAR & SUBMITTED!!!... As Only Dana White Can Verbalize, "Keun was WHUPPING his Ass the Entire Fight"...The WINNING Fighter Went Up to Keun & Said "I Never Got my Ass Whupped Before", as a Show of RESPECT to Keun... CRAZIEST Shit REED's Ever Seen in the Octagon... REED:hammert:
Josh Stansbury was WORKING an Irishman Named Chris Fields Pretty GOOD, Took Fields Down & INJURED his Left Knee in the Process... Chris Fields BACKED Into the House... Strangely Enough, the Guys that Got Dressed in the Edgar Designated Dressing Room CUT their UFC Shorts for Good Luck & All of them Won, Until... Stansbury Decided NOT to Cut his Shorts... REED:scared:
Yes sir. I watched and was shocked when Heun got caught. Poor guy. Wasn't it a nice change to see two coaches that are respectful and actually interacting while watching the fights? i loved he long haired dude in the last fight. That guy is tough as nails and is going to be a tough fight for anyone. Penn screwed up with the first fight by not picking an Edgar fighter that was in a tough first fight to go against Penn's Irish fighter that got a bye into the house.
Still on the Topic of the 1st Episode, REED's NEVER Seen a No Handed KNEE BAR Placed on a Guy...Not Only Did Mike King Apply it, but the Shit BENT BACK the Knee of his Opponent... WOW!!!... This Season's Off to a GREAT Start... REED:clapagain:
Cathal Pendred Beacme The 1st TUF Contestant to EVER Make It Into the House WITHOUT Having to Fight, but he PROVED He Belonged Very Quickly... Overcame ADVERSITY, Losing Round 1 to Hector Urbina, then DOMINATED Him in the Next 2 Stanzas... REED
I hope im wrong and hopefully it was just a long layoff, but he was taking necessary shots and seemed flawed in many areas
Daniel Spohn Easily Beat Bible Banging Todd Monaghan...Took him Down w/Little Resistance & KEPT Him Down in Both Rounds... After Earning his Way into the House w/an EXPLOSIVE 1st Round KO, Spohn Laid & Prayed Monaghan into "Bolivian", Much to the Dismay of Dana White... REEDopcorn:
Dhiego Lima vs. Tim Williams... Lima Got Straight Up OWNED in Round 1...Round 2 Wasn't Going Soooo Well Either, Until Williams LOST Dominant Ground Position, After BLOODYING Lima & Seemed to Be WELL On his Way to the Next Round... Next Thing You Know Lima's Got him in a RNC, Fight's Over... REED
Win Today, Look Impressive Tomorrow... Spohn EXPLAINED his Strategy Well After the Fight...Talked about Letting it ALL Hang Out in the Semi-Finals, Knowing he'd Have a Few Months Until the Televised Finale... Sucks for the Fans @ Times, but Ultimately, Fans Should Be The Fuuuuuuuuuurthest Thought from a Fighter's Mind... REED:hammert:
Cory Anderson vs. Josh Clark... Cory's a Talented Fighter & Won his Bout w/Very Little Fuss, but if Clark had ANY Respectable Level of BJJ, he'd Have Taken Advantage of the NUMEROUS Heel Hook & Leglock Opportunities, Not to Mention a Couple Triangle Opportunities that Presented Themselves... Having Said That, Cory's Wrestling is Pretty LEGIT, he's YOUNG & He's ATHLETIC...He's a Definite Force Among the 205'ers... Speaking of Wrestling, Roger Zapata Inserted Himself as 1 of the "Assholes" of the Show, by Revealing how "Simple" he Thinks Wrestling Is...Karma's a BITCH Though & Zapata Fights Next, vs. a Wrestler... The BIGGEST Dipshit of the Show is Easily Matt Van Buren, who Refers to Himself as "Gutter"...Hopefully he Catches a BEATDOWN in his 1st Fight... REEDopcorn:
Ian Stephens vs. Roger Zapata... Seemed like an EASY Fight to Score, to REED...Stephens Took Zapata Down 2-3 Times, Slammed THE SHIT Out of Him, Assumed & MAINTAINED Dominant Position Throughout the 1st Round...It was the DEFINITION of "Cage Control", to REED's Understanding Of It... Dana White Called Stephens a "Human Blanket", but the Fact is, he KEPT DOMINANT Decision...If Stephens Knew How to Apply an RNC, he'd have SUBMITTED Zapata... Round 2 was even MORE Definiitive in Stephens' Favor...Seemed like an EASY Fight to Score, 2 Round Decision Victory for Ian Stephens, Right???......For What it's Worth, Zapata Had DEFEATIST Body Language, as if he KNEW He'd Lost...THEN, Shit Got Interesting... The Judges had it EVEN After 2, so Round 3 Ensued... Stephens was NOTICEABLY Fatigued & Zapata was Stuffing his Takedown Attempts, Dropping Some NASTY Elbows Too, Eventually CUTTING Stephens on the Top of the Head...After Some Borderline 12 to 6 Bows, Referee Steve Mazagatti Took a Point...Dana White Claimed Mazaggti Should've WARNED him 1st, but Mazagatti DID in Earlier Rounds... After the Point Deduction, Stephenson Resumed the Control he Seemed to Have in Rounds 1 & 2...As the Round Ended, Zapata 1nce Again had DEFEATIST Body Language... So the Judges Scored 1 Round for Each Guy, then a Guy had a Point DEDUCTED & Clearly Lost the Latter Half of Round 3...EASY Round to Score, Right???.... Somehow, Roger Zapata's FAT, Irritating, Shit Talking Ass Got the Verdict... REEDff:
Is it just REED or Does Ian Stephens have...Uuuuuuh...a Pretty NICE Body???... NO HOMO of course REED:limp:
"Fat" Pat Walsh vs. Anton Berzin... 'Nother 3 Rounder... Berzin TALKED the Talk, LOOKED the Part Physically & Even had the Audacity to Tell Chuck Liddell's Former Coach, Hackelman, What he Did OR DIDN'T Want to Learn, while Doing Mitts...He Felt He was the COMPLETE Package Prior to Arriving @ the House & Basically SHITTED on the World Class Coaching that was @ his Disposal... Round 1 was CLOSE, but was Scored for Berzin...Anton was on the Verge of Dominating Early, Until Walking into a Hip Toss that Would Make Ronda Rousey Proud...From There, it was Pretty Much "Fat" Pat's Fight...Walsh Got him to the Ground in Rounds 2-3, KEPT him Down & DOMINATED w/Strikes... Walsh Basically BROKE Anton's Spirit in the 2nd & SEIZED the Fight in the 3rd... REED:hammert:
Eddie Gordon vs. Mike King, Yet Another 3 Rounder & a HIGH Contact Fight... King's a WRESTLER who Whipped Out a No-Handed Knee Bar, to Get Into the House (Something REED's NEVER Seen Before), yet he Talked about Fighting a STAND UP Fight w/Gordon, who Is ALL Stand Up & Okay Takedown Defense, Exclusively...Even AGAINST the Advice of B.J., Mark Coleman and the Other Blue Team Coaches, King TALKED about Standing and TRADING... & to his Credit, he SUCCESSFULLY Did that in Round 1...@ 6'3, King's a BIG ASS Middleweight...Standing Next to the Lighheavy's on the Show, You CAN'T Tell who the Middleweight Is...Up Until about the First 3rd of Round 2, King Seemed On his Way to a 2 Round Decision... THEN, He Got Poked in the Right Eye VERY Badly...Gordon Won the Remainder Enough to Warrant a 3rd & Decisive Round...w/his Sight COMPROMISED, King Finally Decided to Go for Takedowns, but by then it was to No Avail, as Gordon STUFFED them & Landed Counterstrikes to Offset King's Desperate, Fatigued Attempts, Eventually Taking the Decision... King's the BETTER Fighter, but he STUBBORNLY Executed the WRONG Strategy...He's Also Got QUITE a Shiner Under his Right Eye, from Getting his Eye Finger Fucked...But the GOOD News for King is, if MMA Doesn't Work Out, he Can Always Pursue a Pro Wrestling Career & Sell Himself as the New Millennium Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Ooooooh Yeeeah!!!!... In the Coaches Challenge, B.J. Won a Kayak Race, Probably THE Most UNFAIR Coaches Challenge in TUF History, Considering Water Sports/Activities are Part of Penn's Hawaiian Culture... Up Next Week, THE Biggest Grudge Match in the House, Matt "Gutter" Van Buren vs. Chris Fields...Van Buren Seems ALL Mouth, NO Action to REED, but he Obviously Beat SOMEBODY to Get Into the TUF House... REED:hammert:
They explained how, finally, at the end: Majority Draw with Stephenson getting one judge. However, with a draw they apparently just let all judges choose a winner and all 3 chose Zapata. So, there really was nothing to get excited about so long as the rules were clear beforehand which we must assume they were. Took a long time for TUF to have this happen.
Matt Van Buren vs. Chris Fields... Typically, when 2 Guys DETEST Each Other, it Makes for an EXCITING Fight...In this Case, the Combatants RESPECTED 1 Another Tooooo Much, to the DISMAY of Dana White...In his Own Words; "Normally, I'll Break Down the Fight and I'll Tell You What Went Down & What Happened. Nothing Fucking Happened. Nothing Interesting or Exciting Happened. You Guys Had to Sit Through it and Watch It, the Last Thing You Want to Do is Hear Me Remind You of How Fucking Uneventful It Was. I Feel Like This is the Seasons of Guys that Just Don't Give a Shit"... From There, Dana CHASTISED All the Remaining TUF Participants Individually AND Collectively...REED Thinks Dana Was Being a Bit HARSH, but Then Again, that's Probably the Reason NOBODY Other than REED has Really Given a Fuck About this Season or Thread:l2:... Anyways, the Semi-Final Matchups are; Eddie Gordon vs. Cathal Pendred Corey Anderson vs. "Fat" Pat Walsh Dhiego Lima vs. Roger Zapata Matt Van Buren vs. Daniel Spohn REEDance1:
Eddie Gordon vs. Cathal Pendred... Gordon Dominated the 1st 1/3 of Round 1 w/Strikes, Getting Cathal to the Ground & Slicing him Open w/an Elbow...That Burst VISIBLY Fatigued Gordon & Pendred Took the Last 2/3 of the Round, Taking Gordon Down 3 Times, Landing a Spinning Heel Kick & Taking Gordon's Back... Cathal FORCED the Issue to Begin Round 2, but was VERY Sloppy w/Spinning Heels and Backfists...He BADLY Telegraphed a Backfist & was Taken to the Ground, Where Gordon RAINED Punches & Elbows Upon Him... 3rd Round was Tough to Score as Both Men were DRUNKENLY Fatigued, Grappling Against the Cage, Primarily...The Last 2 Minutes of the Round was All Standup w/Cathal Landing Leg Kicks & Gordon Landing Punches... EXTREMELY Close Fight...A 4th Round May have Been Warranted...1 of Those Fights You HATE to See a Guy LOSE... In the End, Eddie Gordon Got the Verdict by Split Decision, 29-28, 28-29, 29-28... REED:mj:
Corey Anderson vs. "Fat" Pat Walsh... Walsh Pissed Out his Fellow Red Team Members by Getting EXTRA Workouts w/BJ Penn & the Blue Team Guys...w/John Hackleman & Mark Coleman Being on Penn's Staff, there's a WEALTH of Knowledge There... REED Completely Understood WHY Walsh Wanted to Work Out w/Them as Well (It's NOT Like he was Kicking his Own Squad to the Curb), but Dude was CONFRONTED by the Red Team for Doing it...Ultimately, it's an INDIVIDUAL Sport & It Seemed Kinda SHITTY to REED, How the Guys Ganged Up on Walsh for Simply Doing what he Felt was Best for HIS Development... Walsh is Very UNimpressive to LOOK @, but he's Got Some Workable Talents...Unorthodox, yet VERY Relaxed Standup...Throws Punches from Crazy Angles, SMILES as he's Trading Shots, Keeps his Hands By his Side More Times than Not...GREAT Wrestler... Unfortunately, he Got DRILLED w/a Hard Right Cross, a Series of Follow Up Rights & a Knee, Which Cut Him Under the Right Eye...Corey Then Took him to the Ground 2wice... Walsh Had LOST of Success in Round 2, Dropping Winging Lefts and Rights on Anderson...Walsh Showcased Respectable Handspeed & BEAT Anderson to the Punch, More Often than Not, Even Bloodying Corey's Nose...Still, the BIGGER Anderson Would Land Right Crosses to GREATER Effect...w/1:30 Remaining in the Round, Anderson HURT Walsh w/a HUGE Knee, Took him Down & Landed 3-4 More CLEAN Shots, from Top Position...Walsh Eventually Got to his Feet & Tried Some DESPERATE Takedowns, but All were Stuffed by Anderson... Corey Actually Started JABBING in the 3rd, which he SHOULD have Been Doing All Along, Considering his HEIGHT & REACH Advantage... It was a Competitive Fight but Corey Clearly Won...Having Said That, Corey's MECHANICAL In a Way REED Doesn't Like...He's GOOD, he's BIG, Accomplished WRESTLER, but there just Seems to Be SOMETHING Missing There...REED Can't Put his Finger On It... Anyways, Corey Won Unanimously, 30-27... REED:mj:
I'd say this is the worst season of TUF. Perhaps the worst quality of fighters, the worst fights, and the least interesting house interaction. It's like the trinity of shit.
The finals were nice unexpected blowouts. The shit of the season is evident in that besides the finals, there was only one other fight with guys from the show and it was buried in the prelim card.
Yeah, REED Tried his Best to LIKE this Season of TUF, but Ultimately NOBODY from This Season has a Ton of Promise...Corey Anderson's NOT Bad, but he'll Be No More than a Respectable Contender @ 205... & he's a Couple YEARS Away from Being That, in REED's Opinion.... REED:hammert:
