Nice beginning episode. Much better than last year. They have some good talent in the pool. I wonder who gets the wild card entrance? I think the guy with the busted eye socket is a good possibility, put him against the guy with the broken nose.
Alot of banging and very little wrestling or BJJ. It should at least produce some interesting fights.
The gay dude, Nick, had some nice all around skill. That Henle guy pulled out a nice arm bar. But most want to stand and bang.
That's because they only showed the exciting fights, bunch of other guys fought too that didn't get televised and some were wrestlers.
according tp sherdog: Nick Ring Age: 30 Record: 10-0 Though he missed more than three years with a knee injury, Ring remains a force inside the cage. The unbeaten Brazilian jiu-jitsu brown belt and former Canadian national muay Thai champion has posted three straight first-round finishes since his May 2009 return. Anchored at BDB Martial Arts in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the 30-year-old was a bronze medalist at the 2008 Fila Grappling World Championships. Ring has secured half of his 10 career victories by submission.
Still, in 4 years he only had 7 fights. That's not much for a novice pro, be it MMA or Boxing. Dick Ring is a lazy hommo-sexual, clearly. But yeah, it seems Gatti does have a bit of a boycrush on Dick Ring, and is letting his imagination get the better of him.
you guys need to rewatch the episode. Listen to him speak after his fight. Clearly gay and other mma forums have picked up on this.
Fucking hell, that IS nasty. His nose went from a fairly convex nose (the bridge) to completely fucking concave. He literally looks like a different person, his nose is just completely different.
no shit, thats a pretty bad break. One thought, this cat is a tough dude. Nose busted to shit, he was still game to fight on. After the fight he wasn't cryin or whining neither. I have seen guys whine like a motherfucker off a broken nose too. Mine got broke once, that shit hurts!(i just yelled fuck over and over)
Yeah, I think this is indicative of playing to the fans and not playing to the reality of who the better fighters are. There were very few submissions. I only remember one towards the end because it happened right after I noticed that there weren't any.
The coaches didn't say an awful lot but Tito Ortiz still managed to get under my skin....what's the deal with him coaching and rooting for fighters already?
Because his trainers cornered certain fighters. I was wondering the same thing and that's the only reasoning I could find. It's the same reason Hackleman and Chuck were calling the French dude a pussy. Well, that, and it's commonly accepted.
I loved it when his friend (who he was fighting) took a step back and said "Damn your nose is fucked up" or something like that. I've broken my nose 3 times. Football, boxing and skiing. The first two times I had a doctor snap it back into place which was worse than the break. The third time I just let it go because I was skiing in Arizona and didn't want to fuck up the trip. Now I have a snout that leans prominently to the left. None of them looked anything like the morbid display of cartilage twisting that happened to this dude on TUF.
Yeah, the dude's nose looks like what you would expect the mythical broken nose into the brain would look like.
Jesus Christ, that looks painful. Especially that high up. Reminds me of Rich Franklin's nose getting crushed in and smeared up to Franklin's right. My nose stings just looking at that.
