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The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 8
By Zach Arnold | October 5, 2006
By Zach Arnold
Update: The Boston Herald tells you what you didn’t see on TUF with Jorge Rivera’s post-fight speech. I realize that he was personal in the information he relayed in his interview, but why would TUF TV producers edit this out of the show? It would have really been interesting to watch and not at all embarassing to Mr. Rivera.
Now, onto the recap…
Recap of Matt Serra on same team as Shonie Carter, only person to KO him in a fight. With help of Serra, Shonie won his first TUF fight. Shonie rubbed Team No Love the wrong way. Only one fight left: Jorge Rivera vs. Patrick Cote.
Winner: Matt Serra over Pete Spratt (highlights from last week), comments from Gideon Ray and Edwin DeWees.
At the house, Shonie Carter says everyone is a bunch of nasty motherfuckers, as puts dishwashing liquid into the dishwashing machine. Shonie says he isn’t looking at this as a team deal, so he decided to work out with the Blue team instead of his Gray team. Jorge Rivera says it’s the Blue team, so Shonie’s not welcome to train with them. “I don’t give a fuck about teams, this isn’t a team sport to me.” Shonie drops a ton of F-bombs. “Listen to my vernacular. You are tiptoeing with danger. When you deal with the devil, you better use a longhanded spoon. I’ll take you out.” Really.
Rich Clementi said the Gray team should have stepped in and stopped Shonie from training with the Blue team. Randy sided with Shonie, smiling and saying “You do what you got to do.”
Matt Serra went on a tirade. “He needed our ass to get past Rich. He got as far as he did because of us. Motherfucker!” He says they are going to the gym to take care of him.
(commercial break)
Matt Serra sees the Blue team sticking around for training at the gym. Travis Lutter tells Serra that Jorge was pissed about Shonie. Serra lectures Shonie. Shonie tells Serra that it won’t happen again. Serra says “the real Shonie” has yet to be seen.
We see Shonie sleeping and snoring in bed while everyone else is around a campfire outside. Pete Sell says Shonie should kiss their ass. Serra says that if he had choice in the semi-finals, he’d fight Shonie.
Patrick Cote is shown training with Georges St. Pierre. GSP says the key to beating Jorge Rivera is to put pressure on and make him back up. GSP says there’s no doubt about Patrick winning. Mark DellaGrotte says that he’s been training Jorge for years, but that Jorge has gained skills since coming onto the show. Jorge says that he will get Patrick in the clinch and beat him badly.
Dana White talks to both teams, telling them that he heard that the teams thought Rich Franklin was a “dick.” Dana then brings out Chuck Liddell as a guest trainer, who gets an ovation. Liddell is there to train with the guys for a week. Liddell has black & pink painted toenails (nice job, Willa). Serra had good words to say about Chuck.
(commercial break)
We see Randy Couture watching Patrick Cote training in the gym. Patrick is from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He says he likes to be a little bit cocky during the fight. Dana says that Cote’s record is 8-3, but that all three of those losses were in UFC. Cote expressed displeasure about the decision loss to Chris Leben.
(commercial break)
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Training session for Team No Love. Jorge Rivera, 34 years old, from Uxbridge, Massachusetts. He said he used to fight a lot, that he was a knucklehead who made a lot of bad decisions in his life. He said ultimate fighting saved his life and let him release his anger. Dana said he first saw Jorge at a local show in Boston and was one of the toughest guys he had seen. overall record: 13-5, 2-3 UFC record. First fight versus David Loiseau, second fight versus Lee Murray, third fight versus Rich Franklin, fourth fight versus Dennis Hallman, fifth fight versus Chris Leben. Rivera says that Leben got lucky. Rivera says that he knows he can beat Rich Franklin.
Elimination fight (Middleweights): Jorge Rivera vs. Patrick Cote
Herb Dean is the referee.
Round 1. Rivera went for the clinch on stand-up and takedown, with Cote applying a half-guard (and moving to a full guard). Rivera stood up from it and tried to land strikes. With Rivera on top, Cote kept looking directly back to his cornermen. Rivera did some ground-and-pound, and Cote caught Rivera out of nowhere with a kick to the face, which allowed Cote to get on top of Rivera and start attacking. There was no need for commentary during this fight, as Matt Serra sounded as if he was doing commentary himself. This continued for the last two minutes of the first round. Afterwards, Rivera said an expletive to Cote. Serra was fired up.
Round 2. Rivera went for some left high-kicks, and Cote managed to get Rivera down on the ground (with his elbow on Jorge’s face). All Rivera could manage temporarily was a half-guard. Not much activity at all in this round. Rivera managed position and tried to apply a front neck lock, which Cote rolled and Rivera rolled right with him. Rivera tried to get the back of Cote. Cote reversed position and got Rivera on his back. Herb Dean stood both fighters up with 90 seconds to go. Cote started landing punches on stand-up, with Rivera reverting to a clinch and Cote trying to stomp on Rivera’s foot. Cote managed to get a takedown of Rivera. Round two ended with Cote on top. Cote celebrated after the round. Rivera was being consoled by Mikey Burnett.
Winner: Patrick Cote (by unanimous decision)
Instead of taking a commercial break or a delay between the end of the round and when the judges’ came to their decision, the editing on this show rushed right to the judges’ decision. Rivera was emotional after the fight. “I don’t fight to fight, I fight to put food on the table.”
Next week: Matt Hughes shows up at the training center, with a tease for Hughes getting under Serra’s skin. Next week, two fights (Welterweight and Middleweights) on the show.
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You goob, I totally said I would do this today, thhpppppttt.
What happened to Erin? I not too macho to admit I like hearing what the girl(s) had to say about the show.
Ha, I forgot to watch it instead of Survivor last night, and when I got up this morning, Zach had his reap up so I didn’t figure there was much point in me doing one. I may watch it tommorrow and put it up on my myspace.