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The Ultimate Fighter Season 5, Episode 5
By Erin | May 3, 2007
This is not a PG-13 post for language. OK, you’ve been warned.
Recap of Andy paying no attention what-so-ever to his corner.
BJ is less than pleased with his team and their losing ways. Especially Noah and his less than seriousness in training. Assistant Coach Tony has an impromptu grappling match with Noah, who doesn’t seem too pleased with this plan.
Team Penn thinks that Gabe is getting called next and with his weight at 176 lbs, he’s a bit worried. He then has a big ass piece of cake at the house.
Good grief we’re getting the fight announcement already, with Pulver playing Faux-Dana again. Either this is going to be one long ass fight, or we get to spend oodles of time with Gabe trying to cut weight. Yea Zombie!Gabe.
After a suitably dramatic pause Cory announces that he’s fighting Gabe, who busts out with a table to stand on.
Team BJ is not so much on the “Gabe takes a nap†strategy for him to lose weight. Noah says that the guys are prepared to lock Gabe in the sauna until he loses weights.
18 hours away from the weigh in, Gabe is at 173. 2 hours later he’s lost about 5 lbs. Geez, I can’t even lose 5 lbs in 2 months. Then again I don’t pay attention to what I eat and I hate being dehydrated. The next morning he’s at 163. I officially hate him.
Roommate Jen thinks that marinating in your own sweat is gross. I can’t say that I disagree.
Gabe has issues staying in the sauna. Look guys, you are in Nevada. Just buy the man a hooker, toss her in the sauna with him and the time and weight will fly by. Ain’t no man running away from a blow-job. We are now at 1:30 until the weigh in. Gabe is pretty much at the “Fuck You†stage. And apparently at the passed out naked stage. Alrighty then.
Corey is loving the world and Jens tells his team to go back to the house.
Gabe gets hauled off in an ambulance and everyone talks shit about him. Gabe comes back to the house and the guys give him a less than warm reception. Gabe apologizes to Cory for not making weight.
BJ thinks that this may have all been a scheme for Gabe to not fight. BJ wants to have someone takes Gabe’s place and Jens is hoping to just have Cory advance.
Roommate Jen: This is Dana’s Not Amused face.
Not surprisingly Dana kicks Gabe out of the house. He then gives the rest of the guys a pep talk and says that Emerson is back in the competition.
Fight picking, 2nd try. Brian is fighting Joe and Cory is fighting Emerson. I’m assuming that due to a lack of fights this episode, we get two next week.
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I still wonder how much of Gabe’s antics were done in collaboration with Dana. Gabe did an interview tonight on taggradio.com. It was interesting because Gabe says that he still has a contract and will be back in the UFC for his next fight. Trigg, who was interviewing Gabe, thought Gabe ruined his career tonight, but Gabe seemed to believe he advanced it, with people now wanting to see him get beat. Heel heat I think they call it.
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I think it is extremely likely that win or lose, one of the stipulations for being on TUF is a contract with the UFC, with an option being held by the UFC to terminate at any time without cause (unlike a standard contract).
The last thing the UFC probably wants is for a fighter to get popular on the show and lose, thereby making him a free agent available to sign with a competing promotion. Gabe is no doubt on one of these contracts or still on his previous contract.
Either way, it behooves Zuffa to wait and see what kind of reaction they get from the fans for Gabe’s ridiculous antics before they decide to terminate his contract.