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Quick thought on new season of TUF (Mir/Nogueira)
By Zach Arnold | September 17, 2008
I’m liking this show so far. Frank Mir is, of course, a good talker. The whole weight-cutting storyline with Jason Guida was interesting TV to watch. He showed up at 217 pounds and tried to cut down to 206 pounds in a matter of a couple of hours?
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I think they had 24 hours from the time that they arrived to the time of the weigh-ins.
Also, how did the referee miss a blatant knee to the head by Houston Alexander when Eric Schafer was down on one knee, thus making the strike illegal? It happened right in front of the ref and it appeared to rock Schafer.
Why didn’t Jason shave his head?
Why was a fighter with one professional fight put in the cage against a fighter with over twenty professional fights? Replacement fighter or not, that is just wrong.
If Nogueira stays silent for the fights like he did during the Junie/ criminal fight, only the most skilled guys on his team will probably be advancing to the finals. Mir’s vocal encouragement/ direction during that fight reminds me of Matt Serra’s style and that worked wonders for Team Serra in season six (until the finals).
I’m curious which fighter is “the next Anderson Silva” that Dana keeps mentioning. The blogs predicted it was the guy that didn’t even make it into the house.
Of course, Dana is still a promoter first and foremost, so I’m only half-expecting one of these guys to look absolutely incredible. We’ll probably find out next week.
Hair has almost no weight. Cutting it would have decreaseed him by less then 1/16th of a
Pound.
I agree with Ivan. That illegal knee was blatantly obvious.
Average night of fights. I think Diaz is very talented but I just don’t enjoy watching his fighting style
The most important thing of the night was the UFC 91 Commercial. I like how they are already promoting this fight!
Yea, that commercial was dope…I was impressed with Diaz..he actually showed more to his game than just BJJ from his back.
I’m cautiously optimistic about the talent pool, but I’m waiting until I see more fights before I say anything. So far, so good though
Mir’s a riot. I and all my friends were surprised to find that Nogueira could speak intelligible English (Spike subtitles aside). Apparently enough of it to make a gentlemens’ agreement with Mir not to foot stomp š
The highlight of the night: on The Ultimate Fighter we heard the greatest promo in the history of MMA!
“Put me with Napoleon, dawg! Put me with Hitler, dawg! I’m from that era, pillaging and shit. In the DC time! Send me to the DC time, dawg!”
That was up there with the best from The Ultimate Warrior. Iām assuming by āDa DC timeā he meant BCā¦as in more than 2000 years ago? When Hitler was apparently pillaging? I think he might have skipped history class.
I was waiting for him to start talking about putting a triangle choke on a triceratops during the Civil War. It wouldnāt have been that much weirder.