Well, I must say, this week’s episode had me worried but became rather entertaining.
Following his loss Kaplan gets mighty sloshed and begins claiming he can’t be knocked out. He calls out just about everyone in the house with this claim. Eventually after begging drinking buddy Tom Lawlor to punch him, Kaplan is knocked out cold. He claims he wasn’t, but his legs went stiff, his eyes glazed over, and he was unaware of his surroundings. The cat was out cold.
The best part of the whole situation (Other than seeing Kaplan get knocked out) was Junie being stoked, because it made him seem a bit more normal.
This week’s pranks managed to avoid bodily fluids thankfully. Bader decides that since Kryz is fighting this week, he needs to be the focus. The red team moves a ton of things into Kryz’s room, after moving his bead into the closet.
Bas Jr sees this and enjoys it thoroughly, claiming he didn’t think they had it in them. Of course, he makes this prank look like child’s play by moving every plate, cup utensil, etc onto the basketball court in the middle of the night. It is quite obvious who is better with pranks.
In the coaches’ challenge, we learn that Big Nog is the worst soccer player in Brazil. But this doesn’t stop him from beating Mir and winning money for himself and his team. Mir’s insane logic following the event explains that since scored 6 goals on a guy from Brazil, he was 200x (his measurement) the athlete that Nog is. Maybe I just don’t get the advanced math Frank used to decide this, but I’ve never seen Big Nog look like Mir did against Dan Christison. Or if you need a pre-accident example, I don’t think he would be gassed in the second round against Wes Sims.
The fight itself wasn’t extremely competitive; Bas Jr was able to out strike Kyle standing, then pull guard and transition to an arm bar.
Nog is a big fan of Kyle though, and has offered to teach him the ground game when the show is over, since he came in with only 6 months of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training.
It was nice to see an appearance from Kryz’s Team Quest coach “Dangerous” Dan “Hendo” “Hollywood” Henderson in this episode.
Speaking of nicknames, really Nover? The Filipino Assassin? Do you know how many assassins there already are? Houston Alexander is “The Assassin”, Mikey Burnett is “The Eastside Assassin”, Sam Hogar is the “Alaskan Assassin”, Sokoudjou is “The African Assassin”, David Terrell is “The Soul Assassin”, Melvin Guillard is “The Young Assassin” and of course Josh Barnett is “The Babyface Assassin”. And those are just off of the top of my head. So please Phillipe, find a new nickname.
Huge fights this Saturday at UFC 91. After he dismantled Tim Sylvia I said I would never doubt Randy again and I will stand by that. I’ll admit in advance that I am biased and if I made a favourite fighter list, Randy would be at the top, but I still think he has the edge in this fight. The man is insane at creating strategies to exploit the weaknesses of his opponents. I think his experience and ever improving hands will play a big factor in this fight.
I’m a fan of Lesnar as well. He is a huge man and a challenge that has me a bit worried for Randy. I think he is the future of the division and will be a champion at some point, just not this Saturday.
Next week we see John the Hug Machine fight. If he wins with a rear naked choke (or a hug from behind I’ll call it) it will be the greatest thing ever.