The On Deck Circle

   On the last episode of The Ultimate Fighter we saw Frank Mir throw a bit of a temper tantrum anytime Ryan Bader had Eliot Marshall on the ground. Frank Mir actually echoed the remarks of Junie earlier in the season when Junie was upset about the wrestling match he felt Efrain had put on. Mir [...]

So here we are at the end of Season 8 of The Ultimate Fighter, and we have back-to-back episodes to say goodbye. We begin with Ryan Bader vs Eliot Marshall. The fight went all three rounds and is pretty simple to summarize: Bader took Eliot down and put him against the cage. Bader controlled Eliot [...]

Sorry for the delay, I’ve been sick this week and the quality of this article may reflect that. So this week the focus is on John’s love of hugs and Roop’s injured hand. The highlight is that we get a fantastic hug montage and a bit more depthin to John’s personality. John seems like a [...]

   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 [...]

   This week we get a great episode of The Ultimate Frat Boy. I don’t know why, perhaps because the producers don’t find Nog or Mir that interesting, but we don’t get to see much training this season.    The show focuses quite a bit this week on the prank war within the house, however [...]

So this week my ability to watch the Ultimate Fighter resulted in watching it without sound at times, and seeing the fight before the actual episode. We got a chance to see Mir’s team doing some intense cardio work with snorkels (Wanderlei style) to make up for Junie’s lack of gas in his fight. It [...]

   So this week was by far my favourite episode of the season thus far. There was very little in the way of house nonsense and shenanigans (some, but much less then previously).    Following their win from last week Frank Mir comes to celebrate at the house. While there he asks Delgado where he [...]

   Let’s get the end of last week’s episode out of the way quickly. Junie Browning (not Brown, my bad last week) jumps the cage, and nothing happens as a result. Dana says if the head of the NSAC had been there Junie would have been tossed and his license revoked. Seriously Dana? If it [...]

What can you say about the Ultimate Fighter this week other than it really didn’t help how the public will perceive the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. Junie Browning…what a maniac. Dana White had commented that this season would make Chris Leben look like a angel, and he was right. Junie starts by talking trash [...]