UK PRELIMS:
1) Gary Kelly/Andre Winner: Clinch, Winner overpowers Kelly with strikes, takes him out inside 2 minutes. Kelly completely overmatched.
2) Jeff Lawson/James Bryan: Lawson with judo throw, GNP, pass to half guard/side control, eventually transitions to armbar. No challenge.
3) Che Mills/James Wilks: Mills drops Wilks with punches, but gets his leg caught in a heel hook. Mills was favored to win the whole show!
4) Martin Stapelton/Dan James: Stapleton is better standing than James and on the mat. Mount, GNP, James gives the back, and its RNC time.
5) AJ Wenn/Ross Pearson: Clinch early, Pearson with the takedown, but Wenn gets back to his feet. He throws some knees in the clinch, but gets slammed back down. Wenn is good at getting up though. And then being slammed again. Pearson is just flat out stronger. Wenn is hurt by a knee to the body at the end of the round. Second round starts with a 1-2 from Pearson and Wenn drops. He's pounded out.
6)Tommy Maguire/Nick Osipczak: Maguire with the takedown, pass to half guard, and Osipczak is out the back door. Maguire goes for the guillotine and pulls guard, but Nick is out and throwing elbows. He stands out of the guard, and then proceeds to pick apart Maguire standing with good boxing. Actually my favorite performance.
7) Alex Reid/Dean Amasinger: All three rounds are not shown, but Amasinger gets a decision.
8) James Bateman/David Faulkner: Bateman with an early takedown, but Falkner is back up quickly and is throwing knees. He shoots for a single and is successful with th takedown. He throws some punches, forces Bateman to try and shift out and ends up grabbing a leg for a submission.
US PRELIMS:
9) Mark Miller/Kevin Knabjian: Miller has better hands, Knabjian is off balance the entire time. Maybe that is what they call "unorthodox striking" now? He's bleeding from the mouth too. Second round Knabjian throws a right hand that drops Miller and follows him down, then goes for a leglock. Miller escapes and starts throwing wildly. Its effective though, because Knabjian is terrible, and he lands an uppercut that stuns his opponent and leads to a wild flurry and stoppage.
10) Richie Whitson/Paul Bird: No idea who these dudes are. Richie is hella redheaded. Bird grabs the takedown, Whitson gives the back, but escapes, throws a release german, Bird returns with a head kick, and ITS ON. Bird is cut, panicking, and getting tired. He can't get the takedown midway through the first, and Whitson is in the drivers seat. Bird tries an armbar in desperation, and eats nothing but shots as a result. Whitson wins by rear naked.
11) Waylon Rowe/Santino DeFranco: DeFranco had a brain injury that kept him off TUF 2. Usually, brain injuries mean you don't get a license for boxing, but Nevada feels different about MMA, it seems. Rowe with a takedown, lots of shots, and DeFranco is lucky for once that its Mazzagatti allowing him to get bombed on. This is because the entire final 3 minutes is him defenselessly taking shots. He lands a desperation knee on a shooting Rowe at the start of the second, hurts him, takes the back and gets a rear naked choke.
12) Steve Berger/Jason Pierce: Berger is a well known journeyman. He is also terrible.
We only see clips, and Pierce wins after apparently being dominated by the clips. Huh?
13) Cameron Dollar/Tom Hayden: Dollar is indicative of every hypermacho douche that participates in this sport. He wins with a rear naked choke after getting his ass beat for a round and a half.
14) Damarques Johnson/Ray Elbe: Ray Elbe and Johnson are respected journeymen. That is as much as can be said. Johnson gets a takedown after some uncomfortable standup, eventually stops it with strikes from that position.
EPISODE 3:
15) Kiel Reid/Frank Lester: Lester is dropped early with a right hook, gets pinned against the cage in half guard. He is nearly caught in a guillotine and fights out to his feet. Reid tries to slam Lester and Lester holds the arm and...oops, Reid knocked himself out. Frank Lester, ladies and gentlemen.
16) Jason Dent/Rob Browning: When I heard Jason Dent was on this show, I knew he would A) succeed B) discredit it by being there. I was right about both. Browning expends a lot of energy early because he is a testosterone driven imbecile and eats an uppercut shooting. He turtles up and takes way too many punches. He does tell Dana he'll be ready at 135. Scintillating.
EPISODE 4:
17) Nick Osipczak/Mark Miller: Sloppy show from both with Miller gassed after 5 minutes. Osipczak switches stances a lot and gets caught early in the fight, but Miller isn't able to repeat it again when it counts. It looks like Miller even taps in the first to a guillotine. Doesn't matter: His face meets Osipczak's shin and he's asleep in the second.
EPISODE 5:
18) Andre Winner/Santino DeFranco: Lots of low kicks. DeFranco's shots are stuffed, Winner throws the jab, even if its the cardinal mistake of one at a time. DeFranco finally pulls guard, Winner defends the armbar, and he hurts DeFranco with a single right hand. You think a dude who's brain needed surgery might have some chin issues? At least they gave Barrera a steel plate.
19) Demarcus Johnson/Dean Amasinger: Amasinger knows he is overmatched, but throws the low kick anyhow. Johnson returns. Amasinger with a bad takedown attempt, Johnson with an epically slow triangle attempt that elicits memories of the second season's heavyweights, and we have a winner.
EPISODE 6:
20) Martin Stapleton/Cameron Dollar: Bad standup by dudes who can't stand, Dollar with a takedown, back control, a body triangle, and a rear naked.
21) James Wilks/Frank Lester: Wilks gets a easy fight after beating Mills. Lester just runs the whole time, but drops Wilks with a left hook. Wilks goes for the leg and that forces Lester back on the defensive. Lester immediately with a takedown after escaping; another leg lock attempt (this one sloppier) also fails by Wilks. Lester then thinks he might have a submission game, but he doesn't. No shock there. Trading! Lester is winning! Wilks pushes him to the cage and then down on the mat. Lester loses teeth. I guess there was a bet about this or something. Wilks is much more intelligent in the second, using the jab to set distance and eventually clinches to put Lester onto the back foot again. Some dirty boxing sets up a takedown, but he lets Lester up. He throws him down again a short time later, goes to mount, and armbars the poor guy.
EPISODE 7:
22) Ross Pearson/Ritchie Whitson: Clinch early on, and Whitson holds his own. Key moment of the fight is a knee to the head on the mat that cuts Whitson: he never really recovers after restarting, and gets taken down and choked out.
EPISODE 8:
23) Jason Dent/Jeff Lawson: Maybe the two best lightweights in the house? How sad. Tenative standup leads to Lawson jumping in, giving the back and rolling for a kneebar. Dent escapes but its basically a sweep with Lawson on top. Dent keeps the guard closed looking to stand. The ref doesn't help: Lawson does just enough, passes to mount (and gets put back in full guard), landing shots here and there. He's tired by the end of the first.
Dent comes forward in round two, and Lawson shoots. He's way slow now though, and Dent is shrugging them off. Dent gets clipped with a few bad low kicks, catches Lawson coming in, and wins with a head and arm choke. Sad.
EPISODE 9:
24) Frank Lester/David Faulkner: Lester is back after someone dropped out. I forget who and don't care. Its slow to start with jabs and low kicks. Then there is trading and trading and more trading and its KOTC level at best. Faulkner eventually loses because he gasses and won't get up for the third. Lester is all beaten up and looks like shit but gets to move on and lose again.
EPISODE 10:
25) Nick Osipczak/Damarques Johnson: The winner for "fight that happened way too early in a guy's career" award for this season. Osipczak was ready to drop after the first round. He showed nothing but heart against a more experienced fighter who looked like he had a modicum of talent, being beaten up the entire last 2 rounds on the mat and standing. The corner should have stopped it. No reason to do this to a kid.
EPISODE 11:
26) Cameron Dollar/Andre Winner: Dollar is swinging early and getting countered huge. He shoots and Winner has none of it. Ends up getting tapped from a topside triangle. Yikes.
27) Jason Dent/Ross Pearson: Pearson is bigger and faster, better standing too. Dent does make a good punching bag and ends up doing so repeatedly in the round. He'll make his comebacks here and there but not much beyond that. Good pace to the fight too. Dent lands but can't hurt Pearson; big problem. Pearson then is able to do what he wants throughout the fight; takedowns, dominating the standup, forcing forwards, taking dominant position, so on, so forth. He wins every round en route to a unanimous decision.
EPISODE 12:
28) James Wilks/Frank Lester: Wilks has to fight Lester AGAIN. Oh jeez. Wilks is more methodical this time around and Lester isn't exactly rushing to engage either. Lester is looking to time Wilks and has pockets of success. His best weapon is the left hook and it happens to be the only thing he throws the whole round. Wilks is circling the right way now away from the hook of Lester and it starts to get ugly as the second progresses. Knees, punches, dirty boxing, eventually Lester drops in the third and the ref stops it.
Fight of the Season: Dent/Pearson
KO Of the Season: Osipczak/Miller
Submission of the Season: Winner/Dollar
Overall: No score. Easily the worst season of Ultimate Fighter yet, right up there with Season 6.
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