re: TUF: Season 9 thread...

JC is a 145er... no room in TUF house for 145ers.

of all the guys from LA who made it in the house, Kenny Stevens was by far the guy that everyone thought would be a star. He played it dumb though, and tried going in at 170 having never made that weight prior.

But everyone from around here, and MS and train with the guy, will tell you Kenny Stevens is a killer. NO ONE likes sparring with him. But the show kinds broke him. After that, he kinda went on a losing streak, just not showing up. His heart wasnt in it.

He broke UFC fighter Ben Saunders jaw, and dominated 2 rounds of the fight before somehow getting TKOd from strikes in the third. Ben was completely whipped, and could barely stay up. But mustered a final attack and somhow finished Kenny.

He also hurt UFC fighter Rob Kimmons numerous times, but never turned it on and went for the kill. And eventually let Rob back in the fight, where he eaked out a close decision.

Here lately he has come back around, and starting acting like the Kenny of old. The guy who earned the nickname SO TOUGH. Ive always said he is my favorite fighter. And he will be in my corner May 23rd in Vegas

The dream card from friday was actually a week old and very worth the watch. Strikeforce from last night was pretty good too. Diaz mangled shamrock and scott smith won a fight where he was completely destroyed before he knocked benji out.

eta: nick diaz actually sounded like a decent person after the fight. maybe opening his own school has calmed him a litlle.

Man, Dan Henderson can not catch a break. That kid who knocked himself out last night was obviously the better fighter of the 2. So now from watching the team elimination fights, there are at least 3 fighters on team USA who won and were the lesser fighter. I still think the USA will have a fighter in each final.

My predictions for the finals are: Johnson and Whitson for the USA and Faulkner and Lawson for the UK.

I'm working, can someone keep me update on what happens tonight?

Thanks

Mark Miller vs Nick Osipczak

Osipczak wins with a head kick with about 1 minute left in the 2nd round. Herb Dean had just stood them up. Fight was sloppy and very non-technical. Neither of these fighters were very good in my opinion.

The pre-fight stuff was pretty boring, team USA started drawing on team UK's left behind shirts and wrestling shoes. Bisping was still talking smack and pissing off team USA, especially Demarques Johnson.

That is about it.

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Yes. He was kind of tall and lanky. 6'2".

Mark Miller had lots of tats short black hair and beard.

yeah, the brit fought some scrub in England and destroyed him but i remember Henderson saying he didn't have much power. So going off what he remembered from the fights 2 weeks ago he picked that guy to fight stand up versus Miller (the guy who beat his teammate on the prelims). Then Bisping got to watch a video of Miller's prelim fight with his 2 asst coaches with paper and pad to take notes on his weaknesses.

Pretty sure Miller was the guy that wrestled at the same school as Matt Hughes but his takedown defense was terrible. But the fight was pretty exciting especially for a TUF fight.

I just watched it this morning.

That was an entertaining fight. That kick looked like it was in slo motion. That was the slowest moving KO kick I have ever seen. I guess when u have your hands down and you're gassed it probably looked lightning fast!

Brit: "Who wrot on my bowts?"

American: "What?"

Brit "Who wrot on my bowts?"

American "WHAT?!"

Brit "Who wrot on my bowts?"

American "I have no idea what you are saying."

Brit: "Who wrot on my boooots?"

Yeah I caught it on DVR. Been travelling to BR and back the last 3 days so I haven't been on here much.

Anywho, I agree with the earlier assessment that it was an entertaining fight but not at all technical. I don't think Nick O makes it out of the next round of the tourney.

From what I could tell from that one episode it seems that Bisping is going to be a pretty good coach for these guys. He appeared to do very well in preparing a viable gameplan for Nick even if he didn't follow it.

One thing I would like to see implemented on TUF is for them to mandate that both teams STFU during the fights. I would much rather clearly hear what both corners are saying that a bunch of random yelling. Gets pretty annoying.