"If Bruce Lee was alive today, what would you say to him?" This is the repeated question in all of the episodes. There have been some good answers and some so so answers. In Episode 5 UFC Fighter Matt Mitrione and The Ultimate Fighter Contestant Andy Main are interviewed. Andy has a pretty good answer. He states that he would ask him about his philosophies and what inspired him in the early days to pursue the creation of Jeet Kune Do. Matt answer is that he would not say a word to him. While on the surface this may seem to be an answer of awe and respect. To me it feels contrived. To have the opportunity to be face to face with Bruce Lee and not say a word. Ridiculous.
Again, it is your opportunity. If Bruce Lee was alive today, what would YOU say to him?
Enjoy the video!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Sharing "The Bruce Lee Story - As Told By You - Episode 4"
Episode 4 is out. Actually, it has been out for about a week. Only 4000 views on this one so far. Not a real high viewing count on all of these. I am actually surprised.
Interesting choice for interviewees on this one. Seth Kelly, UFC Magazine Editor and Chief, is selected to be interviewed. As well as, UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar. I am not sure of the selection process. You can tell from the videos that these are all done at MMA events. They seem to be done, ad hoc/on location. Considering Seth Kelly is not an MMA competitor or trainer it is a variance from the previous episodes. I wonder if they will try and interview and celebrities who are in attendance; there to see the fights. Considering Bruce Lee's connection to the world of film and entertainment, as well as martial arts it would make sense to me. I also wonder if they will get Dana White to sit down in front of the camera.
Interesting choice for interviewees on this one. Seth Kelly, UFC Magazine Editor and Chief, is selected to be interviewed. As well as, UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar. I am not sure of the selection process. You can tell from the videos that these are all done at MMA events. They seem to be done, ad hoc/on location. Considering Seth Kelly is not an MMA competitor or trainer it is a variance from the previous episodes. I wonder if they will try and interview and celebrities who are in attendance; there to see the fights. Considering Bruce Lee's connection to the world of film and entertainment, as well as martial arts it would make sense to me. I also wonder if they will get Dana White to sit down in front of the camera.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Sharing "The Bruce Lee Story - As Told By You - Episode 3"
Here is episode three of the weekly special on Bruce Lee.
It's interesting that they are speaking to MMA fighters. Bruce Lee's philosophy of fighting and training was ahead of the game in relation to the mixing of styles; or to better put it, a breaking down of styles. I would love if they would cut into scenes of Bruce Lee in action. Throw in scenes showing Bruce executing grappling moves. In the beginning of "Enter the Dragon" Bruce used submission techniques to win a sparring match. There must be more out there. This would be a great way of integrating the comments from today's MMA fighters with the evolving philosophy and techniques of Bruce Lee.
This webisode series is produced by Bruce Lee Enterprises, LLC and featured on www.collectbrucelee.com and YouTube.
It's interesting that they are speaking to MMA fighters. Bruce Lee's philosophy of fighting and training was ahead of the game in relation to the mixing of styles; or to better put it, a breaking down of styles. I would love if they would cut into scenes of Bruce Lee in action. Throw in scenes showing Bruce executing grappling moves. In the beginning of "Enter the Dragon" Bruce used submission techniques to win a sparring match. There must be more out there. This would be a great way of integrating the comments from today's MMA fighters with the evolving philosophy and techniques of Bruce Lee.
This webisode series is produced by Bruce Lee Enterprises, LLC and featured on www.collectbrucelee.com and YouTube.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Sharing "The Bruce Lee Story - As Told By You - Episode 2"
Here comes Episode 2 of "The Bruce Lee Story - As Told by You".
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Sharing "The Bruce Lee Story - As Told By You - Episode 1"
Here is a new web series that explores the legend "Bruce Lee". It is produced by Bruce Lee Enterprises, LLC and featured on www.collectbrucelee.com. You can also see it on YouTube.
Check out the video, and let me know what you think.
Are you excited to see Episode 2?
"If Bruce Lee was alive today, what would you say to him?"
I would say, "Teach me!". What would you say?
Check out the video, and let me know what you think.
Are you excited to see Episode 2?
"If Bruce Lee was alive today, what would you say to him?"
I would say, "Teach me!". What would you say?
Thursday, May 19, 2011
TUF 13, Episode 3, April 13th, 2011
No excuses this time. I've just been distracted. I have several episodes still in my DVR to watch. I better speed it up, though. At this rate I will have finished posting about this seasons episodes around the time that Season 14 starts. 
Actually, I am so far behind that one might ask, "Mike, why even continue?". Well the simple answer is I don't like to leave things unfinished. Better late than never I always say. So for posterities sake, here is my take on Episode 3 of The Ultimate Fighter, Season 13.
Fight Selection
Team Lesnar has control. Brock picks Len Bentley (Lesnar's first round pick) to fight Ryan McGillivray. An in episode interview with Junior dos Santos reveals Junior's belief that Len is the better wrestler, but Ryan is a better striker.
The Drama
The drama from Episode 2 was the departure of Keon Caldwell. Keon has now been replaced by Justin Edwards.
Episode 3's drama revolves around two issues with Team Lesnar, and one with Team dos Santos.
The first is with Brock himself. In my post on Episode 2 I mentioned Brock's comments, post fight, in their back room. This is where his chicken shit to chicken salad tirade was made. In the very beginning of Episode 3 Brock's team talk about how they were offended by being referred to as chicken shit. Brock hears about it from his assistant coaches and decides to meet with his team and explain. "Before you guys got on this show you were one in 2 million people. You were just another fighter. Just another 170 lb chicken shit, but now you guys are chicken salad. Alright? That's what I am trying to say here." Not sure that works for me. It takes some measure of guts to step inside the cage, and all of these guys have done that. But, okay. That's Brock's take on it.
The second drama is Chris Cope. Chris was the winner of the fight in Episode 2. He defeated, much to everyone's surprise, Javier Torres. Now Chris has been labeled the snitch. The double agent. The one you should be careful discussing tactics, because he is too friendly with fighters from the other team. Never mind that the fighters are all living together, and have to try and get along with each other. Always with the knowledge that when the competition gets down to the final fighters you will potentially have to fight, and defeat anyone, no matter what team they are from. Even if they have already been defeated, because injury or the psychological stress (quitters) could create opportunities for anyone to come back, and have a second chance. The main proponent of this is Len Bentley. As mentioned in the fight selection, Len has been picked by Brock Lesnar to fight Ryan McGillivray at the end of this episode. Len approaches Brock about his concerns, and that he doesn't want his game plan discussed where Chris can overhear. This is one situation where I feel Brock gave good advice. "All my opponents study my fights, etc... don't get caught up in that (gesturing to Chris, but clearly indicating the house drama and mind games). Your here for one reason only. To fight!" No actual subterfuge from Chris is discovered, but Len did review the final game plan the day before the fight with just the coaches. This is good common sense anyway. As I mentioned, anyone is a potential future opponent.
The drama with Team dos Santos actually rests on the shoulders of one of the assistant coaches. Lew Polley, who was brought in as a wrestling coach, decides that Junior and the other assistant coaches are being too easy on the team. Lew believes that a stronger coaching style is needed. He briefly discusses this with the team, and then once training starts he is yelling at the fighters. "Why are you on the cage? Your losing right now!" Not sure that I completely disagree, but his approach to the change was so abrupt. The team members were looking at him like he's Jekyll and Hyde. Also, the heightened intensity immediately causes injuries. Shamar gets a bad cut over his eye during training. Lew tells him to get taped up and be ready to come back. Luckily Shamar has had his first fight, so he has some time to heal before the next one, but a recent cut over his eye could reopen. Not good. Junior is not happy with his style, and trying to take over the head coach responsibilities. Junior takes the coaches aside and calmly explains that he does not approve. Lew is a wrestling coach. Focus on that. Junior will decide how the overall coaching will be handled.
Pre-Fight Suspense
Ryan is weighing in at about 180 lbs a couple days before the official weigh in, so he will need to cut 9 lbs in a day. Cutting weight is common, but it can be a factor in your fight conditioning. If cutting the weight taxes your body to much, you can get gassed if the fight goes the distance. Will this be a factor? Let's see!
Round 1
No touching of gloves as the fighters meet in the cage. Both fighters come out throwing heat. About 25 seconds in Len connects with two hard jabs and drops Ryan. Ryan is on his back, but not out. Len goes in for the finish. He tries to work his ground and pound, and Ryan defends. With 4 minutes 18 seconds left of the round Len gets a full mount. Len again tries to work his ground and pound, but Ryan keeps his head. Ryan shrimps to his side and is able to work into half guard. Len throws several short elbows. Ryan defends as best he can, and works his way into full guard. With 2 minutes 56 seconds left Ryan is able to get back to his feet. Ryan gets a good front hook strike in. Then a good right cross connects. Another front hook and Ryan drops Len. Ryan goes in for the kill, but Len defends and gets Ryan into full guard. Ryan connects several body shots while in Lens guard. Now with 1 minute 20 seconds left Len rolls and gets Ryan in a possible armbar. Ryan does a good job of defending, but then with 54 seconds left Len gets the armbar in really tight. Ryan's arm is slightly hyper-extended, but he does not tap out and successfully fights it off and gets free. Ryan then attempts a guillotine with a possible, if he rolled, anaconda choke. Len fights it and lasts the final seconds of the round.
Round 2
Round 2 starts with Ryan connecting right away with a quick jab. Then a glancing cross. A couple more jabs, with one really connecting hard. Then Len starts coming back Len throws a low rear round kick to Ryan's inside leg. Then a front round to the body. Len then connects with a strong jab. He then attempts a spinning back fist, but misses. There are several strong exchanges with neither fighter getting the upper hand. Len throws a wild front hook. Then Ryan starts throwing heavy hands and backs Len into the cage. They clinch and Len goes for a guillotine. No good. Ryan goes for the double to sweep out both of Len's legs and take it to the ground. He almost gets there, but no good. They clinch again and Len starts throwing knees. No damage given. The cage side ten second warning goes off and Ryan goes wild with a flurry of strikes all connecting. End of round.
The judges score cards get tallied and Ryan is the winner. Ryan takes out Team Lesnar's first pick and regains control of the fights for Team dos Santos.
This was a great fight. Both fighters represented themselves well. At the end of the episode Dana makes a point to meet with Len and give him props for a great fight.
Did you see the fight? What did you think? What was your take on the drama?
Actually, I am so far behind that one might ask, "Mike, why even continue?". Well the simple answer is I don't like to leave things unfinished. Better late than never I always say. So for posterities sake, here is my take on Episode 3 of The Ultimate Fighter, Season 13.Fight Selection
Team Lesnar has control. Brock picks Len Bentley (Lesnar's first round pick) to fight Ryan McGillivray. An in episode interview with Junior dos Santos reveals Junior's belief that Len is the better wrestler, but Ryan is a better striker.
The Drama
The drama from Episode 2 was the departure of Keon Caldwell. Keon has now been replaced by Justin Edwards.
Episode 3's drama revolves around two issues with Team Lesnar, and one with Team dos Santos.
The first is with Brock himself. In my post on Episode 2 I mentioned Brock's comments, post fight, in their back room. This is where his chicken shit to chicken salad tirade was made. In the very beginning of Episode 3 Brock's team talk about how they were offended by being referred to as chicken shit. Brock hears about it from his assistant coaches and decides to meet with his team and explain. "Before you guys got on this show you were one in 2 million people. You were just another fighter. Just another 170 lb chicken shit, but now you guys are chicken salad. Alright? That's what I am trying to say here." Not sure that works for me. It takes some measure of guts to step inside the cage, and all of these guys have done that. But, okay. That's Brock's take on it.
The second drama is Chris Cope. Chris was the winner of the fight in Episode 2. He defeated, much to everyone's surprise, Javier Torres. Now Chris has been labeled the snitch. The double agent. The one you should be careful discussing tactics, because he is too friendly with fighters from the other team. Never mind that the fighters are all living together, and have to try and get along with each other. Always with the knowledge that when the competition gets down to the final fighters you will potentially have to fight, and defeat anyone, no matter what team they are from. Even if they have already been defeated, because injury or the psychological stress (quitters) could create opportunities for anyone to come back, and have a second chance. The main proponent of this is Len Bentley. As mentioned in the fight selection, Len has been picked by Brock Lesnar to fight Ryan McGillivray at the end of this episode. Len approaches Brock about his concerns, and that he doesn't want his game plan discussed where Chris can overhear. This is one situation where I feel Brock gave good advice. "All my opponents study my fights, etc... don't get caught up in that (gesturing to Chris, but clearly indicating the house drama and mind games). Your here for one reason only. To fight!" No actual subterfuge from Chris is discovered, but Len did review the final game plan the day before the fight with just the coaches. This is good common sense anyway. As I mentioned, anyone is a potential future opponent.
The drama with Team dos Santos actually rests on the shoulders of one of the assistant coaches. Lew Polley, who was brought in as a wrestling coach, decides that Junior and the other assistant coaches are being too easy on the team. Lew believes that a stronger coaching style is needed. He briefly discusses this with the team, and then once training starts he is yelling at the fighters. "Why are you on the cage? Your losing right now!" Not sure that I completely disagree, but his approach to the change was so abrupt. The team members were looking at him like he's Jekyll and Hyde. Also, the heightened intensity immediately causes injuries. Shamar gets a bad cut over his eye during training. Lew tells him to get taped up and be ready to come back. Luckily Shamar has had his first fight, so he has some time to heal before the next one, but a recent cut over his eye could reopen. Not good. Junior is not happy with his style, and trying to take over the head coach responsibilities. Junior takes the coaches aside and calmly explains that he does not approve. Lew is a wrestling coach. Focus on that. Junior will decide how the overall coaching will be handled.
Pre-Fight Suspense
Ryan is weighing in at about 180 lbs a couple days before the official weigh in, so he will need to cut 9 lbs in a day. Cutting weight is common, but it can be a factor in your fight conditioning. If cutting the weight taxes your body to much, you can get gassed if the fight goes the distance. Will this be a factor? Let's see!
Round 1
No touching of gloves as the fighters meet in the cage. Both fighters come out throwing heat. About 25 seconds in Len connects with two hard jabs and drops Ryan. Ryan is on his back, but not out. Len goes in for the finish. He tries to work his ground and pound, and Ryan defends. With 4 minutes 18 seconds left of the round Len gets a full mount. Len again tries to work his ground and pound, but Ryan keeps his head. Ryan shrimps to his side and is able to work into half guard. Len throws several short elbows. Ryan defends as best he can, and works his way into full guard. With 2 minutes 56 seconds left Ryan is able to get back to his feet. Ryan gets a good front hook strike in. Then a good right cross connects. Another front hook and Ryan drops Len. Ryan goes in for the kill, but Len defends and gets Ryan into full guard. Ryan connects several body shots while in Lens guard. Now with 1 minute 20 seconds left Len rolls and gets Ryan in a possible armbar. Ryan does a good job of defending, but then with 54 seconds left Len gets the armbar in really tight. Ryan's arm is slightly hyper-extended, but he does not tap out and successfully fights it off and gets free. Ryan then attempts a guillotine with a possible, if he rolled, anaconda choke. Len fights it and lasts the final seconds of the round.
Round 2
Round 2 starts with Ryan connecting right away with a quick jab. Then a glancing cross. A couple more jabs, with one really connecting hard. Then Len starts coming back Len throws a low rear round kick to Ryan's inside leg. Then a front round to the body. Len then connects with a strong jab. He then attempts a spinning back fist, but misses. There are several strong exchanges with neither fighter getting the upper hand. Len throws a wild front hook. Then Ryan starts throwing heavy hands and backs Len into the cage. They clinch and Len goes for a guillotine. No good. Ryan goes for the double to sweep out both of Len's legs and take it to the ground. He almost gets there, but no good. They clinch again and Len starts throwing knees. No damage given. The cage side ten second warning goes off and Ryan goes wild with a flurry of strikes all connecting. End of round.
The judges score cards get tallied and Ryan is the winner. Ryan takes out Team Lesnar's first pick and regains control of the fights for Team dos Santos.
This was a great fight. Both fighters represented themselves well. At the end of the episode Dana makes a point to meet with Len and give him props for a great fight.
Did you see the fight? What did you think? What was your take on the drama?
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
TUF 13, Episode 2, April 6th, 2011
Okay, this one is a long time coming.
Please accept my apologies. My daytime paying job and tax time capitalized on all my extra time, and delayed new content. Now that the excuses are out, here comes the post that has been delayed for three weeks.
The Drama
Episode Two's drama was dominated by Keon Caldwell. Keon is visibly distracted during training, ostensibly due to missing his family, specifically his six year old daughter. Coach dos Santos is pushing his team to train as hard as possible, but Keon lags behind the rest. Talking to his coaches Keon admits that he misses his daughter and doesn't know if he can stay. He wants to go home. Now watching this I had to ask myself the question. Is this really about missing his daughter, or is this an easy out, because now, in The Ultimate Fighter, Keon's own self doubts sabotage his training?
Really, I understand that he would miss his daughter. I have a six year old son, and being separated from him would be difficult. Life is difficult. GET OVER IT! If this is what you want to do, then what example do you set for your daughter by quitting while at the beginning of the greatest opportunity a professional mixed martial artist can get?
Queue Dana White. Dana comes to the gym to talk to Keon. Dana takes him aside and gets right to the point.
"Do you want to be a professional fighter?"
"Oh yeah", Keon answers.
"Do you want to do this?"
"Yes sir."
"Do you want to win this f-bleep-ing thing"
"Yes sir."
"Do you want to be in the UFC?"
"Yes sir."
"Do you want to be a world champion some day"
"Yes sir."
"Focus on why you came here..."
Basically suck it up. Then the very next day at practice. Coincidentally enough after a hard training session with one of the assistant coaches. Keon approaches Junior dos Santos and tells him he has made his decision and wants to go back to his family. As I have mentioned, I have a six year old, as well, but this is six weeks out of your life. Six weeks to make a name for yourself. At the very least to show Dana you won't back down. Keon has an MMA record of 8-1, but now all that Dana will remember is he didn't have the conviction to see it through. Chance of a lifetime blown. Mark my words. We won't be seeing Keon Caldwell in the UFC.
What do you think? Do you think Keon took the easy way out?
The Fight
Javier Torres (Team dos Santos) vs Chris Cope (Team Lesnar)
Team dos Santos has control, so this pick is theirs. They are very confident. Even commenting that during the fight announcement, when the fighters faced off for photographs, that Chris was visibly shaking. He was.
During interviews with the fighters and coaches Shamar Bailey comments, "I'm excited to see Javier fight. I think he is going to run through Chris."
From Junior dos Santos, "In my mind he is going to beat the guy easy."
Brock Lesnar doesn't like Chris' chances either. He even gives Chris and team the Any Given Sunday speech.
To be fair Chris is not a full time fighter. He has a full time job in mainstream America. A nice bit of encouragement comes in the form of a letter Chris' girlfriend sent with him. In the letter she tells him that this is his destiny.
Javier is very confident. He has a lot riding on this. He immigrated from Mexico to be a fighter. To top it all off his wife is pregnant, as well - you don't see him running home.
While in the first fight the safe pick from Team dos Santos pays off. This time it backfires.
Round 1 - Javier pushes Chris up against the cage - this is an area that a team member of Javier's, who knows Chris, said Chris was uncomfortable, but Chris gets in some good strikes. Javier then takes Chris to the ground with a Judo throw, but Chris gets right back up. Javier goes for several foot stomps. No real damage. They go back and forth for most of the round. Then in the last thirty seconds Javier lands a good knee strike to Chris' cheek and opens up a cut below the eye. No danger, as it will not affect Chris' ability to see.
Remember, Javier is supposed to run right through Chris.
Round 2 - Chris starts with a good high kick. We see a lot of clinch fighting for the majority of this round. Both fighters throw some knees to the body. No real damage from either fighter.
Round 3 - In the preliminary fights of The Ultimate Fighter, they will only go two five minute rounds, and if there is no definitive winner at the end of round two, then they go to a third round.
In the third round Javier is tired. He is breathing heavy. Looking for excuses to rest.
Chris simply has better conditioning. He is fired up and he survived the first two rounds. He has better kicks, as well, throwing really hard kicks to the inside of Javier's thigh. Throwing some more high kicks. Controlling the clinch, muscling Javier, throwing knees upper-cuts and elbows.
At the end Chris wins by decision.
What bothers me is at the end of the episode, when Team Lesnar is back in their locker room, Brock makes a point to say "Chicken salad out of chicken shit. That's what we are we chicken shit. We make do with what we got. Any given Sunday. Any given Sunday, anybody can win" A quick camera shot to Chris Cope, and I could see in his eyes, why do I have to be chicken shit. At this point why wouldn't Brock make a point of giving Chris some credit. Admit Chris surprised them all. Congratulate him and bring him up.
Transition to montage interview with Brock, "There wasn't nothing pretty or cool about Chris' win. He just showed perseverance and heart and I was wowed by that". Okay, so you were wowed, but again Brock just dogged the guy, maybe unintentionally or subconsciously, but I have not been impressed by Brock as a coach, yet. We'll see what future episodes reveal.
Please accept my apologies. My daytime paying job and tax time capitalized on all my extra time, and delayed new content. Now that the excuses are out, here comes the post that has been delayed for three weeks.
The Drama
Episode Two's drama was dominated by Keon Caldwell. Keon is visibly distracted during training, ostensibly due to missing his family, specifically his six year old daughter. Coach dos Santos is pushing his team to train as hard as possible, but Keon lags behind the rest. Talking to his coaches Keon admits that he misses his daughter and doesn't know if he can stay. He wants to go home. Now watching this I had to ask myself the question. Is this really about missing his daughter, or is this an easy out, because now, in The Ultimate Fighter, Keon's own self doubts sabotage his training?
Really, I understand that he would miss his daughter. I have a six year old son, and being separated from him would be difficult. Life is difficult. GET OVER IT! If this is what you want to do, then what example do you set for your daughter by quitting while at the beginning of the greatest opportunity a professional mixed martial artist can get?
Queue Dana White. Dana comes to the gym to talk to Keon. Dana takes him aside and gets right to the point.
"Do you want to be a professional fighter?"
"Oh yeah", Keon answers.
"Do you want to do this?"
"Yes sir."
"Do you want to win this f-bleep-ing thing"
"Yes sir."
"Do you want to be in the UFC?"
"Yes sir."
"Do you want to be a world champion some day"
"Yes sir."
"Focus on why you came here..."
Basically suck it up. Then the very next day at practice. Coincidentally enough after a hard training session with one of the assistant coaches. Keon approaches Junior dos Santos and tells him he has made his decision and wants to go back to his family. As I have mentioned, I have a six year old, as well, but this is six weeks out of your life. Six weeks to make a name for yourself. At the very least to show Dana you won't back down. Keon has an MMA record of 8-1, but now all that Dana will remember is he didn't have the conviction to see it through. Chance of a lifetime blown. Mark my words. We won't be seeing Keon Caldwell in the UFC.
What do you think? Do you think Keon took the easy way out?
The Fight
Javier Torres (Team dos Santos) vs Chris Cope (Team Lesnar)
Team dos Santos has control, so this pick is theirs. They are very confident. Even commenting that during the fight announcement, when the fighters faced off for photographs, that Chris was visibly shaking. He was.
During interviews with the fighters and coaches Shamar Bailey comments, "I'm excited to see Javier fight. I think he is going to run through Chris."
From Junior dos Santos, "In my mind he is going to beat the guy easy."
Brock Lesnar doesn't like Chris' chances either. He even gives Chris and team the Any Given Sunday speech.
To be fair Chris is not a full time fighter. He has a full time job in mainstream America. A nice bit of encouragement comes in the form of a letter Chris' girlfriend sent with him. In the letter she tells him that this is his destiny.
Javier is very confident. He has a lot riding on this. He immigrated from Mexico to be a fighter. To top it all off his wife is pregnant, as well - you don't see him running home.
While in the first fight the safe pick from Team dos Santos pays off. This time it backfires.
Round 1 - Javier pushes Chris up against the cage - this is an area that a team member of Javier's, who knows Chris, said Chris was uncomfortable, but Chris gets in some good strikes. Javier then takes Chris to the ground with a Judo throw, but Chris gets right back up. Javier goes for several foot stomps. No real damage. They go back and forth for most of the round. Then in the last thirty seconds Javier lands a good knee strike to Chris' cheek and opens up a cut below the eye. No danger, as it will not affect Chris' ability to see.
Remember, Javier is supposed to run right through Chris.
Round 2 - Chris starts with a good high kick. We see a lot of clinch fighting for the majority of this round. Both fighters throw some knees to the body. No real damage from either fighter.
Round 3 - In the preliminary fights of The Ultimate Fighter, they will only go two five minute rounds, and if there is no definitive winner at the end of round two, then they go to a third round.
In the third round Javier is tired. He is breathing heavy. Looking for excuses to rest.
Chris simply has better conditioning. He is fired up and he survived the first two rounds. He has better kicks, as well, throwing really hard kicks to the inside of Javier's thigh. Throwing some more high kicks. Controlling the clinch, muscling Javier, throwing knees upper-cuts and elbows.
At the end Chris wins by decision.
What bothers me is at the end of the episode, when Team Lesnar is back in their locker room, Brock makes a point to say "Chicken salad out of chicken shit. That's what we are we chicken shit. We make do with what we got. Any given Sunday. Any given Sunday, anybody can win" A quick camera shot to Chris Cope, and I could see in his eyes, why do I have to be chicken shit. At this point why wouldn't Brock make a point of giving Chris some credit. Admit Chris surprised them all. Congratulate him and bring him up.
Transition to montage interview with Brock, "There wasn't nothing pretty or cool about Chris' win. He just showed perseverance and heart and I was wowed by that". Okay, so you were wowed, but again Brock just dogged the guy, maybe unintentionally or subconsciously, but I have not been impressed by Brock as a coach, yet. We'll see what future episodes reveal.
What do you think? Does Brock have what it takes to be a great coach?
Stay tuned. Daily posts will be coming as I get caught up with this season of TUF 13.
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