(Look, we’re just as upset as you are. Photo courtesy of URDirt.)
It wasn’t long ago that Dana White was telling us that The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights was "some of the best television ever." (Ever! Right up there with the Newhart finale!) But after three weeks, reality is beginning to set in. What we’ve gotten, above everything else, is three embarassingly bad fights: Jon Madsen‘s one-sided takedown clinic against the hapless Abe Wagner, James McSweeney‘s sloppy and questionably deserved decision win over Wes "Wheezy" Shivers, and Roy Nelson‘s methodical, anti-climactic TKO of Kimbo Slice. It’s a shame that all those new viewers haven’t seen any quality MMA matches so far. Well, Dana feels your pain, and recently jumped on the Real Talk Express with Yahoo!’s Kevin Iole:
Wait a minute, so the next four episodes suck too? Does this mean that when <SPOILERS>Kimbo replaces a feverish Marcus Jones in the next episode to take on Brendan Schaub</SPOILERS>, that fight’s no good either? Cripes. It doesn’t help that this season — like last season — isn’t offering much in the way of entertaining personalities or house drama. (Why The A-Hole Show hasn’t gotten any screen time yet is anybody’s guess.) Marcus is a black dude who loves flowers and 20-sided-dice? Oooooooh! Piss in a fucking fruit tray or stop wasting my time, okay?
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commentsThe fights so far started out pathetic. Abe "turtle on his back" wagner. The gasfest fight two, where a strong breeze might have toppled both fighters, and the judges obviously didnt watch round one. Then, in fight three, we get to see big oily beard black jesus crucified. Oh TUF, what happened to thee?
Yeah, there's a lot of crap in there do you know why? Because you watch it for MMA and there's a maximum of 15 minutes of that in a show, generally less than 10. I'd love it if every episode was like the first two episodes of the last few seasons which was pretty much nothing but fights, but it's not going to happen. TUF is like a porn film with too much dialog; I'm not interested in anyone developing their characters and badly acted exposition. I just want to crack one off during the action...
Wait. That doesn't sound right.
"But will Kimbo ever be at rest ....? " Its certainly looking that way !
BTW Shave the goatee Abbott !
*rolls a d20*
...indifferent.
What is keeping this show from reaching its potential? "Titties" Schoover.
Dana just told us all that he'll be fighting on week 8.
Btw those were pretty weak spoiler warnings.. by the time you read the words "spoilers" you've already seen what's inbetween.. but as long as I don't know the outcome of the fights I'm satisfied.
i think Dana is mixing up his fans with his sex life.
WTF
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