(Rule #17 of the Fighter Fist Pose: Never rest your head on the shoulder of a chubby man in a floral-print shirt, as it will completely negate the fist-pose’s power. / Photo courtesy of the TUF 11 Finale: Afterparty pics gallery on CombatLifestyle.com.)
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Kendall’s 2 bits’ worth makes sense. If I wanted melodrama, I’d go to a family reunion or watch WWE. I liked the idea of “TUF” when it first came out and for about the first few seasons. Childish antics & douchebags get tired after a while, and when assholes get penalized, it’s like their punishments are about as solid as James Toney’s midsection. Jesse Taylor, Junie Browning, and other fuckwits got penalized and yet they’ve all fought for Zuffa for a while. The candidate screening process for “TUF” isn’t worth two squirts of piss in a bucket. Christ – if a rank amateur like Corey Hill can bullshit his way to the house, those motherfuckers have some explaining to do. Goddamnit Dana, your punishments don’t matter in the least until you grow a fucking pair of balls. Oooh… Dana’s gonna give his “Do you want to be a fuckin’ fighter” speech yet again. Maybe he should listen to his own yammering bullshit.
I stopped giving a dry fuck about “TUF” years ago, and none of that shit ever really mattered. It was a nice experiment, but I’d rather see a “day in the life of” type series of the fighters for a big event than putting a bunch of alcoholic jizzmonkeys in a big house…unless it’s “Oz.” That shit was great.