Episode 1 came to abrupt end 40 or so seconds into the second round with my fight against Valentino, the outcome definitely set off a few of the Poms and while the ref was raising my hand in the middle of the cage our boy Xavier seemed to be pumped about the whole thing which caused a bit of confrontation with Norman from the UK team. The 2nd major event was Mike being sent home due to a torn bicep, he was a heavy favorite to win the competition in the LW division and heartbreaking for the entire house to see his dreams crushed before the fights began.
Now if you didn't pick up on it the entire UK team was hating on Ben Wall, we couldn't work out the reason for it and I just put it down to the UK being down 1-0 and the amount of testosterone getting around in that house. It didn't take very long at all before Norman and Freakshow came up with a few names and the one that stuck was ‘fox piss’. It was at this point that the entire UK lightweights were hoping that they would be matched with Wall.
Myself, Manny and Whitaker had the chance to chat to Freakshow a little and he seemed to be a cool guy, a little bit eccentric but pretty cool so we weren’t to sure if the whole persona thing was an act or actually him. He was a little frustrated with the UFC taking his ‘ bag of goodies’ from him prior to entering the house and I kind of got the feeling he was ready to fight a.s.a.p.
After George looked at putting Wall or myself up first depending on what weight class was nominated Wall had basically double the time I had to prepare. Freakshow was the chosen Pom to face Mr. Wall and really seemed quite confident in the faceoff. Our take on the whole thing was the same as the previous fight in the UK showing confidence to mask the nerves and doubt they were still carrying from the ‘shock ‘ loss from the last fight.
Something that hasn't been shown to much so far during the first 2 episodes was the weight cuts, obviously from the first fight Valentino was a much bigger guy than myself and rumor had it he had cut down from around the 95kg mark for our fight at 77kg, Wall and Freakshow are two fairly big LW fighters and I know for a fact Wall cut 10+ kgs for his fight. I was amazed at how deciplined he was during the weight cut which in turn made the cut seem somewhat easy, I was impressed at his ability to get down to weight and still go balls out for the whole fight. The fans don't realize how much work goes into making weight and I do think a little more emphasis should be put on what we go through every day in the gym and cutting weight to give the public a better idea of this game we play.
Wall went down in the second fight, which clearly should have gone to a third round. Credit to Freakshow though he fought a smart fight and did what he had to do to win. Morale was still high and I think Wall was a little frustrated as he left it to late to chase the fight down and seemed to fight a little different than the Ben Wall we have seen in previous fights. Next week stayed tuned for TUF smashes 1st house challenge WASABI vs PERRI PERRI!
Now if you didn't pick up on it the entire UK team was hating on Ben Wall, we couldn't work out the reason for it and I just put it down to the UK being down 1-0 and the amount of testosterone getting around in that house. It didn't take very long at all before Norman and Freakshow came up with a few names and the one that stuck was ‘fox piss’. It was at this point that the entire UK lightweights were hoping that they would be matched with Wall.
Myself, Manny and Whitaker had the chance to chat to Freakshow a little and he seemed to be a cool guy, a little bit eccentric but pretty cool so we weren’t to sure if the whole persona thing was an act or actually him. He was a little frustrated with the UFC taking his ‘ bag of goodies’ from him prior to entering the house and I kind of got the feeling he was ready to fight a.s.a.p.
After George looked at putting Wall or myself up first depending on what weight class was nominated Wall had basically double the time I had to prepare. Freakshow was the chosen Pom to face Mr. Wall and really seemed quite confident in the faceoff. Our take on the whole thing was the same as the previous fight in the UK showing confidence to mask the nerves and doubt they were still carrying from the ‘shock ‘ loss from the last fight.
Something that hasn't been shown to much so far during the first 2 episodes was the weight cuts, obviously from the first fight Valentino was a much bigger guy than myself and rumor had it he had cut down from around the 95kg mark for our fight at 77kg, Wall and Freakshow are two fairly big LW fighters and I know for a fact Wall cut 10+ kgs for his fight. I was amazed at how deciplined he was during the weight cut which in turn made the cut seem somewhat easy, I was impressed at his ability to get down to weight and still go balls out for the whole fight. The fans don't realize how much work goes into making weight and I do think a little more emphasis should be put on what we go through every day in the gym and cutting weight to give the public a better idea of this game we play.
Wall went down in the second fight, which clearly should have gone to a third round. Credit to Freakshow though he fought a smart fight and did what he had to do to win. Morale was still high and I think Wall was a little frustrated as he left it to late to chase the fight down and seemed to fight a little different than the Ben Wall we have seen in previous fights. Next week stayed tuned for TUF smashes 1st house challenge WASABI vs PERRI PERRI!
RSS Feed