The Ultimate Fighter 12

[Robstar]

Thought I'd open a discussion thread for this season's show.

What are your impressions of the fighters? The coaches? The episodes?

[Robstar]

Sick of seeing that "just so so" post. I take it not a lot of MMA fans on here then?

[Kashdinero]

First to reply! Wooo
This season is great so far Loving the cocky Bruce leeroy and that guy who kicks everyones ass in training while still drunk from the night before! As for the coaches I think they're perfect. Face v Heel at it's best, I can't wait for georges to shut Josh's mouth I'm also happy to see gsp face another wrestler, at least now it might (might!!!) be a more comptetive gsp fight .I'm sick of seeing a wrestler dryhump a striker for 3 (or 5) rounds, it's so frustrating.

Being from England I can't help but be a bit upset that Josh beat Paul Daley to earn the right to be coach. That loss to Josh really got under Pauls skin. Although it cost him his job, I was cheering him on when he sucker punched kos AFTER the bell (how's that for being a heel!!!). Josh must have talked some serious smack to him while he was mat fucking him out of the ufc....
Will georges be able to remain calm when Josh is talking sweet B.S in his seemingly innocent ear???? Of course he will!!!! He's G.S.P for F**k sake! For me the only real drawback of the show is I don't think kos is in the champs league. Then again who is?
I hope I'm pleasantly suprised though. Nothing better than a back and forth fight (must be the wrestling fan in me).

[Robstar]

Seriously? Daley screwed himself by doing that. Lol, I take it you don't like Koscheck then?

I missed ep 3, which I'm totally dirty on because I wanted to see that Bruce Leeroy incident in the house. I'm surprised there hasn't been more fights in all the series'.

I think Josh vs GSP will be pretty close, but you can't go past GSP if he's in form. When was his last fight though?

[Kashdinero]

No doubt about it Daley got himself a one way ticket out of the ufc and into mma obscurity! But I do think that he was goaded into it. Obviously daley as a pro should of held off from sucker punching kos. My problem with kos isnt his mouth it's his tactics in the cage. In his fight with Daley he seemingly took an illegal knee to the face and lay in the mat holding his face. But after the replay from a different angle it was clear that there was a graze at best that wouldn't have hurt a ten year old. Even referee dan murgliato told him to get up. It was a blatant and pathetic way to catch a breather.... He pulled the same shit against Jon jones in his match before that (honestly!!). I'm hoping georges will beat the tar out of him but it could be closer than most people think (me included).....

Georges last fight was against another Brit dan hardy (who I'm going to see live tomorrow at ufc 120!!) IMO gsp was no match for hardy standing but superior wrestling saved the day for him and won every round. It's also worth noting that try as he might he just couldn't finish dan, at one point I thought he was going to break his arm but hardy somehow survived. I later learned that although hardys toughness was a factor it was gsp not applying the hold correctly that allowed hardy to escape (nobodys perfect).

P.s I can't believe no one else on this forum cares enough about this season to comment!

[Kashdinero]

Also the leeroy "incident" passed without incident lol. Handbags at ten paces would be more accurate!!

[Robstar]

Someone gets smacked by the pool at some stage, though it's not Leeroy. Also Kos gets into it with one of Tyson's guys, was that in ep 3? I think they get pulled apart but I saw it on the series opener promo.

I wonder if GSP hasn't passed his prime? Like BJ is looking lately. Mind you, they'd still kick my ass!lol Time can only tell.

Are you a fan of Bisping? I quite like the man, although the americans don't! I think he'll win but you never know in MMA. Be interesting to see how Hardy comes back after a loss.
Yeah you'd think there'd be more MMA fans here huh?

[Kashdinero]

Didn't know that it was one of tysons guys that kos grabbed by the throat (not to sure who it is) That clip looked intense. If it was then it didn't happen in episode 3. The fight in ep 3 was awesome, great for the first and second but in the 3rd gsps number one pick must of channeled the spirit of a 1989 Tyson cos he came out and pasted the British guy (boo). I can only usually remember these guys names until after about 6 or 7 episodes.

I love bisping. Since his catastrophic knock out at the hands of Henderson at ufc 100, he's been looking quite good. He had a great fight with wanderlei and has destroyed dan miller and Dennis kang. He should do well against akiyama but anyone who saw his fight with leben knows akiyama is one tough cookie. Can't tell you how excited I am to see all my favourite Brits tomorrow at the O2 arena. When bisping comes out the place will go ballistic!!!! I know he's hated in the u.s but here bisping is a fuckin rockstar who could sell out arenas fighting nobodies. To tell the truth the name ufc could probably do a good job of filling wembely stadium which holds around 80,000!

Back to this thread

I plan on commenting all the way up to the finales of this season!! Let's see if we can get more people on by then!

[Robstar]

Leben has become a much better fighter too since then. I lot of fighters are arrogant and a bit ego driven but I think it's integral. You have to have that sort of confidence.

Maybe it wasn't one of Tyson's guys? Not sure, could be another fighter. Tyson was in ep3 again wasn't he?

[Kashdinero]

He was and he was talking about confidence funny enough. Something along the lines of confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence (so true). Leben looked awesome against akiyama. Those two fights in about a month really raised his standing in the ufc.