The Ultimate Fighter 4 (Episode 4)

by: DarthMolen 2 years, 1 month, 3 days, 18 hours, 25 minutes ago

Company:

UFC

Series:

The Ultimate Fighter

 

Seems the house is having a case of Staph. It’s a highly infectious disease that is not to be messed around with. It started with two of the fighters and quickly spread throughout the house. They had some nasty rashes to show off throughout the whole show. If Staph gets inside the body, it can even be deadly. I had a friend who got it in their nose and almost died from the infection. They were in a coma and on life support within a couple days and were very lucky to pull through.

Then the bombshell comes. They started to focus on Jeremy Jackson and apparently he had been living out of the trunk of his car for the last little while. He has a problem with women and they keep throwing him out of their apartments and he can’t make enough fighting to support himself.

Right after he explains this to his housemates, he goes and screws up again. Literally. They go to a pool to train and he gives a map of the house location to a lifeguard. He then jumps the wall and ditches the house for a one night fling. In the morning, Dana White comes with Randy Couture and explains to everyone that somebody broke the rules and then throws Jeremy Jackson out of the house.

I don’t understand Jeremy’s thoughts here. He basically gave up a possibility for $100,000 dollars, a title shot, and lots of sponsorship money for a meaningless fling. Neither did any of the other fighters. I thought Mikey Burnett said it best. “That’s an expensive piece of ass. I’ve had a lot of @#$%@ but never one that was that expensive...”.

Scott Smith goes on a farting spree in the house which totally stinks everyone out. Din Thomas said it best, “I don’t know what to say. His ass STINKS!”. Quite juvenile but nice to know that they are normal people.

Team Mojo then announced that Travis Lutter was going to fight Scott Smith. My ears immediately perked up. Travis Lutter is an extremely quiet guy.  You always have to watch out for the quiet ones. Travis Lutter is a black belt in Brazilian Ju Jitsu and extremely competent standing up. Scott Smith is a Banger (likes to box) with a minor in GNP (Ground-n-Pound). Scott claims that Travis can’t take him down, Travis thinks he can and wants to go for the submission. Scott wants the knockout. My money was on Travis immediately.

Round 1 starts. Scott and Travis circle trading pawing jabs. Travis fakes the overhand right and goes for a two legged takedown. Scott stuffs the take down but Travis transitions to a back bearhug with one of Scott’s arms pinned. Travis continues the attempts to sweep and throw him but Scott defends well. Scott eventually slips after an attempted throw and Travis immediately jumps to the back mount with heel hooks sunk. Scott at this point is definitely in trouble and tries to defend against the choke but falls to the mat from Travis’ weight on his back. Travis is in control from up top and starts to throw hooks to the side of his opponents head to get Scott to loosen his handguard. Travis then successfully slips the forearm underneath Scott’s chin and completes the rear naked choke which causes Scott to tap in 4 seconds.

Quite entertaining even though the fight wasn’t long. It’s always fun to watch a professional like Travis Lutter work, even if its only for a minute. Not his fault that Scott couldn’t stuff his takedown.