The Ultimate Fighter 4 (Episode 5)
by: DarthMolen 1 year, 11 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 4 hours, 35 minutes ago
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This weeks episode saw the drama in the house starting to build and two of the more veteran of the fighters go toe-to-toe with a surprising ending.
Everybody but Serra in the house is fed up with Shonie Carter. He is definitely acting the clown. He has this fascination with empty water bottles and has dug every water bottle out of the garbage he could find and threw them into the pool. So here you have fifty some-odd empty water bottles floating around in this beautiful pool and he doesn’t even bother to take them out. Needless to say, everybody is up in arms with Shonie’s antics.
There was also a coin flip to see if Rich Clemente or Pete Spratt would come back in place of Jeremy. Pete won but he wasn’t sure whether he wanted to come back and fight Serra but in the end he chose to stay. I thought it was kind of funny and I was wondering who got to him and talked some sense into the man...
In the end, team No Love didn’t pick Serra to fight anyways. Instead Mikey Burnett and Din Thomas were picked to scrum. I found it an interesting pick because they were both evenly matched on paper. Mikey has quite a checkered past and originated from “The Lion’s Den” and Din Thomas was an up-and-coming star that just decided to stop fighting one day and now wanted back in. They were both good bangers and both supposedly had a good ground-game. Din was all talk about how Mikey was his idol and that he was going to stand up with him and throw down. I knew that because there was so much filler, the match wouldn’t go too long.
The match started and they both circled trading blows. Mikey threw a looper and missed and Din immediately shot in and then drew guard. He then went for a weak triangle but Mikey shook it off and stood up. Mikey’s defense wasn’t that sophisticated. He wasn’t pushing down the guard and trying to move to a mount position. I knew he was going to be vulnerable to the triangle again.
So they stood and trade for a few flurries. Mikey threw a good leg kick and Din responded with a good right. Eventually Din drew guard again and this time he got the triangle in deep with the leg tucked. Mikey didn’t defend at all and instead tried to slam Din down which only drew the triangle in deeper. Mikey then tapped a couple seconds later.
Moral of the story? You have to be a well-rounded fighter in the new UFC and can’t expect one part of your game to carry you to stardom.