TUF 20 - Pettis, Melendez, Aisling Daly SPOILERS See Mod Note OP

Roar · 25-09-2014 9:12am

Dana White - not a good man for delivering bad news.

"Your mom called - your step dad died"

Pretty blunt!

John_D80 · 25-09-2014 10:13am

Is there a good way to deliver bad news??? Makes no difference to the person receiving it.

Not a bad episode this week. They seemed to focus on the potential trouble that's brewing in team Pettis. Fight was meh.

Also did it seem odd to anyone else that Aisling Daly was the only member of Team Pettis that was not involved in the game they were playing and she doesn't seem to be mixing with the others at all. I know we only see a tiny percentage of what goes on but I hope she wasn't isolated or excluded on purpose. She seems like a nice girl.

KJ · 25-09-2014 2:35pm

John_D80 wrote: »

Is there a good way to deliver bad news??? Makes no difference to the person receiving it.

Not a bad episode this week. They seemed to focus on the potential trouble that's brewing in team Pettis. Fight was meh.

Also did it seem odd to anyone else that Aisling Daly was the only member of Team Pettis that was not involved in the game they were playing and she doesn't seem to be mixing with the others at all. I know we only see a tiny percentage of what goes on but I hope she wasn't isolated or excluded on purpose. She seems like a nice girl.

It was Team Melendez playing the game together so I wouldn't be too worried about Ais' lack of involvement.

John_D80 · 25-09-2014 2:47pm

KJ wrote: »

It was Team Melendez playing the game together so I wouldn't be too worried about Ais' lack of involvement.

Lol my bad. :-)

Roar · 25-09-2014 3:04pm

Also, Jake Shields sounds almost exactly like Will Arnett.

El Guapo! · 25-09-2014 10:27pm

Pretty poor performance from Ellis. Her head wasn't with it at all and I think she lost that fight before she ever stepped into the cage. As DW said, she gave up the neck fairly quickly and with very little resistance. Shame really.

On another note, I just started watching TUF 1 again. I forgot how crazy Leben was!
It's amazing how many guys from that season became such a big part of the ufc.

Zero-Cool · 25-09-2014 10:46pm

Fairly poor episode, obvious your one didn't want to be there looking at her baby pics every 2 mins and crying. Mad to know when Ais is fighting and would be brilliant if they had her watching ufc dublin.

And whatever about DW's bluntness, did they really have to have the camera in her face? I know telly an all but that was a bit lousy.

CurryFlavoured · 25-09-2014 10:57pm

El Guapo! wrote: »

Pretty poor performance from Ellis. Her head wasn't with it at all and I think she lost that fight before she ever stepped into the cage. As DW said, she gave up the neck fairly quickly and with very little resistance. Shame really.

On another note, I just started watching TUF 1 again. I forgot how crazy Leben was!
It's amazing how many guys from that season became such a big part of the ufc.

It was class but TUF 5 was the best imo. No title winners but loads who went very far in the UFC, plus Frankie Edgar didn't even make it past the trials for that season!

John_D80 · 26-09-2014 11:07am

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

It was class but TUF 5 was the best imo. No title winners but loads who went very far in the UFC, plus Frankie Edgar didn't even make it past the trials for that season!

Took the words right out of my mouth. Easily the best season ever. Ticks every box. Nate Diaz stole the show for me.

Mr. Manager · 26-09-2014 11:26am

TUF 14 for me was the best.

John_D80 · 26-09-2014 1:26pm

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

TUF 14 for me was the best.

Yeah, loved 14 as well. Lot of bona-fide superstars came outta that season.

And in fairness, love or hate him, if Bisping is involved it's going to be entertaining. Great season.

Mr. Manager · 26-09-2014 1:53pm

John_D80 wrote: »

Yeah, loved 14 as well. Lot of bona-fide superstars came outta that season.

And in fairness, love or hate him, if Bisping is involved it's going to be entertaining. Great season.

There was so many finishes in that season too and we've got a world champ out of it!

Diego Brandao will still be my favourite ever TUF contestant. The guy was an absolute animal in that show. Like a rabid dog off a lead!

stiffler123 · 26-09-2014 2:10pm

Ellis's head was definitely gone before she got in the cage, she looked an emotional mess the whole episode. Penne was impressive though, and from the pre fight training montage it looked she was submitting people left and right.

On personality alone, I'd like Rose to win. She's class.

CurryFlavoured · 26-09-2014 2:12pm

Brandao looked like he was going to become a title challenger from watching him on the show, he was just knocking out people for fun including Carraway and Bermudez who are very talented. Mad to think that Bermudez isn't far off a title shot now while Brandao isn't even in the top 15.

MrStuffins · 26-09-2014 3:29pm

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

It was class but TUF 5 was the best imo. No title winners but loads who went very far in the UFC, plus Frankie Edgar didn't even make it past the trials for that season!

My missus was asking was TUF any good (as she has a passing interest in the fights but loves reality TV). I gave her TUF 5 to watch because I thought it was the best in every way.

She loved it and nowadays she won't now much about the fighters but will always know a TUF 5 fighter

John_D80 · 26-09-2014 4:28pm

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

There was so many finishes in that season too and we've got a world champ out of it!

Diego Brandao will still be my favourite ever TUF contestant. The guy was an absolute animal in that show. Like a rabid dog off a lead!

Christ yeah, he was a beast altogether. What made him even more frightening was when he started screaming in Portuguese and broken English. Definitely one of the stand-outs in the history of TUF. I have a vague recollection of him threatening to stab someone. Akira Corrisani as far as I remember.

Just had a look at the TUF 14 Wikipedia page. Three first round TKO's and one first round sub out of four fights has to be a record in TUF. I think the reason that he was so dominant is that none of them in the house could deal with his explosiveness at their then level of experience perhaps.

civis_liberalis · 30-09-2014 9:45pm

Aisling said on the MMA Hour that she wasn't allowed watch UFC Dublin when it was on. Had no idea who won or lost. That would have been tough. Not being able to fight there must have been excruciating.

She was able to see it sometime after. The bounce she must have gotten from seeing how it went must have been a great help to her.

Wrongway1985 · 03-10-2014 1:41am

civis_liberalis wrote: »

She was able to see it sometime after. The bounce she must have gotten from seeing how it went must have been a great help to her.

I also think she said somewhere she got to see it on Tape delay and her watching the event in the house will be shown on the show.

This weeks episode was so so, no other way to describe the fight only Angela Hill got owned Carla worked her game plan perfectly and didn't seem unsettled anywhere.

Zero-Cool · 03-10-2014 9:10am

Yeah so-so episode, again zero from Ais, 2 words from JoJo and next week is gonna be even worse with the Heather and Felice show.

xtal191 · 03-10-2014 1:22pm

Pretty poor season so far

Devastator · 03-10-2014 6:36pm

Tuf is like watching a bad episode of hollyoaks with a fight at the end. Its been talked about already when team Pettis were putting knickers on their sign and team Melendez 'pranked' them but did anyone notice last night that when it was showing the Russian girl Kish talking about her knee injury & trying to cut weight, in the locker room the sign had been changed(gaffa taped) to Team Penis. I'm sure they'll have to feature that at some point to hype things along. If anyone has it downloaded or streams its from about 15mins in.

Looking forward to next weeks episode so its finally outta the way & 1 of the 2 annoying bleeps will be out so *fingers crossed* won't feature as much

That_Guy · 04-10-2014 2:14pm

Is there a way for both Heather and Felice to lose?

Mellor · 07-10-2014 1:51pm

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

Brandao looked like he was going to become a title challenger from watching him on the show, he was just knocking out people for fun including Carraway and Bermudez who are very talented. Mad to think that Bermudez isn't far off a title shot now while Brandao isn't even in the top 15.

Berdumez was beating him in the finale before DB caught the armbar tbf

That_Guy wrote: »

Is there a way for both Heather and Felice to lose?

Heather gets the decision, but has blown her knee aggravating this weeks injury.
We can hope.

Devastator · 07-10-2014 2:31pm

Mellor wrote: »

Heather gets the decision, but has blown her knee aggravating this weeks injury.
We can hope.

Lets be honest, Heather is lucky to be alive after that injury!! :eek::D

MagicIRL · 08-10-2014 10:59pm

As much as I dislike how both women are portrayed in the show, wishing injury on either is a complete ballbag thing to do.

Cop on.

Devastator · 09-10-2014 1:26am

MagicIRL wrote: »

As much as I dislike how both women are portrayed in the show, wishing injury on either is a complete ballbag thing to do.

Cop on.

eh? Are you talking to me?

I don't wish injury on anyone, I joked about how she complained about her previous injuries :eek:

Mellor · 09-10-2014 2:54am

The injury happened on last weeks episode. The joke was her OTT reaction to it.
Nobody wished anything on anyone. Plus the events of the entire series haven't happened FFS.

Devastator · 09-10-2014 3:02am

whats up with this weeks episode? Is it not supposed to be on bt sports now?

Looks like unleashed korean zombie against garcia

flayes1 · 09-10-2014 3:15am

It's on a 2 week break on account of the baseball in America. Means we'll probably get a couple of double episodes in the back end of the season. The Mexican one is still going every Tuesday though. Entertaining enough.

Devastator · 11-10-2014 5:48pm

flayes1 wrote: »

The Mexican one is still going every Tuesday though. Entertaining enough.

yeah? I've not watched any of the "foreign" shows as wasn't sure how it would come across on subtitles. I tried to watch the 1st episode of TUF Brazil(Wanderlie & Chael) but soon gave up as the subs were awful lol

civis_liberalis · 12-10-2014 3:11am

I know she probably won't fight for ages but the complete lack of any Aisling Daly is annoying.

Fiddle Castro · 14-10-2014 6:19pm

There was a brief clip of her landing a nice punch at the end of the last episode, was worried that she may not have had a fight at all because of the other clip in which it looks like she passes out cutting weight.

civis_liberalis · 15-10-2014 2:42am

Fiddle Castro wrote: »

was worried that she may not have had a fight at all because of the other clip in which it looks like she passes out cutting weight.

Noticed that, haven't seen it mentioned anywhere until now.

DrPhilG · 15-10-2014 9:37pm

Any possibility that Ais is the one on the next episode who gets told they're out? It would explain why they seemingly haven't made any effort to promote her so far. Although it would rule out the bathroom incident as being weight cut related as she wouldn't be doing a weight cut on the next show anyway.

Or maybe Heather's knee injury turns out serious after all?

Hazys · 15-10-2014 9:48pm

Could be the girl struggling to make weight too.

Fiddle Castro · 15-10-2014 10:02pm

DrPhilG wrote: »

Any possibility that Ais is the one on the next episode who gets told they're out?

In the montage at the end of the last episode it shows her fighting.

Wrongway1985 · 15-10-2014 10:08pm

Is this back next week?

Big Ears · 15-10-2014 10:37pm

Hazys wrote: »

Could be the girl struggling to make weight too.

Is Justine Kish not suffering from quite a serious knee injury too ?, having had previous knee ligaments issues her's seems far worse that Heather's. So my guess would be she's gone.

Devastator · 16-10-2014 3:49pm

ANybody know if there is an episode this week? I didn't check on btsports last night but theres no torrents to download and its not on a streaming site either which normally by this time would be upto date with latest episodes

Fiddle Castro · 16-10-2014 4:05pm

Not this week, Baseball playoffs again. It's back next week.

TherapyBoy · 22-10-2014 8:01pm

Just a heads-up for anyone who has set their DVR to record this tonight, it's on BT sports 2 not 1 so you'll have to setup your UPC box to record it again. Not sure about Sky.

Devastator · 23-10-2014 4:15am

Ais fights next week folks!!
Fight announcement and shows her coming through the doors to the fight so all the previus concerns about showing Ais looking like shes collapsed do not stop the fight

As on this weeks episode...WOOOHOOOO 1 of them is out of the competition!

Don't think its very fair the other girl coming back in team Pettis, surely that means they now have a full team plus 1 injured girl for the fighters to train/spar with whereas team Melendez are short 1 member now....but they cant really complain much having lost every fight so far

stiffler123 · 23-10-2014 4:23am

The ref was way too eager to stand them up in that fight. He wasn't letting them advance positions at all, just kept shouting work even when they were throwing punches. Not that the outcome would be any different mind you, Felice dominated the fight.

raze_them_all_ · 23-10-2014 4:32am

stiffler123 wrote: »

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general rule is spoilers

stiffler123 · 23-10-2014 6:13am

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

general rule is spoilers

Read the first post on page 1.

Lenin Skynard · 23-10-2014 6:53am

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

general rule is spoilers

4:30am when the thing has just been on, whinging about spoiliers. Learn to internet please.

raze_them_all_ · 23-10-2014 10:56am

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

4:30am when the thing has just been on, whinging about spoiliers. Learn to internet please.

where did I whinge or complain?? I was actually thinking of other users I had no problem with it or I would of complained

Devastator · 23-10-2014 1:56pm

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

where did I whinge or complain?? I was actually thinking of other users I had no problem with it or I would of complained

Nobody has any right to complain about spoilers :rolleyes: see the very first sentence in the thread!

Mr. Manager · 23-10-2014 2:40pm

And the thread title...

Easy Rod · 23-10-2014 2:59pm

Yeah I've complained about spoilers before when it involves cross-thread posting. But I came in here knowing posters would be talking about the latest episode. My choice and I was given fair warning.

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TUF 20 - Pettis, Melendez, Aisling Daly SPOILERS See Mod Note OP