It begins tonight at 10 on Spike and I have no idea if PWOT has any MMA fans. I know Smutt is one, but he doesn't post often and when he does I usually ignore it because chances are it's not a very quality post.

This season the coaches are Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock. Their personalities clash, and they've had a feud in their history. I've heard rumours that they get into a scuffle in the very first episode. At the end of the season they're going to have a fight on PPV which Tito should easily win, but who knows.

I'm very excited for this show and I became a huge MMA fan after the second season. I hope I'm not the only one because I love discussing this stuff with people. Tune in tonight!

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They are still showing the first series here in NZ but I'm already a huge fan.  Shephen Bonner who came a close second in the light heavy weights range in the first Ultimate Fighter series and Chris Leben, the "bad boy" from the first series are both fighting tonight in the UFC Ultimate Fight Night 4.

I watched tonight but the elimination fight was a bit dissappointing.  Was the guy who lost the Golden Gloves boxer? I was writing an essay through all the training so I'm not sure I had that attached to the right guy, but considering all that guy had was stand-up skills I figured it was him.

As for the sis' boyfriend his name's Dan Miller.  He and his brother Jimmy both took it up recently, they're fighting in Reality Fighting, which is inconvenient because when you say that and that its MMA people think I'm saying he's on this show.  I don't know too much about Reality other than it's MMA and in an octagon, it seems to be regional here in the northeast.  I guess its of a decent popularity since they fight in AC and charge a decent price ($100-$50 for tickets), and I know if he and his brother win their fights on the 29th the people are really looking forward to promoting brothers going for belts at the same event.  And he's won his first two fight in like 3 minutes total which is apparently good.

Yeah, I know they train at Planet Jiu-Jitsu,  His brother's on there too, I think one class down.

Have Ortiz and Shamrock fought more than once?  Because from the clips they showed of their first fight it doesn't look like they would be an entertaining PPV fight since it looked like Ortiz just rocked him.  Also, I've seen about three fights now, and can officially say going to the stomach is a bad decision.  A very bad decision actually, for anybody who isn't fond of being repeatedly punched in the head.

They've only fought once. In Ken's book "Beyond the Lion's Den" he explains how he had knee problems at the time and that really limited what he could do in the fight. I'm still thinking that Ortiz will destroy him at the end of the show. Ken is a wash-up now, and Tito is already beginning to make his way back into the UFC.

Posters at Sherdog.com, one of the bigger mma forums, have been arguing almost 50/50 for and against about Shamrock using a nutritionalist.  Thoise for it have been arguing that because TUF is in its third series they are only taking serious fighters who already have decent reputations, those who aren't already pretty competent fighters aren't likely to learn much that will be of use to them in the 2 months they will spend on the show.  However any fighter will get conditioning benefits from a good nutritionalist.

Some say Shamrock is crazy for not taking a BJJ specialist trainer, others argue he has always been a great submission fighter, and coach, and having personally faced the Gracies he knows a thing or two about BJJ.

I'm really liking Tito as a coach more and more as I watch this show. So far Bisping has been his only critic and I'm getting the feeling that he's an asshole. I mean the guy's complaining that he's being unfairly treated because Tito is putting a lot of attention on the guy that is deaf.

Speaking of assholes, Tait Fletcher is making himself known as one too. I'm not liking his attitude at all. Kalib was also being an asshole when Ken was yelling at him for slacking. I found that weak too.

As for the fight, I'm really glad Noah won. Jesse was being a moron in the house and stabbing Noah's basketball was a huge dick move. The armbar Noah put on Jesse was pretty sick. Didn't look like he was squeezing his knees, but other than that it was pretty nice. Especially for the fact that Jesse tried fighting out of it. I thought his arm was going to snap, but he seemed okay at the end of the fight so I guess he didn't take any real damage.

I'm looking forward to next week. From the preview it looks like my opinion of Tito will rise again while I'm left wondering why Ken is resting his guys after a loss. Also, the preview showed Ed Herman hitting the bottle which makes me question the character of Team Quest. On one hand they have classy guys like Couture and Quarry. On the other hand they have assholes like Ed Herman and Chris Leben.

My God there's a lot of assholes in the house this season.

Wow, Kendall just worked Ross.  Even in the early brawling it looked to me like he was dominating, those bunch-elbow combos were brutal, and then once they were tied up it was an inevitability.  I like Kendall, seems like less of a dick than a lot of the others, though I can't believe that teammates can be happy with the whole Team Dagger.

I know this isn't UF3 but I wasn't sure if it was really worth its own thread.  Did anyone else catch UFC 60 last night?  My sister's boyfriend ordered it so I got to see my first live event and it was damn entertaining.

*SPOILERS*

The Hughes-Gracie fight was fantastic.  It was insane to see Gracie not tap from that armbar, but to not even react is inhuman.  The undercards and then subsequent re-airings of the preliminary fights were generally pretty enjoyable in my opinion, though the black guy (I don't know his name but apparently he was from an earlier UF) came off as a huge dick.  He had a nice KO punch though.  My personal highlight of the night though had to be the flying knee KO.  Sweet.

Also, they announced that UFC 61 will feature Ortiz vs. Shamrock, which at least is pertinant to UF3.

I didn't watch any of the fights after the Gracie fight, but it sounds like they played some more fights afterward. Do they do that if all the previous fights were really quick? Sounds like I missed some good stuff.

It was sad to see Gracie lose, but I and everyone else predicted that it was going to happen. If anything I'm surprised it lasted 4 minutes.

Tonight's fight should be interesting. I want to see the deaf guy throw a late punch cause he can't hear the horn.