The heavy teases for this week’s show surround Dorian Price flipping out and an angry Matt Hughes threatening to take his frustration out on his team.

They recap the fight and Matt Aroyo says that Team Serra feels like they can’t lose and it’s a good feeling.

Matt Hughes says a blind man can see that he’s not happy. He says if he doesn’t think he can win, he won’t play the game. He says that anyone who doesn’t put in 100% in practice gets him next.

Hughes says Serra goes after the weaker guys when he chooses fights, but he only picked one time thus far.

I know I’ve said this before, but Pete Sell has a huge head. It’s shaped like a light bulb. Serra calls Hughes an ego-maniac jerk and a dick.

Jon Koppenhaver from Team Serra wants to fight Blake Bowman because he thinks he can stop him and earn $5,000 at the same time. Basically, he wants to fight who he thinks is the easiest guy.

Team Serra chooses Richie Hightower to fight Blake Bowman. Hughes says he’s surprised because he wasn’t impressed with Hightower at evaluations. Didn’t he say that the last time Matt picked? Actually, I think he said it about Joe Scarola, and he was right about that.

Hightower says he likes Blake, but he’s going to have to crush him like Stalin. Arroyo says that Bowman is more entertainer than fighter. Mac Danzig says he’s not sure what Bowman is doing here as he’s not very experienced, but he wants to help him and likes him. Danzig shows him how to knock someone out and Bowman seems apprehensive and Danzig says that he told him he once broke someone’s orbital bone. Bowman says it was by accident.

Bowman says he doesn’t have an impressive physique. He says he was never supposed to be anything other than a funny guy, but here he is, in the UFC, or at least on The Ultimate Fighter. Hughes says he doesn’t practice or train well, but thinks he’ll do well in the octagon.

Bowman hurts himself in practice and becomes overwhelmed at the fear of letting his team down if he can’t fight. The doctor tells him he has bruised ribs.

Dorian Price gets knocked silly in practice and doesn’t want to stop, but Hughes sees him and tells him to sit out. Coach Robbie Lawler and Price are talking and Price is having a hard time sitting out. The camera man is right there with the boom microphone and Price knocks it away. The camera man tells him that he can’t hit the microphone. Price seems to have a concussion or something and he can’t get over the camera man still filming him while he’s hurting. He goes up to the camera man to ask him to stop again before one of his teammates cuts him off and pushes him back. Price says he only went to confront him and wasn’t going to touch him. Price kind of looks like Grant Hill. Well, if Grant Hill were broke and crazy.

Dana White talks to Hughes and White says you can’t touch the production staff. He didn’t really touch him. He just karate chopped his mic. Danzig says he’s going a little crazy and he wants to help him because he likes him. Price says his teammates don’t talk to him, except Danzig and he can’t trust people to be people. Billy Miles says Price just isn’t ready to do something like this. Price thinks that White won’t hear his story. Wait, isn’t everything on tape as it is?

White talks to Price and reads him the rules and Price just says, “Yes sir.” He’s still on the show. Price says he’s shutting the “F” up for the rest of his time here. Price says Dana White is cool in the Black community. They’re doing a drill where Hughes is working on a ground and pound with Price on the bottom, and at the same time, someone is trying to put his legs in a submission. Price is going crazy telling Hughes that he loves his own blood and it tastes like kool-aid. This dude is crazy.

With the pink hair, Hightower kind of looks like Josh Haynes, who was on the third season of TUF. Danzig says that Bowman might be the only guy Hightower can beat, and if Hightower gets the $5,000 bonus for stopping the fight, he’s going to make sure it’s spent on hospital bills. Danzig also calls him a turd and says that Hightower gets under his skin.

Hightower is very confident. Bowman has both a decided reach and height advantage.

Round One

Bowman doesn’t look comfortable in a boxing stance. Hightower gets inside and starts wailing on Bowman up against the fence. He ate a couple knees, but just let his hands go. Bowman hits the ground and Hightower just punches until Big John stops the fight.

Winner: Richie Hightower by way of first round TKO.

Bowman says that his knee buckled and he couldn’t get up. He tells Hughes that Hightower didn’t knock him down, it was that his knee buckled. Hughes says they have three of the next four fight picks and he doesn’t feel badly because Bowman gave it his all.

Next week: Danzig turns on his teammate Bowman and Team Serra calls him a grump. Also, one of the fighters gets some bad news from home.

Labels: Matt Hughes, Matt Serra, The Ultimate Fighter, The Ultimate Fighter Season 6, TUF

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