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Dec 04 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 12

They tease that Junie goes on another freak out and Dana has to decide whether to let him fight or kick him out.

The first fight is Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Vinny Magalhaes. Krzysztof says that you punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt.

Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Vinny Magalhaes

After getting hit in the face, Vinny pulled guard and pulled Soszynski down with him. Then he pulled his foot behind his head and trapped him there while laying in elbows. Soszynski threw about 5 unanswered leg kicks. Vinny was trying to go to the ground at every opportunity and pull guard. Vinny caught him and arm barred him quick for the victory.

Winner: Vinny Magalhaes by way of 1st round submission

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Dec 04 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 11

The first fight is Ryan Bader vs. Eliot Marshall.

Big Nog says that he thinks Bader is going to win the season and also be a champion some day.

Eliot admits that Bader is probably the favorite to win the show. Frank Mir says Bader won’t take him down because Eliot is a jiu-jitsu black belt.

Bader says he controls where the fight goes. Eliot says he just gets to control where he gets to lose.

Eliot Marshall vs. Ryan Bader

Eliot is so lanky. But he’s also decently built. About half way through the round, Bader took Marshall down and they just stayed there for the rest of the round. Marshall didn’t try to pull anything off from the bottom. And Bader just threw some punches, but nothing happened.

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Nov 20 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 10

Shane Prim says that John Polakowski is legally insane. He’s John “The Hugger”.

George Roop says that even though John is nice, he’s going in there with bad intentions and is going to make him bleed. He hurt his hand sparring. Mir says he hyper extended his finger at the knuckle. He can’t make a fist.

Someone stole the marshmallows from John’s box of Lucky Charms and he’s no longer John “The Hugger”. He’s pissed.

Mir says Roop’s hand is a dead fish. Dana White says John “The Hugger” is goofy, but he can go toe to toe. Mir says it should be an easy win for Roop, but because of that hand, the fight is harder.

Big Nog likes Roop and plays around with him.

John Polakowski vs. George Roop

Roop had the upper hand for more than half the round, but “The Hugger” got on top with about 1:30 left in the round. But Roop was doing just as much from the bottom as John was.

John was throwing the better punches and seemed to have hurt Roop in the second. Then Roop took over and controlled him for the rest of the round and then got his back, but couldn’t get the choke in.

Winner: George Roop by way of unanimous decision

Dana White says bad judging killed the fight because “The Hugger” won the second round.

Junie blew up again because the guys were messing with him and throwing eggs at him while he was at the pool. Not sure why it was even necessary to show it.

They are picking the semi-final matches.

The semi-finals are:

Ryan Bader vs. Eliot Marshall

Philipe Nover vs. George Roop

Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Vinny Magalhaes

Junie Browning vs. Efrain Escudero

Next week, we get two fights and they are the first on the list.

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Nov 15 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 9

I really need to start watching this show on Wednesdays. It’s actually getting pretty good.

The preview says that a fighter gets knocked out in the house. Uh oh.

They recap the fight from last week and Team Nog chants, “Assassin Phillipe!”

Krzysztof Soszynski is in the last light heavyweight fight and his thumb is jacked.

Tom Lawlor and the just defeated Dave Kaplan are drinking and Kaplan is getting ripped. Kaplan says he’s never been knocked out. Shane says that Kaplan and Lawlor only brought speedos to the house because that’s all they wear. Shane talks exactly like BJ Penn.

Junie is all for the drinking because it takes the attention away from him. A drunken Kaplan begs Lawlor to hit him and he finally does and Kaplan just goes out. Kaplan says he wasn’t knocked out. But he really was. He couldn’t stand up straight. Kaplan says he wasn’t unconscious. He must watch the tape of himself.

Vinnie says Krzysztof has good stand up, but can’t stop takedowns. He faces Kyle Kingsbury in the fight. Team Nog pranks Krzysztof by putting any movable object in the house into his room. Dan Henderson comes in and train with Krzysztof, but it’s a short segment. They don’t really put him over like they put over Silva.

Krzysztof enjoys the prank, but his team doesn’t look like they’re going to help him clean up his room.

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Nov 09 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 8

I’ve heard about some disgusting things going on this week. I’m almost afraid to watch.

Team Nog steals Tom Lawlor’s fruit tray. Who knew that the TUF house would become the house of pranks? Lawlor wants to urinate on the fruit tray for the next time Team Nog eats his fruit. Four guys peed on it. I hope Team Nog doesn’t test positive for steroids if they eat the fruit.

Team Mir chooses Dave Kaplan to fight Phillipe Nover. Isn’t Nover the guy who fainted on the first show? Mir says Phillipe must die.

Team Nog immediately grabbed the fruit tray and started eating. When Kaplan told them it wasn’t extra juicy, it was extra urinated, they tried to make themselves gag and throw up. Kyle says the fruit might’ve even tasted better than normal.

Kaplan said he was in Holland for 7 months, working out with Ernesto Hoost.

Phillipe is a sushi lover, but whenever he gets back from training, his sushi is already eaten. Kyle came up with an idea to ejaculate on the sushi for whoever eats it. Guys are disgusting.

Junie is upset that Kaplan doesn’t want to roll that much.

Kyle puts some special sperm sauce on Phillipe’s sushi. And Kaplan ate it. Kaplan says that he’s going to put his fecal matter on anyone who had something to do with his semen sushi.

Kaplan says that Phillipe is better at being Filipino than he is, but he’s a better fighter.

Junie decided to tell Phillipe about Kaplan, which isn’t a good team move.

David Kaplan vs. Phillipe Nover

Nover is three inches taller and has a big time reach advantage.

Nover knocked Kaplan down thirty seconds into the fight with straight right and lefts and Kaplan goes down. Nover got his back and sunk in a rear naked choke for the submission win. Junie was happy.

Winner: Phillipe Nover by way of 1st round submission

Dana says that Nover reminds him of Georges St. Pierre. Kaplan says he let his pride get in the way of his technique. Kaplan says he’s still the better fighter.

Next week, Kaplan goes crazy. And the coaches challenge is a penalty kick soccer match. They need to bring back the ping pong.

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Oct 31 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 7

They recap the fight between Junie Browning and Roli Delgado. I still can’t believe how terrible Roli was on his feet. It’s like he never threw a punch in his life.

Frank Mir told Junie that it wasn’t good enough. Mir says it was a victory that was almost a loss. Mir says that Junie scares the shit out of him outside the ring.

Krzysztof thinks he fractured his thumb. Mir says that Vinnie has a good ground game, but MMA is a different animal.

Big Nog loves Jules for his heart. He’s worried because he can’t pick the fights since he doesn’t have the control.

Frank Mir’s team has to run with snorkels in their mouth which restricts oxygen. Then he has the guys jump into a trash can of ice water so that it immediately treats the inflammation.

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Oct 22 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 6

We are promised a Junie Browning fight, which should be pretty good.

Frank Mir asks Rolando Delgado about his black belt in jiu-jitsu. Most of Team Mir thinks he’s bullshitting.

Junie says he bought his black belt from McDonalds.

Mir says that he had to get his black belt by submitting Tim Sylvia.

Junie tells Rolando that if he gets out of the first round, he’ll tell Dana to give the fight to Rolando. Somewhere, I missed that this fight was definitely taking place.

Frank Mir makes it official. Junie throws a black belt at Delgado and Delgado playfully wraps it around him. Then Junie pushes him, puts the belt down and spits on it. Big Nog is never going to do this show ever again. Big Nog says he does it for attention. Anderson Silva says Junie did it because he was scared of Delgado and then tells him to kick his ass. Can you imagine being on a team with Big Nog and Anderson Silva?

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Oct 16 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 5

Anderson Silva is on the show tonight and talk about looking like a man among a bunch of boys.

Dana White says that Keith Kizer, the head of the athletic commission, wasn’t there or else Junie would’ve been kicked off the show for jumping the cage after last week’s fight.

Junie apologized to Frank Mir, and Mir said, “Make it up, sorry doesn’t mean shit.” Junie said he promised that it wouldn’t happen again, but Mir didn’t seem to believe him.

Efrain wants to punch him a little and send him back to earth.

Shane calls Anderson Silva a ninja on his feet.

Krzysztof takes Efrain’s underwear, wraps them, and puts them in the freezer. Then they put itching powder in his bed as well as some of the other guys’ stuff. Efrain found his underwear and then said it was war. But then his butt started itching.

Big Nog chooses Eliot vs. Shane for the second 205 pound match.

Team Big Nog is put sardines around the rooms of the Team Mir guys, even soaking their bed sheets in sardine juice.

Vinny pissed on Efrain’s bed spread. Somewhere, Chris Leben is smiling.

Frank Mir says that Eliot’s weakness is that he can’t fight the way he trains, and when that time comes, he’s going to be a really good fighter.

Big Nog doesn’t like the games the guys are playing in the house because he says that the athlete needs his rest. Big Nog tells Mir to tell his guys to stop the practical jokes, but Mir kind of blew him off. Big Nog says that’s bad for Mir.

Big Nog goes into the house to get the guys to stop with the BS and Team Mir disrespected him. Eliot decided to argue with him.

Eliot Marshall vs. Shane Primm

Less than a minute into the round, Marshall had Primm in a rear naked choke with both hooks in, but couldn’t sink the choke. He stayed on it and worked it until getting the submission midway through the round. Very easy win for Marshall.

Winner: Eliot Marshall by 1st round submission

Eliot tells Krzysztof that it’s going to be the two of them in the finals, and Vinny gets upset and says he can beat both of them in one day.

Next week, Junie fights.

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Oct 09 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 4

I’m back with the play by play of Episode 4.

Dana White shows the guys UFC 84, which I attended live in Las Vegas.

Krzysztof Soszynski (he needs a nickname by the way) says that Junie and Shane hit the wine bottle and the tequila and then start riling up the red team. Junie throws a glass at Kyle and cuts his arm. Junie thinks he’s gone for throwing the glass. But then he says that he doesn’t care because he’ll beat anyone who wins if he doesn’t.

Shane starts challenging all the 155′ers on the red team and starts pushing people. And he’s way drunk. Together, they start breaking stuff and throwing furniture in the pool. Krzysztof has enough of it and gets in Junie’s face. He then put Junie’s clothes in the pool when he decided to take a swim. Junie pushes him and Krzysztof calls him a bitch. Bader throws his clothes back in the pool and Junie tries to pull him into the water. He then kicks one of the guys down who is trying to control him. He breaks down and tries to sober up.

He says he’s destined for failure and calls himself a screw up.

Dana calls him a punk and possibly an alcoholic. He calls Shane a drunken retard. But he’s not kicking anyone off. He tells Junie to be a fucking man.

Big Nog chooses Efrain against Shane. In the house, Shane tried to challenge him and now he gets his opportunity.

Efrain says he came into the house undefeated and he’s going to leave the house undefeated.

Junie says if Efrain beats Shane it will be boring because all he will do is take him down and hold him. Junie and Efrain talk mess to each other and Junie gets heated again. He tries to get Efrain to submit him in the house. This had to be just a day after Dana told him he had one more chance.

Mir says that Shane is a purple belt under BJ Penn and he thinks it’s a good match-up for Shane.

Shane Nelson vs. Efrain Escudero

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Oct 07 2008

The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir - Episode 3

Thanks to whomever’s fault it was, TUF didn’t record for me last week and I had to find it under CSI - NY on my DVR. But I have it now and though we’re a few days later, better late than never right?

The guys are finally in the house now.

Junie Browning is already drinking a beer. He even looks like a mini Chris Leben. They show him chugging whiskey in the hot tub.

Krzysztof Soszynski looks like a badass by the way. He was a former pro wrestler.

It’s time to pick sides. Dana asks Brian and Karn to step forward and tells them they have to leave the house because of nose fractures. The Nevada State Commission won’t let them fight. They didn’t want to leave and Dana made them leave.

Dana brings back Kyle Kingsbury. The 155 pounder who is invited back is already flying home and they have to fly him back to Vegas. He’ll be the last 155′er chosen.

Frank Mir chooses Krzysztof with his first pick.

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