This week the guys were a little punchy. There was plenty of drama to behold in the house with Team Pulver and Team Penns going after each other. The fight was anti-climatic but the drama made up for it.
Its a little early in the show for libido desperation but apparently these guys are showing symptoms already. A couple women rode by the house on horses and these men were almost howling like wolves when they saw them. They invited the girls around the front and thats where it went all wrong.
The horses were shoed and the driveway acted like glass so when one of the horses set foot on the cement, it immediately splayed out dumping its rider on her rear. Quite funny really in a scary sort of way. The fighters of course acted like a kid that stole candy from the candy store and ran out like little girls with arms linked to help the horse back up. They then were so embarassed by the escapade that they immediately sent them on their way.
The next drama of the night was internal to Team Penn. Ruediger and Wiman don’t like each other. To be honest, not many people like Ruediger in the house. Most consider him a fat, overweight, whiney schmuck but Wiman just happens to voice his opinion to Gabe’s face which doesn’t go over very well with Ruediger. So they go at each other for like 10 minutes and eventually forces B.J. Penn to have to moderate the internal struggle. Penn is a pretty laid back guy and seems to have a really hard time trying to control 2 Type A personalities that happen to have a tiff. Lets just say he doesn’t inspire fear in the two combatants and the feud continues on in spite of the intervention.
After that the guys in the house start up on the shenanigans early. They find a shield and start to throw javelins at it and somebody gets the bright idea that they want to hold the shield while the other guys are throwing javelins at it. Yeah, “Hello, 9-1-1? My friend has a javelin sticking out of his chest… It was an accident, I swear...”. Somebody finally gets an idea and convinces them that they should test it first and uses a rock as a demonstration. The aforementioned fighter holding the shield then gets pegged right in the crotch with a rock and rolls on the ground in agony for several minutes. Classic.
Team Penn then tags the wall with “Suck it, Team Pulver” and when the other team comes home, they go off the hinges. Emerson first goes ape and takes off his shirt wanting to fight in the house and then Manny goes ape for about 5 minutes and says that he wants to go home, etc before they can calm him down. Every other word was a bleeped eff-bomb it seemed. Reminded me of a bunch of Chihuahuas barking at each other.
At the selection time, BJ tried to influence Pulvers to pick another way but Jens didn’t bite and took Noah Thomas vs. Manny Camburyan.
Manny is very strong and the cousin to Karo Parisyan. Even Dana White says that he is a beast. He has been out of fighting for two years due to injuries but TUF 5 is his ticket back in.
Noah Thomas is an ex-marine who attended sniper school and was enlisted for 6 years. It was fuzzy on whether he was an actual sniper but he was deployed at one time and you have to respect a man for that. His brother is currently deployed. Noah has a slight superiority complex which rubs his other Type A personality housemates the wrong way.
After all the build-up, the fight was anti-climatic and didn’t even last past the first round. Manny came out blazing and knocked Noah on his rear and jumps straight on him, manhandling him at will. Eventually he gets a North-South position and pulls out a kimura in short order and sends Noah packing.
This week was Reality-TV heavy and Fight light. Although entertaining, it gets old after awhile. Hopefully the fights get better the later it goes but entertainment is still entertainment.