The Ultimate Fighter 4 (Episode 2)
by: DarthMolen 2 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours ago
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If you want to watch TUF 4: Ep. 2 then you better not eat beforehand. You thought Blade was bloody?
So far, the personal interplay has been sub-standard compared to other seasons. Granted, this is just the second episode but it seems like some of the tensions and ackwardness doesn’t exist between all the contestants. My hypothesis is that because they are all professional athletes, they have a common ground to meet upon. I don’t know, but they had to manufacture some tension by banging on Shonie because he wrote in his journal??? Definitely not as good as Leben pee’ing on someone’s bed. Hopefully the “house material” will improve as the season goes on.
Regardless, the fighting remains top-notch. Edwin Dewees and Gideon Ray get to bang in this episode and they definitely delivered when it came to action.
Edwin came out in the first round on a mission. He was constantly taking down Gideon and applying a lot of GNP (Ground-n-Pound). Gideon looked overmatched and frustrated by the time the bell rang.
The second round looked to be headed down the same road until Gideon Ray delivered the nastiest elbow off his back to Edwin’s head. It grazed off the hairline and immediately started to spurt blood. I don’t mean trickle. I mean Edwin gushed a fountain of blood from the mount position down onto the mat. They stopped it a couple of times to wipe Edwin’s eyes but the doctor on site allowed the fight to continue. It was so bloody that Edwin’s hair was bright-red by the end of the round. There was a point in the match where Edwin was holding one hand over the hole in his forehead to staunch the bloodflow and using his other hand to GNP Gideon.
The match continued into a third round and eventually Edwin won out. I was surprised he hadn’t feinted from loss of blood.
They definitely helped confirm the fears of most conservatives that UFC is one of the bloodiest fight venues by allowing the match to continue. Despite the blood, both fighters were crisp and you have to admire a fighter that isn’t afraid to see his own blood.
That was a good fight, but DAMN did Babyface bleed like no one I’ve ever seen. Edwin is smart though because instead of panicking like a lot of fighters would, he just covered it up and went to work.
I think the judges called it correctly.