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By: John Albert, TUF 14 Competitor
So this episode goes on like any other; pranks, drama, and fighting. Bisping retaliated after Mayhem's lame prank by taking off his tires and putting them in his training room. It was hilarious, and we all got out of our vans laughing our asses off because we still got to see Mayhem put his tires back onto his car.
At this point, training is getting a little heated; you take eight guys with eight different backgrounds all here to prove they're the best at what they do, and nobody except me, Bass and T.J., of course had any control in the beginning. It seemed no one realized that we were the only training partners we've got and, yes, the goal is to hopefully fight each other in the semis or finale.
But nobody got that; they all had to prove just how bad ass they were. There's a difference between training hard and trying to be the best in gym. That comes with the territory, though; we're all professional fighters and want everyone to know we're the best, but it definitely took a couple training sessions for everyone to realize how important we all were for each other to progress on the show.
If no one is willing to train with you or we can't get training suited to get each other into shape, we can't perform well for our fights. Diego was definitely the biggest hot head on our team, but we all find out that while he's training he puts himself in some kind of psychotic trance and all he wants to do is murder, because to him this is the most important thing in his life; he's been fighting since he was 13 in the ghetto of Brazil, so the dude's had it rough for sure.
Elsewhere, Akira is pranking poor Neace pretty good. Neace didn't handle it too well, and they get in the funniest verbal spouting bout I've ever seen. I was outside watching it in the hallway just dying, it was too funny. Neace really wasn't there to be apart of the pranks, that's expected in the house for everyone gets pranked, but it seemed since he didn't want to be a part of it he got the brunt of it, hahaha poor guy.
Onto the fight picks, I wasn't really expecting to be picked but I was definitely hoping. I had a gut feeling they were gonna pick me but I was wrong, but as you see later in the episode seems we got moles on each team. You can't really be mad at them because of course, why not take every advantage you can, so that shit didn't really bug me too bad. You do what you have to do on the show, its not like a normal fight card.
And finally to Josh Ferguson and Johnny Bedford. I was truly pulling for Josh and I really believe he could have won that fight. He was out-boxing Johnny but he didn't work his angles and Johnny got the take downs which won him that fight. Relatively impressive fight, Josh fought his heart out he was just simply out-wrestled. Now we're down two to nothing, super sad day, but surprisingly our team was in good spirits because we all knew that we all had to be ready at any given moment to fight. Trust me, the pranks keep coming, and Mayhem cannot compete, which is surprising since he's supposed to be the wild man of the show.
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