Also, there's a lot more crying on TUF then one might expect. They are not afraid not afraid to show their tender side.

Like Zarth, but with fisticuffs.

That fight was left in the show to prove a point. Dana did the right thing by kicking those clowns off the show. He's spent the last decade working his ass off to legitimize MMA and the UFC and do you think he's going to allow these three guys to fuck it up for him. For so long the UFC has had to quiet the critics who say its nothing more than a barbaric modern day gladiator match. Senator John McCain once proposed a ban on "ultimate fighting" calling it 'human cockfighting'. If he had allowed them to continue on the show, he would have only proved the critics right in their beliefs that fighters are not athletes and are mindless drunken bar room brawlers. And as a fan and a jiu jitsu student i'd rather see the guys who are more disciplined and can control themselves outside of the octagon than brash, loudmouthed immature assholes who do nothing but give fighters a bad name.

I can see your point, and to a certain extent i agree. let's just go over a few things though.

have you seen the advertising they are doing for this season? guys throwing a fusball table in the pool, kicking holes in walls, getting in more fights in the house, and basically being jackasses.

so you can say Dana white does this, and Dana White is doing that, but I am pretty sure he has a fair amount of creative control in the show and can omit certain things if he were so inclined.

why then, if Dana White is in fact this crusader for good and has all this control of an immensly popular show, would he allow such advertisments to continue? I tell you why, because he wants the fucking raitings. he wants his brand's name out there. oh sure he talks a good talk about being a crusader for the sport and changing perceptions of how people view the UFC, and the people involved in the UFC, that is when half of his sentences aren't being bleeped out because he seems to curse with the proficency and ease of a drunken pissed off Marine this to me indicates a level of unproffesionalism for the mouth piece and crusader of MMA.

he can say whatever he wants, his actions to me indicate he has no interest in the fighters, or perception he and they give the world that these guys are bi-polar, roid raging, cry about anything fucktards. Dana White wants one thing. ratings. and let's face it, immature assholes breaking shit while drunk, pissing in people's gear, graffiting walls, and getting into brawls with each other fucking sales like crack! I don't like it, i would never act that way, but there you go, that is why they don't pick normal, even keel guys to focus in on while taping the show, they don't produce numbers.

if Dana white wanted to show them as actual professional athletes who are mature and not lunatics he could easily spring some extra cash for the show and let them all have their own room, take away the booze, and penalize them for disruptive or destructive behaviour. i think this would cut down on a lot of the problems on the show. Instead he let's them go fucking ape shit, and let's his fighters in the real UFC use steroids.

in conclussion Dana White is a huge fucking douche bag and a hypocrite to boot.

sometimes, i think...."what the hell is this guy crying for? he just got to train with the pros every day for a month, absolutely free. i just paid $80 to train with royce gracie for 3 hours. and now he might not have won the contract, but he'll be brought back to the UFC in the future. if he didn't, then every other minor promotion will bend over backwards to get someone who was on that show."

...but with all the pressure they create for themselves, they still have more reason to cry than someone who has to hear simon cowell tell them they can't sing because they butchered the song from the titanic (it takes a really bad singer to make that song any worse than it already is).

i think hughes will be a better coach that serra.
but honestly, i am not so sure yet which team i prefer this season.

my roommate and i sat and discussed the merits of the two matt's as coaches. i prefer Serra cuase he will always have your back, he always shows up and you can always hear him at ring side. my roomate prefered Hughes. his training regimene looks a bit mroe hardcore, but he still seems way to cocky for me. it was just his whole attitude. i will give him a slight advantage in the following areas.

1. like him or hate him he was champ for a long time. that takes skill, and dediaction and he knows what it takes to get there and stay there

2. he has coached on the show before.

3. He comes from a camp where there was at one time two champions and multiple contenders, so he knows what it is to be in that environment and how to create it.

i give serra the following advantages.

1. he can empathize with the fighters since he had to live in the house.

2. He is louder than Hughes and i think he cares more for the fighters he trains than hughes does.

3. he knows what it is like to be an underdog and prove everyone wrong.

i dunno. i still go Serra, i like him as a human being better.