The MMA Digest

Mac Danzig shares his thoughts on Episode 5 of TUF 6 in the OC Register:
http://www.ocregister.com/sports/danzig-tuf-ufc-1896853-welterweight-season

I’m the bad guy this week.I got a feeling this one’s going to bevery long. …

So Episode 5starts with some clips of the Bowman fight which includes descriptive voice-overs by some of the fighters.I said something along the lines of “You don’t lose in that fashion, jumping to the mat and covering up.” The interview where I said this took place right after the fight, before we realized that Bowman had a legit knee injury. Not having the luxury of any type of video replay, a few of us on Team Hughes, including me, thought that Bowman’s knee was not as injured as he made it seem and that he simply jumped to the mat during Richie’s flurry.

We were wrong, and it was uncool of me to say that and jump to conclusions before Blake had a diagnosis on his knee. Again, they show me smiling and shaking my head.As I explained last week, this wasn’t directed towards Blake, I was shaking my head at Richie’s celebration.The fight simply looked bad and at the time, I really started getting down on Blake because I saw his fight as an embarrassment and I truly felt he was a physical liability.

We get to see the winning locker room where Matt Serra refers to Hughes as a “(expletive)” and the segment soon ends.I still speak with Blake more often than anyone else from the show, and he truly believes that if his knee didn’t go out on him like that, he would have beaten Richie, and I honestly don’t have any reason not to agree with him now….

http://www.ocregister.com/sports/danzig-tuf-ufc-1896853-welterweight-season