The MMA Digest

Photo: dragonslist.com

Coach on season 6 of The Ultimate Fighter, Matt Hughes, gives his thoughts on Wednesday’s episode of TUF 6:
One of the big concerns on last night’s show was Tommy’s cut, but to me it wasn’t a big deal. Tommy’s cut was definitely bad, but they gave him the most amount of time between fights as they could and I knew that the Athletic Commissions’ number one concern is safety. So I knew that if they let him fight it would be okay, because they would never have cleared him if the cut was that bad.

About Team Serra’s pranks in the house, I did know about it, just from the guys coming back and telling me. I thought some of it had to do with Serra just not being a good coach. He should have been telling his guys that they needed to relax.

I didn’t know anything about Ben Saunders being sick until this week’s show. So I don’t know how much they played up on that or what. It could have had nothing to do with the outcome of the fight or maybe it had everything to do with it.

But still, Tommy’s just so tough. Who would have thought that guy would have gotten out of all those submissions and done so well? It just shows how tough he is and his ‘never quit’ attitude. Tommy’s training with us right now because he fights at the finale, like every other fighter from the show (except for two as I mentioned last week).

For the semifinal picks, I knew what I wanted and I knew that I could get the match ups I wanted. Everybody had been talking about how good George was and how good Mac was and that the UFC was wanting both of those guys in the finals, so I knew I didn’t have to say much to get that. -Matt