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Kolosci on episode 11

Posted 29 Nov 2007 in John Kolosci, The Ultimate Fighter 6

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John Kolosci gives his views on last night’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter last night in his blog:

We are now into Week 11 and the season is coming to an end. We get to see the final quarterfinal match-up between Ben Saunders and Tommy Speer. We started off with a nice recap of last weeks fights, which put Matt Arroyo and George Sotiropoulos into the semi-finals. Both guys showed their submission skills and used them to move on in the competition.

Troy, Richie and War all decided to stay home from practice and drink a little bit. Again, we were not chided for messing up the house, but the “Upper Decker” was taking it a bit too far. It was quite inconsiderate and if someone on Team Hughes did that in my bathroom, I would have reacted the same way as JRoc. I was quite open about my opinion and definitely let them know it was wrong. Danzig was mad for quite a while about this one, whereas JRoc was over it about an hour later and was actually laughing about the whole thing. War and JRoc are actually good friends now and do keep in touch. Sick stuff, but it was very late in the season and everyone was losing it on some level. FYI: In case anyone was wondering, Danzig did not think very highly of Hightower. I just thought I’d clear that up…

Ben Saunders was an impressive fighter and definitely a handful for anyone in the house. He had some really good high kicks, quick hands and he was slick on the ground. His diet was impeccable. Tommy Speer is a good wrestler and tough as nails. His diet was less than perfect. We actually caught Tommy eating raw Turkey Bacon. He would pull strips right out of the package and put it on bread with mayonnaise! We seen this and were like “dude, you have to cook that stuff!” He looks at it and states that he’s been eating it like that for a few days and never got sick, so he thinks its fine, and continues to eat it. His other favorite meal was just plain mayonnaise sandwiches and he never eats vegetables. It really makes you wonder if diet is truly all that important? An interesting match-up to say the least.

This should have been a special rules handicap match! Both guys were in bad shape. Tommy had all the damage from the last fight and was worried about being cleared by the commission. He was laying in the living room everyday with ice packs on his face. He just kept saying: “I’ll be fine”. That’s the spirit Tommy Boy! Ben, on the other hand, had a broken nose and couldn’t breathe through it at all. His SNORING was an absolute testament to that statement. If you didn’t fall asleep first, you were up forever! I’ve never heard such snoring in my life. I would love to take him camping with me, as no bear would dare come around a campsite with that commotion going on! Then, Ben wakes up the morning on the fight feeling horrible. He was sick as a dog and was begging the staff to take him to the hospital for an IV. He had cramps, a headache and flu-like symptoms. He had no luck getting approved for an IV, but there was no way anyone was keeping him out of that cage. The kid is a fighter and loves to compete.

Tommy wins another hard fought decision. No one could believe he did not tap from the arm bar. I guess it looked much worse than it really was. It looked like it was going to snap, but not according to Tommy because he didn’t feel anything pop. Tommy survived a couple submissions and ground-n-pounded his way to a decision victory. Ben was absolutely gassed much earlier than he normally would have been, due to being sick and not being able to breathe through his nose. He hung in there like a trooper and did what he could to fend off the attack, but Tommy was just too much. So, Tommy is the final guy to make it to the Semi-Finals.

The coaches sat with Dana to pick the match-ups and they chose Danzig to fight Arroyo and Sotiropoulos to fight Speer. Danzig and Sotiropoulos were considered the two top dogs in the house, so I believe they were meant to be separated, to be allowed the chance to fight each other in the finals. Now, they all get one week to heal up and train before the fights, which occurred on our last day there. BUT, next weeks preview reveals that someone cannot continue? Who could it be? Who will be the replacement? Very interesting turn of events!