Ultimate Fighter 2 - Week 3

But as Rob goes to the ground, Brad shows very little in the way of skill -- or speed. This guy moves slowly. Rob passes Brad's guard at will, achieving side mount, 180 mount, and total mount with very little trouble. Too bad he doesn't know how to attack on the ground. At one point Rob manages to get the beginnings of a guillotine choke on Brad, but Brad, who has a very thick neck and is quite strong, muscles out of it. Rob seems to lose focus at this point, and Brad is able to achieve a top position (albeit in Rob's guard.) Because of the size differential, despite only being in guard, Brad manages to do an effective ground and pound, inflicting some heavy head shots on Rob. Then he gets swept, but slowly, methodically, and laboriously, gets his legs around Rob's neck and shoulders and applies a textbook triangle choke. Rob submits with little fuss or muss. Winner: Brad.

In the aftermath of the fight, Rob, despite his earlier promises -- blames his arm for the loss. To be fair, a close-up shot does show that some of Rob's bicep muscle fibers have detached from the shoulder region and have visibly contracted into a little bump in the middle of his upper arm. But that guillotine wouldn't have held, no matter what the state of Rob's arm had been. The fight doctor is fairly certain surgery will be needed, but before he leaves, Rob makes the rounds again to tell everyone just how tough he is, even though he's in a lot of pain. The speech is a blend between the "Win one for the Gipper" speech and Gloria Gaynor's disco hit "I Will Survive".

At one point, Rob is heard saying, "I don't want to whine like a woman, but it really hurts and I have to leave the competition." [Personal note to Rob: When women whine about pain, in my book, they have a right to do so, because they can endure childbirth. Your arm hurts, I get it. But it doesn't hurt like, say, a knife in the gut, or a 9-pound object coming out of a tiny opening. So don't compare yourself to a woman -- you'll lose.]

Rob's speeches are met with a lot of eye-rolling, some discrete (on the part of the guys) and some not

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