Ultimate Fighter 2 - Weeks 5 and 6
a mammoth workout session. At least three guys puke, and one pukes more than once. Matt makes a Marine Drill Sergeant look like a kindly grandma at Thanksgiving.
Rich Franklin on the other hand, joins his team for a "workout": they sit around soaking up some son, lounging around the pool.
The Week 6 team challenge is a doozy, taken from the training methods of Brazilian jujitsu guys. A heavy weight stands with his legs slightly bent, while a welterweight climbs onto his back. The welterweight must climb and maneuver himself around the heavyweight's body without any part of his body touching the floor. At high reps, it's murder on the welterweight's limbs -- especially his biceps and hamstrings. But it's absolute hell on the heavyweight's legs, back, and neck.
Matt selects Joe (welterweight) and Mike to represent his team. Then he proceeds with his SOP -- pushing Jorge's buttons. This week, Matt tells Jorge that he's all talk and no action and isn't ready for a fight. Joe joins in for a bit, but by the 100th circle, he's pretty exhausted. Drill Sgt. Hughes insists that Joe and Mike will lose the challenge unless they keep going. Jorge continues to be on the wrong end of some first-class bench jockeying, while Joe and Mike manage to do 200-plus circles without rest -- one hours and 40 minutes straight. Holy shitballs! Let's see a wussy professional baseball player do that! Heck, even a pair of NFL linebackers would have problems matching that accomplishment!
Coach Franklin corrrectly sees that winning the challenge would be a pyrrhic victory, and tells Jorge to forfeit the challenge. That makes it pyrrhic for Matt, Mike, and Joe: Joe and Mike are completely exhausted, worn out, and hurt; they have to skip training for several days. But Team Franklin is still completely fresh.
Matt chooses Jason to fight Jorge, and boy, Jorge can't wait to fight. Though the talk is of Matt miscalculating, he claims that it's part of a plan to aggravate Jorge and that he's never lost a fight he didn't mean to lose.
And, in truth, Jason looks to be sacrificial lamb. We know that Hughes hasn't been all that fond of Jason, and he admits as much. He doesn't believe Jason can necessarily beat Jorge, but sees it as a win-win situation -- either he gets rid of some dead weight from his team, or he eliminates one of Rich's
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