The show started when Rampage brought in former training partner and previous TUF winner Michael “the count” Bisping, to talk to his fighters, give them some inspiration and train with them. He gave them the advice to not get into trouble at the house, don’t drink, get all your sleep in and train hard. Will the fighters listen to this advice?? Nah I don’t think so!

 

During the fight selection Team Forrest retains control of the pick and they chose Dante Rivera (Team Forrest) Vs Brandon Sene (Team Rampage)  Rampage is extremely frustrated with his teams losing streak so far, but has faith that this fighter will pull through for the team. However, Brandon is a definite underdog in this fight and the question of whether he can pull off a win for his team can’t be answered with confidence. As much as I really enjoy Rampage as a fighter, I personally believe that his lack of coaching experience is coming into play. The coaching he yells from the corner during a fight is just a bit ridiculous. In the first fight of this season, for example, Rampage yelled continuously to his fighter to stand up, well rampage HOW WOULD YOU LIKE HIM TO DO THAT? Forrest yells specific directions to his fighters, telling them step by step how to do each move.

 

Team Forrest used a really smart tactic of looking at forests notes from the qualifying fights in an attempt to know what Brandon will be doing in the fight. In previous seasons the coaches haven’t had the opportunity to do this, but during the qualifying fights of this season the coaches had the opportunity to make notes on each individual fighter, not knowing at this point who would be on their team. Unfortunately I don’t think that Rampage made very detailed notes if any about most of the fighters, as he joked in the first few episodes saying “oh I might actually write notes on this guy”.

 

The Fight:

The first round of the fight was really close and could’ve gone either way. Dante had a big take down and a submission attempt, but Brandon was throwing a lot of knees to the legs and body as well as landing a number of punches. At the end of the round both coaches were telling their fighter that they had won that round. If it were up to me to decide I would have to give that round to Team Rampage. He appeared to do more damage.

The second round I would definitely give to Team Rampage. He clearly landed the most punches, had a nice sweep and ended the round strongly on top, landing short elbows and punches to the head.

The judges must have given the first round to team Forrest as the fight went to a third and final round to decide the winner. At the end of the fight I was absolutely SHOCKED that team Forrest won this fight. There is absolutely NO WAY that he won that fight. He barely even threw a punch. Extremely bad judging in my  opinion and Dana White agreed. Although Dana did say something that I’d have to agree with, neither of these fighters had an impressive performance, you definitely didn’t watch this fight and say “thank god we have these two in the UFC” haha

 

After the fight Quinton went on a Rampage (haha) and honestly I don’t blame him at all. He said that he has had his anger under control, but  now it’s starting to come back. I guess losing 3-0 so far will do that to a guy!

 

The best quote of the night however was when Rampage stated “I used to go to anger management classes, but they made me angry” LOL

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