Is it TUF season again already? I will do my best blogging the draft episode as this show moves pretty fast. I’m pretty excited both to see Ronda and Miesha, but also because it will be a cool dynamic to see men and women in the same house.
Let’s get started with the TUF episode 1 recap.
Ronda comes into the gym and Miesha joins her. Ronda doesn’t understand why Miesha is on the show. Miesha won’t tell her why and tells her to talk to Dana and Ronda immediately starts to get frustrated. Dana tells them both that Cat Zingano hurt herself and was in surgery and Ronda exclaimed relief. She thought she was losing her spot or something.
1. Jessamyn Duke vs. Laura Howarth
Duke and Howarth both rolled around on the ground, but Duke sunk in a triangle to submit her late in the first round. She has long legs and tapped her out.
Winner: Duke via submission
2. Danny Martinez vs. David Grant
Grant hit Martinez with an illegal elbow. Grant seemed to get comfortable with the distance quickly and Martinez was lunging a lot.
On the ground, Grant threw a knee while Martinez was on all fours. A point was taken away which evened the fight. Didn’t matter as Grant got an arm bar for the win.
Winner: Grant via submission
3. Revelina Berto vs. Jessica Rakoczy
This was only in highlight form. Rakoczy got out of a few submissions before shoulder locking her.
Winner: Rakoczy via submission
4. Michael Wooten vs. Emil Hartsner
This was also in clip form. Dana said that it sucked.
Winner: Michael Wooten via decision
5. Peggy Morgan vs. Bethany Marshall
Morgan stopped her quite easily with punches. Morgan is the biggest 135’er according to Miesha.
Winner: Peggy Morgan
6. Valerie Letourneau vs. Roxanne Modafferi
Modafferi got her back and choked her out, which was a bit of a surprise considering she said she was on a five fight losing stream.
Winner: Modafferi via submission
7. Tim Gorman vs. Lee Sandmeier
Sandmeier is hearing impaired.
Gorman took him down immediately, got his back, sunk his hooks, flattened Sandmeier out and started railing down on him. Sandmeier turned over and took more of a beating with Gorman mounting him. Sandmeier turned on his stomach and it was stopped.
Winner: Gorman via submission
8. Tonya Evinger vs. Raquel Pennington
Pennington is a boxer, yet choked out Evinger who is actually one of the women I’d heard of before.
Winner: Pennington via submission
9. Chris Beal vs. Sirwan Kakai
They only showed clips of this one, but Beal looked excellent with his striking. He had trouble on the ground though.
Winner: Beal by decision
10. Josh Hill vs. Patrick Holohan
More clips, which seemed to be a good idea. Hill just kept taking Holohan down.
Winner: Hill by decision
11. Colleen Schneider vs. Shayna Baszler
Baszler is actually someone I’ve seen before. Not sure why Baszler is even in this tournament. She should already be on the roster. It took a little while, but she strong-womaned Schneider to the ground and just had her way with her. Schneider squirmed out but went down again. Baszler sunk the arm bar in and finished her.
Winner: Baszler via submission
12. Louis Fisette vs. Chris Holdsworth
Fisette was cocky and admitted to not training all that hard. He also lives with his dad and doesn’t pay rent. Holdsworth trains with Team Alpha Male. Fisette was tough fighting off submissions, but he eventually tapped to an arm triangle. Fisette is probably better than some of the winners even though he lost.
Winner: Holdsworth via submission
13. Julianna Pena vs. Gina Mazany
This was in highlights, but Pena looked like a beast. She seemed to just beat on her for two rounds.
Winner: Pena via decision
14. Matt Munsey vs. Anthony Gutierrez
Seemed like Gutierrez had the upper hand for most of it, but couldn’t finish Munsey.
Winner: Gutierrez via decision
15. Tara LaRosa vs. Sarah Moras
Moras was immediately cracked in the face, but took LaRosa down and had her in some submissions and won the decision.
Winner: Moras via decision
16. Rafael De Freitas vs. Cody Bollinger
Bollinger was ferocious, but kept sticking his head into submissions; first a triangle and then a guillotine. He tried powering through them.
In the second, he tee’d off on De Freitas who just stood there tired with his back against the cage. Bollinger finished him.
Winner: Bollinger via TKO
Ronda wins the coin flip but she wants first fight so Miesha gets the first pick.
Here’s how the selections went:
Miesha: Julianna Pena
Ronda: Shayna Baszler
Miesha: Sarah Moras
Ronda: Jessamyn Duke
Miesha: Raquel Pennington
Ronda: Peggy Morgan
Miesha: Roxanne Modafferi
Ronda: Jessica Rakoczy
Miesha: Cody Bollinger
Ronda: Chris Beal
Miesha: Chris Holdsworth
Ronda: David Grant
Miesha: Josh Hill
Ronda: Anthony Gutierrez
Miesha: Tim Gorman
Ronda: Michael Wooten
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