I’ll admit that I was expecting two hours of boring and cheesy TUF commentary on Spike TV last night. That is until I saw a bruised Forrest Griffin and and his TUF co-pilot Stephan Bonnar as the shows’ two co-hosts. This should be a good time for all. We have the two goofiest light heavyweights in the organization discussing the best moments in the show that they helped to propel into the mainstream. We’ll talk more about their role in the history of TUF on the second part of this article. On to the Top 25!
25: Season 1 - Chris “The Crippler” Leben decides he is going to get drunk enough to urinate all over another bed. He heartedly calls it a “spritz” and makes sure that it’s rubbed into the sheets before the victim returns to his bed.
24: Season 4 - Shonie Carter wants to train with the other team and jumps into their van uninvited. He proceeds to drop the F bomb about 27 times mostly in the phrase “I don’t give a fuck” for apparently no reason. Mr. International shows how us to be dumb on television.
23: Season 4 - Mikey Burnett thinks he is a football player and runs into a wall of the TUF house repeatedly. Awesome! Sorta. I guess…
22: Season 3 - The start of the Bisping/Hamill hate parade begins when Michael Bisping feels like Matt Hamill is getting more attention from coach Tito Ortiz. Bisping gets sloppy drunk and proceeds to act like a moron about the whole situation.
21: Season 3 - The countdown to UFC 75 begins although neither fighter knows it yet. Matt Hamill has to leave the TUF house due to an injury
20: Season 2 - The fight between Edwin DeWee and Gideon Ray is not for the faint of heart. Ray has opened up a nice cut on DeWee’s head and blood is pouring out. As the fight rages on, both fighters, the mat, and Ray’s mouth is covered in blood. Yummy!
19: Season 3: This episode proves that you don’t want to he best person to pass out in the TUF house or your eyebrows might be missing in the morning. A reminder of college living at it’s best.
18: Season 3: Ken Shamrock verbally battles with his team over his training techniques. The fighters are complaining that they are hurt and Shamrock is countering with the ole’ “if we don’t train hard enough, you guys will complain that we aren’t training enough” talk. It wasn’t very exciting.
17: Season 4 - Matt Serra is not a happy camper when opposing assistant jiu-jitsu coach Mark Laiman proceeds to ridicule Royce Gracie after the Brazilian lost to TUF coach Matt Hughes. Serra ripped Laiman apart and told him that he would never be a fighter. Ouch.
16: Season 5 - “Do you know who I am?” asks Karo Parisyan after he attempts to act like a moron (and I’m a Parisyan fan) while threatening Nate Diaz. I’m still not sure how this all happened, but it was a pretty foolish thing for everyone involved.
15: Season 2 - Joe Stevenson and Mike Whitehead perform 204 reps of the Scarecrow, a jiu-jitsu training exercise, in a challenge to pick the next two fighter to battle on the show. While Stevenson and Whitehead are slowly injuring themselves, Jorge Gurgel tries trashing talking Stevenson and gets mad when his coach, Rich Franklin, immediately forfeits. The clip ends with Whitehead and Stevenson being taken away due to massive muscle cramping. Nice!
14: Season 3 - With Matt Hamill out of the TUF competition due to injury, Dana looks for a replacement fighter. Both Tait Fletcher and Kristian Rothaermel decline for different reasons and Dana is stunned. Dumb fighters. Luckily Ross Pointon was up to the challenge of losing to Michael Bisping.
13: Season 5 - Ah yes, Gabe Ruediger - Mr. Drama himself. With his upcoming fight against Cory Hill only a day away, Ruediger decides he doesn’t want to cut weight and puts on a poorly acted show instead. Fainting, whining, and lying naked on the edge of a pool make this episode one of the worst in history. In the process, Gray Maynard calls him a “pain in the ass” and Manny Gamburyan says “he was just a douche bag.”
If you missed the show and you are interested enough to hear more about TUF, check back soon for the final 12 Top 25 TUFFEST Moments from Spike TV here on MMA Opinion.
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