Comments on: 5 Oz. of Pain on CBS Sports: TUF’s all-time top ten

By: THORAZINE

THORAZINE — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:46:32 +0000

Crap! How could I forget Jeremy May!…lol… yup, I’ll remove Jason Thacker… and substitute Jeremy May.

By: Sonny

Sonny — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:27:04 +0000

I’ll nominate Jeremy May for being an immature, sandbagging, attention whore who bit off more than he could chew (no pun intended) when he messed with Matt Brown.

Then he tries to get Jesse Taylor’s oafish ass thrown off and Taylor’s dumb enough to fall for that trap, except he had his housemates holding him back.

By: joetheacupuncturist

joetheacupuncturist — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:41:17 +0000

Thorazine, you dont have Mikey Burnett on there. He has to be on any TUF bottom 10 list. I know its mean but its true. I think there are too many bad fighters for a bottom 10. It should be a bottom 25.

By: THORAZINE

THORAZINE — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:15:47 +0000

My bottom 10 list ‘for whatever reason’ not in any paritcular order.

1. Joey ‘little bitch’ Scarola – TUF 6
2. Jermey ‘Rapist’ Jackson – TUF 4
3. Andy ‘I’m a Warrior!’ Wang -TUF 5
4. Noah ‘I luv her’ Inhofer – TUF 3
5. Gabe ‘Colonic’ Rutegar – TUF 5
6. Jason ‘Strange Brew’ Thacker TUF 1
7. Danny ‘I’m UFC Fighter!’ Abbadi – TUF 3
8. Wayne ‘Too Nice’ Weebs – TUF 5
9. Blake ‘No Chest’ Bowman TUF 6
10. Marlon ‘Bullshit’ Sims TUF 5

Honorable mention

Kenny ‘Who?’ Stevens TUF 2

By: Jye

Jye — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:13:40 +0000

Jeremy Jackson wasn’t a bad fighter though. I give him cred for picking up like that but it seriously wasn’t worth the price he paid

By: joetheacupuncturist

joetheacupuncturist — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:13:12 +0000

Jeremy Jackson. he should have been on my list too. I think he is in jail for rape if im correct

By: Mike Wolfe

Mike Wolfe — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:04:38 +0000

Who was the guy in one of the later years–3? 4?–who got kicked off for going over the wall to hook up with a female lifeguard he’d met earlier in the day? I can’t recall the guy’s name, but part of his back story was that he’d been living or had lived out of his car and had no job. Always wondered what happened to that guy, and whether the lifeguard was worth it.

By: joetheacupuncturist

joetheacupuncturist — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:32:13 +0000

btw, ionhoffer was the dude with the glasses who left because og his girlfriends neediness

By: joetheacupuncturist

joetheacupuncturist — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:31:32 +0000

the first season was pretty bad in hindsight. the challenges sucked and there was only a few good fights and even the bonner/forrest finale wasnt that good as far as being pure mma/chess match stuff, it was a great great muay thai match but not really mma. the fighters were amazing though

By: mike wolfe

mike wolfe — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:27:27 +0000

I recorded the season 1 marathon and have watched about half of it. In retrospect it’s a little hard to understand why the show was such a success. Leben was a dysfunctional, binge drinking wreck, and Diego was a thorough db. And the eliminations from the challenges were feeble. Glad they changed that.

By: Rich S.

Rich S. — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:17:29 +0000

ok, i’m sure if you put faces with some of those names, i’d remember them, but seriously, ionhoffer?
does NOT ring a bell at all..

By: joetheacupuncturist

joetheacupuncturist — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:01:21 +0000

u watched every season and dont know thise guys? comon’ your just not trying now

By: Rich S.

Rich S. — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:45:55 +0000

ok, the fact that the names: kenny stevens, bowman, weems, ionhoffer, and scorola don’t even ring a bell to me justifies their spots in the bottom 10..
i’ve watched every season all the way through, and i’m not familiar with those names..

i’d say you should add solomon hutcherson to the bottom 10, but, he seems to do pretty good in his fights OUTSIDE of the UFC..

By: joetheacupuncturist

joetheacupuncturist — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:02:43 +0000

May was totally posterized in that fight with Matt Brown. but the Bottom 11 ( hehe-i couldnt help myself) has to have, in no particular order :

Thaker
Kenny Stevens
Jessie Forbes
Mikey Burnett
Reutegar
bowman
Dorian prince
Scorola
Ionhoffer
Weems
Andy Wang

By: Rich S.

Rich S. — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:32:47 +0000

hey, despite being somewhat of a douche, Jeremy May wasn’t a bad fighter.. i liked that guy..

By: Bad Monkey

Bad Monkey — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:14:54 +0000

I’ll vote Jeremy May and Kalib Starnes in for bottom 10, oh, and that guy who went home early b/c he though his girlfriend was cheating on him, Noah something I think. What a fag.

By: Bo Jangles

Bo Jangles — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:44:49 +0000

Cathedron, you’re a tit.

I would have called both the Hammil and Rashad fights with Bisping as draws – they were both super close. You’re just mad because you want to see a Hollywood ending with deaf boy kicking everyone’s ass.

By: joetheacupuncturist

joetheacupuncturist — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:23:55 +0000

Sam, Top 10 is pretty easy to guess most of the dudes there, but what would really be really sweet would be a bottom 10.

By: Rich S.

Rich S. — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:58:22 +0000

I’d have to put Diego above Jardine..
and i’d like to see Stevenson just a little bit higher.. I know that with the other fighters that are on the list, it’d be hard to move stevenson higher, but, he’s only lost twice in the UFC.. the first one was his debut fight, against Josh freakin’ Neer, and he almost finished that fight in the first round.. and the second, a loss to BJ PENN.. other than those losses to top level competition, he stacked up wins over great opponents in Dokonjonosuke, Yves Edwards, Melvin Guillard, and Kurt Pellegrino.. those are all top guys [maybe not Doko, but, you feel me ]

the list is good though..

By: Cathedron

Cathedron — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:54:50 +0000

Good article. TUF is still a little weird to me. It’s such a gimmick to me. It gives young fighters a chance that they often don’t deserve and turns them into little more than filler fighters who can never hang with the A-level talent. And yet, a few of them have really grown into the sport and become some of the biggest names in the UFC (some are still growing).

Nothing is going to make me like Bisping, though. At best, he’s a B-level fighter who would be relegated to Fight Night events, except the UFC needs him as their star in the UK so they’ve mostly fed him cans and let him headline shows (though one could argue that the UK shows are smaller than Fight Night shows). Still, his few serious opponents have resulted in a loss and a totally undeserved decision win.