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THE FUN HOUSE MIRROR EPISODE 33

Welcome back to the Fun House Mirror, the column that looks at an MMA show that has the feel of an old school territory professional wrestling show and a United States company that wants to put out a Lucha Libre influenced product.

Last week, The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) found itself in a strange dilemma.  After Dana White (DW) had promised an exciting season because the 155 pound weight division members will go all out, we had our second straight week of fights that were not very exciting at all (even though last week's fight was somewhat dramatic).

So, what will this week bring?  More "boring ass wrestling"?  Two guys who will gas quickly and both not be aggressive?  Or, will we get two guys who will get off their asses and jam?

Let's roll the footage and find out.

We start with a recap of last week's fight.  In the recap we learn that Bruce LeRoy was talking a lot of smack during the fight (mostly bleeped) and that this was not appreciated by some members of Team Koscheck.

We then get a debrief after the fight with Team GSP so that they can throw more footage of Mike Tyson in.

We then get some action from the Koscheck training camp as the fighters are apparently training hard.

Then we go back to the house and the Team Koscheck versus Alex situation is coming to a boil, as Jeffery Lentz and Sevak Magakian explain the situation to Michael Johnson.

Alex overhears this and mounts a spirited verbal defense.  The situation escalates and the censor's beeper gets a healthy workout.  This leads to Alex and Sevak throwing down, but a brawl is averted by a heads up play by Nam Phan who tackles Sevak to prevent him from being kicked off the show.

We then get some interaction between Koscheck and GSP and we find out that Josh considers GSP a "nerd".  Like Koscheck's hair really qualifies him to be a non-nerd?

Time for the next pick.  Will GSP try to protect his number two pick Johnathon Brookins (11-2)?

But, no!  GSP goes with Kyle Watson (13-6-1), his number five pick to fight Josh's number four pick, Andy Main (4-1).

Did Kyle convince GSP that he was ready?  Is GSP basing his picks on biorhythms?

This is a battle between the oldest guy in the house, Kyle, versus the youngest guy in the house, Andy.  Both are Jujitsu guys.

This pick pleases Josh a lot.

We then learn that Kyle is from the Randy Savage/Diamond Dallas Page school of fighting because he likes the big game plan and everything meticulously thought through.  His plan, apparently, is to beat up Andy on his feet and then get on top and use his Jujitsu to avoid getting submitted and to deliver more punishment.

We then get the most homoerotic segment to date as Koscheck greats GSP wearing a pair of speedos with his head gear down the front of his bottoms to mock GSP's habit of wearing speedos when he fights.

I would have loved to have Quinton "Rampage" Jackson do a run in and discuss Josh's fashion statement and butt scratching in depth.

Team Koscheck assistant coach Dave Camarillo watches some tape on Kyle and delivers a scouting report to Andy and discusses strategy.  One of the difficulties of being a veteran campaigner is that people have a chance to analyze your previous fights.  Will Kyle be able to reinvent himself to counter this?

Andy's game plan is to use his speed to win the stand up game and then get a take down.

Kyle makes weight at 155 while rocking some leopard print boxer shorts.  Koscheck makes a very heterosexual comment (not) about the size of Kyle's butt.

Andy also weighs in at 155 but sports some dark tight underwear.

Josh takes being down 0-2 very personally and tries to light a fire under Andy.

John Danaher, team GSP assistant coach, then gives a very fascinating analysis of the fight saying that both fighters are under a lot of psychological strain, Andy from being on an 0-2 team and Kyle from being the unofficial team leader.  John theorizes that if the fight goes long, then anxiety control could mean the difference between winning and losing.

To fight this anxiety they actually do dress rehearsals of the fight with Kyle, with Kyle walking to the ring, doing some take downs on GSP and then getting his hand raised.  Will this work?

And, it's fight time!

Both fighters come out.  Andy is bearing a sight resemblance to Chikara star Pinkie "Pink Ant" Sanchez.

The tale of the tape show that Kyle has a two in height advantage, is nine years older, and has had four times as many fights as Andy.

The first round is pretty good!  Andy dominates the striking early and winds up jumping on Kyle's back while Kyle is standing.  However, Kyle does not panic and meticulously controls Andy's wrist to get Andy to the ground and then works his Jujitsu to get on top.  Kyle continues working and has moves into side control as the round ends.

Will psychological factors now come into play?

The second round starts and Kyle still looks pretty bad in the stand up, but after about a minute Kyle shoots and gets a take down.  From here it's all downhill for Andy.  Kyle is very active, always looking to pass.  Kyle first get side control.  Andy gives up his back to try to stand but Kyle isn't buying it and tackles Andy back into half guard.  From there, Kyle passes him again and gets side control and then back control and a body triangle.  Andy is able to break the body triangle but Kyle sinks the hooks in and then finally sinks in a Rear Naked Choke for the tap out.

Josh is not pleased by this result and walks out of the room.  Josh theorizes that his fighter forgot the game plan, which was Sweep, Submit or Get up when he was on the ground.  I think it wasn't the case that Andy forgot the plan, I think it was a case where Kyle didn't cooperate with the game plan.

How will Chikara counter?

This week on the pod-cast-a-go-go we have high lights from Aniversario Zehn.

In the first match we have tag team action as the Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield & Sugar Dunkerton) take on the duo from the BDK of Daizee Haze & Tursas.  After enduring a beat down, Sugar makes a hot tag to Dasher.  Dasher calls the 375 behemoth Tursas into the ring and then goes to town on him with heavy strikes.  Dasher then throws his partner head first into Tursas' midsection which causes Tursas to get tied up in the ropes.  After some double team devastation by the throwbacks on Tursas Daizee is able to use her feminine wiles to distract Sugar which gives Tursas enough time to free himself and to pin Dasher with a flying body press.

From intrigue we then go to action overload with an Atomico match (four on four tag team) featuring two thirds of the team of F.I.S.T (Gran Akuma & Chuck Taylor) teaming with two thirds of The Unstable (Vin Gerard & Colin Delaney) to face Incoherence (Hallowicked & Frightmare) teaming with Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw.  This is your typical atomico match (love it or hate it) where you have a long sequence of people running in and hitting finishers.

Some of the highlights include Colin getting mad heal heat for singing the opening bars of John Cena's entrance theme while hitting the Attitude Adjuster, Gran Akuma hitting the Cheetah Slice, Chuck hitting Sole Food, and Mike hitting the Swanton bomb.

So, another cool week of action.  TUF returns to form this week with a "scientific classic" match where the grizzled veteran kept getting the worst of it standing up against a high spirited lightning fast rookie, but then used his "scientific wrestling skill" to control the match on the ground and eventually wore his opponent out enough to catch him in a submission hold.  As a pro wrestling storyline it was an oldie but a goodie.

Let's hope that next week gives us some more of the same.