They decided Aaron Wilkinson would take on Marc Stevens for the wild card spot. Wilkinson lost two GSP's Michael Johnson in episode 3 by Rear Naked Choke at the end of the third. No one saw reason why Wilkinson shouldn't have had a shot at competing again. The Brit showed tenacity and heart in his last match and came up just short against the most athletic competitor on the show.
Marc Stevens however, was tapped out in record time by Cody McKenzie last week, 17 seconds into the first round. Somehow, Dana White decided that he deserved a shot over Dane Sayers who fought like a mad man, being a huge underdog, and losing a decision that could have gone his way with just a bit of touch up on his techniques. Regardless, the wild card round was set.
The episode opened to Koscheck messing around with Brad Tate, the "EMT" employed by GSP for some reason. No one seems to know exactly why he's there. Kos is convinced GSP pays this guy to egg him on, and even though it's far fetched, not impossible.
Anyway. They're talking smack back and forth between doorways of the dressing rooms, when Kos makes it personal by sticking to his 'male nurse' insult as well as physical, attacking Tate with a plunger. I won't lie, it was hilarious. I probably woke my neighbors up by laughing.
After this altercation, the show continues to the weigh in. Where both teams are sitting there, and Tate begins talking smack again to Kos. However, one of Kos' fighters gets involved, and when Tate insults him, Kos flips his lid, and goes to attack this guy. When both teams get in on the action, it looks like one of those funny baseball pile ups where the Umpire gets into a fight with the manager, and then before you know it, there's a big group of pin stripes, cleats, flying fists spit and ass everywhere.
Well the situation calms down after Dane Sayers freaks out at Koscheck and storms out, angry that he got hit in the face. Koscheck feels kinda bad, and walks after him to apologize, with GSP close behind saying "Don't worry aboudit, Josh, I godit. I am unimpress' wid joor berfoormance"
When everything is cool again, the weigh in goes down and both fighters make weight. The stage is set for the wild card fight!
The first round starts, Stevens and Wilkinson square up and do a little bit of the feeling-out thing. Little jabs and inside front leg kicks here and there, and right when the fight starts to heat up, Stevens gets a perfect double leg take down
The rest of the round is pretty much Stevens almost locking in submissions, and Wilkinson surviving. Nam Phan who was cornering Wilkinson should probably stick to fighting, as he was calling out all sorts of things that Stevens could hear and work off of. Near the end of the first Wilkinson started scoring some ground and pound, but nothing major. Point wise Stevens takes it by a mile.
Round two began and this time Wilkinson decided that Boxing Day came early this year, and in the United States too. (Boxing Day is the day after Christmas in the U.K. where all Brits young and old fist fight. I wish I could make that up.)
bang bang biatch!
Right when he had a chance, Stevens goes back to his wrasslin' roots, and this time when he gets to the ground, Wilkinson guillotines him. OOPS! Right after he taps, the show cut immediately to his post fight interview and he shrugged and said "Maybe I should work on my guillotine defense..."
NO DIP, EINSTEIN!!! He got beat twice with this technique, it's embarassing. Dana White said so.
So Wilkinson advances to the quarter finals, and Stevens makes excuses about altitude and weight cut. Guess what bruh bruh, I train too. I'm 5000 feet up and I've lost about 30 pounds in the last two months, and yo, my game has come a long long way. So there.
Now the coaches get together again with Dana and decide the quarter final match ups. They come up with Brookins vs. Chivitchian, Nam Phan vs. Cody McKenzie (this is crap. i wanted to see these two in the finals. i guess next week will rock so hard because they're going to tear it up, but man, that would have been illmatic to see in the finale. I think Phan will come away with a decision) Kyle Watson vs. Aaron Wilkinson, and the big one everyone wants to see, is Bruce Leroy, the perennial black sheep of the house vs. Michael Johnson, the early favorite of the season. Leading up to that match up, GSP had his team write down names of people who they would want to fight on their own team. Everyone said Bruce Leroy! HA! Bruce Leroy (who's real name is Alex Caceres) signed his own trip ticket home by wanting to fight Michael Johnson, who is pretty obviously going to take him to school.
But we'll have to wait and find out, as this weeks episode comes to an end and I'm left sitting on my recliner getting way too pumped to see Nam Phan fight next week against Cody...
In other news, I won't get to watch it happen on TV because I will be in Tucson picking up my lovely girlfriend. Oh well, I have to balance my love life with my...other love life. Just kidding. But really...(Disclaimer: Don't get me wrong, my girlfriend is more important to me than MMA. I'm just being difficult because I know she reads this.)
Stay tuned for more writing, I'll try to eek out some sick posts in between Marine Ball practice and working. Thanks for reading, and see yinz at Black Out (you know who you are!)
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