The Ultimate Fighter 14: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller
Episode 3
Meet the Cast:
Coaches
TEAM MILLER
Jason Miller
Ryan Parsons
Danny Perez
Kamarudeen Usman
Melchor Menor
TEAM BISPING
Michael Bisping
Kingsley Carter
Enzo Esposito
Tiki Ghosn
Brady Fink
Fighters
Bantamweights
John Albert
Johnny Bedford
Carson Beebe
Roland Delorme
T.J. Dillashaw
John Dodson
Casey Dyer
B.J. Ferguson
Josh Ferguson
Louis Gaudinot
Matt Jaggers
Tateki Matsuda
Paul McVeigh
Brandon Merkt
Dustin Pague
Orville Smith
Featherweights
Stephen Bass
Dennis Bermudez
Diego Brandao
Marcus Brimage
Bryan Caraway
Josh Clopton
Hamid Akira Corassani
Karsten Lenjoint
Eric Marriott
Micah Miller
Dustin Neace
Jesse Newell
Brian Pearman
Jimmie Rivera
Steven Siler
Bryson Wailehua-Hansen
FADE IN: We start off with Mayhem's team in the gym. He's confident that his team will win. He offers the suggestion that one should defend themselves at all times in the cage…and then proceeds to have a noodle fight with his team.
Bisping retaliates against Mayhem by taking the tires off of his car and putting them in his locker room. Mayhem has a good laugh at this.
Bisping's team is in training. He asks them to go at about 60% and they promptly ignore. Akira is annoyed that his teammates aren't controlling themselves. Brimage and Brandao start going at as well. Brandao threatens to kill Brimage and that is Brimage's cue to go find something else to do. They eventually hug it out.
COMMERCIAL
We move on to the house. The focus is on Akira. He's somebody who will do anything (including a shot in the nuts with a cue ball) for a gag. He's also a bit of a prankster. We see him playing various pranks on his housemates.
Next up is the fight announcement. Johnny Bedford is chosen to take on Josh Ferguson for the bantamweights. Ferguson antagonizes Bedford and Ferguson has to stop himself from murderizing him during the face off.
Mayhem's team is in the gym…and that's when they realize they've been punked by Akira. He may have inadvertently motivated all of Team Mayhem to make sure they decimate Team Bisping. However, Bedford has a problem with his hand that may be costly come fight time.
COMMERCIAL
Back at the house Akira is setting up a water bucket to fall on someone from Miller's team. Back in the gym, Bisping tells us that despite Ferguson's size, he packs a wallop. Ferguson has always been an underdog and people tend to underestimate him…once. Bisping wants Ferguson to not make the same mistakes as Brimage.
The water bucket misses Neace, barely. Neace is pissed and so he opts to mess with Akira's bed. Akira confronts Neace thinking that messing with ones bed is over the line. Neace says that all is fair in love and pranks. Akira and Neace vow to destroy one another first chance they get.
COMMERCIAL
Despite John D being on Team Miller, his friends are all guys on Team Bisping. They are Gaudinot and Brandao.
In the locker room before the weigh-ins, rumor has it that Bedford's hand still hurts. Furthermore, he may not use his hand all that much. However, Bisping encourages Ferguson to stay with the game plan. After the official weigh-ins Bisping taunts Bedford about his hand. He insists that the demise of Team Mayhem begins with the destruction of Johnny Bedford.
Bedford and Ferguson both claim that fighting is all they've got and thus they will do whatever it takes to become the Ultimate Fighter.
COMMERCIAL
Johnny Bedford VS Josh Ferguson
Round 1: Ferguson plants a few punches on the chin of Bedford. Ferguson attempts a standing guillotine (of sorts). Bedford takes Ferguson down. He ground and pounds from guard and then lets Ferguson up. Though Bedford is jabbing, Ferguson is getting more punches off faster. Bedford clinches and pushes Ferguson against the fence. Ferguson takes a knee in the body before breaking free. Bedford gets another takedown. Bedford passes guard and gets side control. Bedford struggles for the armbar but gets reversed. They scramble and stand back up. Bedford pushes Ferguson against the fence but Ferguson attempts another standing guillotine. Bedford absorbs a few strikes but tackles Ferguson one more time to end the round.
SCORECARD: Bedford
COMMERCIAL
Round 2: The two fighters trade strikes. Both men continue to fade in and out of the pocket hammering the other with punches and kicks. Bedford gets another takedown. Bedford works over Ferguson from guard. Ferguson looks exhausted. Ferguson attempts a guillotine but can't hold it. Bedford is in half guard. Bedford lays into Ferguson with an elbow but that give Bedford the opportunity to escape. Not that it matters because he's tackled once more by Bedford. Bedford has side control. Ferguson moves him back to half guard. Both men throw light punches to the torso. Bedford smashes Ferguson with elbows. That's the end.
SCORECARD: Bedford
Winner: Johnny Bedford by Unanimous Decision.
Bedford is disappointed he didn't finish his opponent but he'll live with the win. Ferguson states that he did what he had to do…considering that he lost by unanimous decision this statement confuses me. Mayhem apologizes to Team Bisping as he believes their coach is failing them.
NEXT WEEK ON TUF: Dodson is a mole. Someone whines that Bisping is too hard on them and we have two fights in one episode.
Until the next episode, be well be safe and behave!
For your convenience, here are the teams as they stand now (color coded for easy reading):
TEAM MILLER
John Dodson
Bryan Caraway
Johnny Bedford
Dustin Pague
Roland Delorme
Dennis Bermudez
Dustin Neace
Steven Siler
TEAM BISPING
Louis Gaudinot
Marcus Brimage
TJ Dillashaw
John Albert
Josh Ferguson
Diego Brandao
Akira Corassani
Stephen Bass
KEY: Fighters with name crossed out have been eliminated from the competition.
