The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Episode 3

The Ultimate Fighter 8- Episode 3 Re-Cap
Team Noguiera vs. Team Mir

This is Week Three but only Week One of the fighters being in the house. Two fighters have “fractured noses”- Karn Grigoryan and Brian McLaughlin.

Team Selection starts off the show:

Dana calls out Brian and Karn and says that the Nevada State Athletic Commission has put them on a 180 day suspension. So he has to send them home. They brought back Kyle Kingsbury and they said that the 155 pounder that they want has to be flown back so they agree that he will be the last pick of the show. Mir wins choice of first fighter or first fighter. He chooses first fighter.

First Pick- Krzysztof Soszynski (Team Mir)- He was my #1 Light Heavyweight
Second Pick- Ryan Bader (Team Nog)

Here are the picks for each team in order of how they were chosen. All the Light Heavyweights were chosen first, not sure if this is how it was planned or not.

Team Mir:
Krzysztof Soszysnki- LH
Vinny Magalhaes- LH
Eliot Marshall- LH
Tom Lawlor- LH
Junie Browning- LW
Shane Nelson- LW
Dave Kaplan- LW
George Roop- LW

Team Nog:
Ryan Bader- LH
Shane Primm- LH
KyleKingsbury- LH
Jules Bruchez- LH
Phillipe Nover- LW
Efrain Escudero- LW
John Polakowski- LW
Mystery 155lb (will be on the show later)

Team Nog gets to pick the first fight. Back in the house and Junie seems to be getting drunk and getting everybody stirred up. Krzysztof calls Junie the “Chris Leben” of this show, says he might even be worse. Junie breaks stuff and he’s lying down near the pool breaking down and crying and some of the guys carry him back into the house.

And the Mystery Fighter is…Roli Delgado.

Team Nog gets to pick the first fight. He picks Ryan Bader against Tom Lawlor. These are two of my top Light Heavyweights so it looks like we are starting off with a decent fight. Lawlor is from American Top Team. Bader was a two-time All American wrestler from Arizona State. Both guys are good wrestlers.

Krzysztof says it’s time to mess around with the other team so he gets some of the guys from Team Mir together and they get some shrink wrap and shrink wrap all of Ryan Bader’s underwear and socks to his bed. They also got all of Team Nog’s underwear together and shrink wrapped it into a big ball and they tape it to the diving board.

Both guys make weight. Noguiera and his coaches came over for dinner at the house and eats and plays pool with his team.

Light Heavyweight Fight: Tom Lawlor (4-1-1) (Team Mir) vs. Ryan Bader (7-0) (Team Nog)

R1- Bader went for a couple of take downs early but was denied and they did some dirty boxing for a second. Bader landed a good right. Bader then got a take down in under a minute and landed in half guard. Bader landed some shots from this position but Lawlor got back up to his feet. Lawlor came in at him and Bader basically speared him and took him down. Once again Bader in half guard. Bader with some short elbows and punches. Bader postured up and landed a big overhand right on Lawlor and knocked him out. Great showing by Bader as IMO going into the fight I thought these were going to be two of the better Light Heavyweights in the house.

Winner: Ryan Bader by KO R1

Light Heavyweight Rankings:
1. Krzysztof Soszynski
2. Ryan Bader
3. Jules Bruchez
4. Eliot Marshall
5. Shane Primm
6. Vinny Magalhaes
7. Kyle Kingsbury

Lightweight Rankings:
1. Junie Browning
2. Efrain Escudero
3. Dave Kaplan
4. Phillipe Nover
5. Shane Nelson
6. George Roop
8. John Polakowski

Eliminations:
Tom Lawlor (ranked #2 LH) eliminated by Ryan Bader (Round Two)