I'm a week late on the recap column, so I'll jump right into it.Season 11, featuring coaches/adversaries Chuck Lidell and Tito Ortiz, jumped off to a quick start when 28 middleweights showed up to try and fight there way into the TUF house. If this season is anything like the preliminary fights, we are in for some high octane entertainment. The prelims featured some great bouts and included devastating knockouts, versatile strikes, and impressive submissions.
Episode 2 starts with the team selection, and Dana White and Tito agree that maybe Chuck Lidell should have reviewed the fight tapes a little more closely. They think that he went with the least impressive and smallest fighters while Tito's team certainly looks better on paper. Its hard to say if this was as lopsided as they say, because a lot of the prelims were short bouts which barely showcased the fighters' full skill set.
Luckily for Chuck, he got to choose the first fight and he chose his first round selection Kyle Noke to fight the wild but impressive Clayton McKinney. Seemed like a questionable selection considering how important it is for Lidell to gain control of fight selection.
The fight starts and the guys seem understandably tentative. They trade kicks for a bit and then the fight moves to the ground about midway through the first. Its obvious that Noke is looking for a submission, and eventually he catches McKinney in what looked like a weak triangle. I am very surprised not that he lost, but that he lost without putting up much of a fight. Then Tito, being the egomaniac that he is, decides to teach McKinney how to get out of triangles 30 seconds after he loses his fight, in the gym, in front of everyone. Well done Tito, that couldn't have waited.
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