Due to all of the air time Dan received during this week’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter, Mac Danzig has dubbed it the ”Barrer-isode.” Mac’s blog is great because not only is he very opinionated, but he also reveals the inconsistency in production and gives the viewer an inside look at what really happened. Here are some highlight’s from Mac’s thoughts from this week:
On Training - “Ben and Dan get matched up and we get right into a training montage that includes footage from a whole load of different training sessions, all spliced together. This is especially apparent, because it shows Blake training with him, and Blake never did get back on the mats after his fight with Richie, because after all, his ACL was completely torn.”
On the Bathroom Cameras - “As cast-members, we were all under the impression that those [bathroom] cameras weren’t being fed to video tape, and that they were for surveillance only.
On Dan Hitting J-Roc in the Nuts- “Dan’s knee-drop on J-Roc’s baby-makers gets aired. I remember every time Dan would train, somebody would get hurt. The guy was physically and mentally a little bit out of control. J-Roc was convinced that Dan did it to buy time because he was tired. That may be the case, but I think Dan is simply out of control. Kind of like a toddler on high amounts of sugar, just running around with reckless abandon, unaware of other people’s testicles. Unaware of anything at all, really.”
On Dan Running Every Morning - “Barrera was the only guy in the house who had the freedom of being able to go on monitored runs throughout the neighborhood, simply due to the fact that he was the only one crazy enough to be up at 4 a.m. to do it.”
On Hughes Rolling with Barrera- “Hughes actually beat up on Barrera like that multiple times during the show. I really think thats just his way of asserting his dominance over someone who has a lot of spunk. Never once did he act that way in training to me. I think he wanted to “break” Dan, so to speak. It’s more of a college wrestling mentality, I think. He really picked on Dan during training, but it was all in good fun, I guess.”
On Ben Saunders- “Ben Saunders has alot of potential as a fighter. That body-type along with his athleticism could make for a really excellent fighter in the future.”
