The Ultimate Fighter Heavyweights: Week 6

Written by Mike Wilkerson   |   Thursday, October 22 2009

Darrill Schoonover and Zak Jensen scrap during their Episode 6 fight on 'The Ultimate Fighter' (Photo: UFC)

Viewing Date: 10-21-2009
Show Title: Ultimate Fighter: HEAVYWEIGHTS Week 6
Network: SpikeHD
Reviewed By: Mike Wilkerson

I reviewed the entire season of MTV's "Bully Beatdown" last season for The Savage Science and got a lot of satisfaction out of it. Taking out one's frustrations via the fists of a 6'5", 220 pound man on someone that's beat your ass and humiliated you many times before is - well - titillating. This episode of SPIKE's The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights, provides you with an in-depth perspective of the people that are often jilted both in real life and this gooney televised life here via The Ultimate Fighter. Join us as we watch the continued career spiral of Rampage Jackson, and suckle the teat of revenge as we get to the conclusion of this, the 6th episode of season 10 of SPIKE's The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights! Be sure to listen to our TUF Tally - a quick, no-holds-barred call of this episodes fight via the Savage Style Podcast!

This review, like many of my online feature film podcast reviews, will be done in a "stream of consciousness" format, providing you essentially what I think as this episode airs. Read on below and be sure to chime in and tell us what YOU think of this review of The Ultimate Fighter via the 2GuysTalking: Savage Science-style podcast!

-- What's the point of alcohol in the house? Another call to the powers that make this and other real-time fight shows. What exactly is the purpose of booze in a training regimen? That's what I thought. How about creating a new, responsible precedent for not having alcohol at all in the house? This is 10 weeks we're talking about. Won't the people participating in the show benefit from being dry as a fish and focusing on fighting the entire time they're at the house? Get with the program, UFC/SPIKE!

-- "They think less of me..." No, they think you're an alcoholic, Darrill. You didn't come all the way from Texas to get your drink on. You came to get your fight on and make it to the next level of your career as a professional fighter. I don't recall booze being in the training regimen of any fighter that made anything of himself. Can you name one? It's the same reason that people that win fights didn't drink prior to their fight. It doesn't help, it decreases coordinated motor skills of all kinds and makes waking up after getting your drink on all the more difficult. Put the bottle down, dumbass!

-- Annnd he chews tobacco...: First booze and now we see that Darrill Schoonover chews tobacco? Wow. Someone needs to get this boy on over to YouTube to the always memorable Singing Throat Cancer Cowboy - stat!

-- Getting blood-hungry: It's great that they actually showcase this kind of thought in this episode. Often we're so focused on the gooney bits of what's going on that we forget that many times bloodlust - the WANT to fight, is something that drives many if not all fighters at one time during their careers. Here we get a smell of fighters getting into the zone of destruction and it's interesting to see it develop.

-- Sims Makes a Pool: Sims is quick to make a pool on how long each of the "outcasts" is going to stay sane, and then eventually flip out. Perhaps he can also make another poll/lay odds on how long it will be until his slurred words are completely unintelligible from too many hits to the head? I'm going to say - oh, a year and a half max.

-- "I get to bang again...: Huh? I don't know how Kimbo continues to think that he's somehow going to be "recruited" if one of the other fighters can't fight/step to the plate, but - PLEASE. Why would ANY of the fighters in this season's show want to let YOU fight again when: 1.) YOU LOST, with Roy Nelson sitting on your throat beating you from the top and 2.) No one has any respect for you? Consider those two items the next time you get the fever for the flavor of fighting next time and realize: You're more than likely DONE.

-- Note: Zak never said "titties": Rampage is (clearly supposed to be the GUIDING LIGHT/COACH in this series!) calling Schoonover Titties in this episode, and being the instigator of any of Schoonover temperament problems. I still have to giggle when I think that Rampage clearly has lost any handle on control of his team’s future, and his natural, base instinct, is to revert to name-calling and childish pranks that provide him with some self-satisfaction that forwards NOTHING else.

== General Fight Prediction Vibe:

-- Zak Jensen is ready to fight and eager to showcase the first victory for Team Rampage. Zak has had next to no coaching, has endured weeks of team ridicule as a recluse and has been given "are you going to lose to the guy with titties" as a call to arms. Right.

-- Darrill Schoonover has been bullied, pissed-on, and been given a reason to give Zak Jensen the ass-kicking of his life. Way to inspire doubt and detrimental affirmation, Rampage. I personally think you've just put Darrill's big-tittied hand in the air for this week's fight.

Tonight’s fight will follow the same format as previous seasons, with 2 5-minute rounds, and should it be tied at the end of those 2 rounds, there's a "sudden victory" round that will decide the match.

The 2GuysTalking TUF Tally for the Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights on SPIKE.

TONITE'S FIGHT BEGINS

== Zak Jensen Vs. Darrill Schoonover

Round 1

While we've been listening to Rampage tall a titillating tale of male mammaries for the last 50 minutes, it should be noted that Zak Jensen also features some dandy man boobage of his own as he enters the cage for this bout. Both have been bullied and called names over the last several weeks and are ready to deliver some punishment ironically to each other. Ahh the fraternity of The Ultimate Fighter...

Jensen lumbers forward and sticks a left jab into the face of Schoonover and he takes a step back and delivers his own left jab. Schoonover loads up a right hand that is echoed by Jensen. Four more punches land in quick succession by both fighters and Schoonover takes underhooks and Jensen to the cage wall. They pommel back and forth on the cage wall trading placements and not-so-friendly uppercuts as they make their way to the middle of the cage. Schoonover now lays in some nice knees to the midsection of Jensen, and he doubles over from a couple that look to have landed mid-sternum. Schoonover then unleashes a series of right hands, all of which strike Jensen in the left temple.

Schoonover begins loading and landing combinations to each side of Jensen's face, and his knees begin to match his rather roughshod wobbly belly as Schoonover continues his leathery assault. A last-ditch effort to take down Schoonover also fails as Schoonover sprawls. Jensen is able to get a single leg trapped as he stands and he bends Schoonover over a solitary knee and lands into Schoonover's guard - on top.

Schoonover quickly closes guard and quickly controls Jensen's arms. Jensen begins to posture to begin the ground and pound but - why on Earth is Jensen standing high and tall and not defending the slowly-coiling legs of Schoonover? Quickly with very little effort at all, Schoonover has begin the cinch of a triangle around the neck of Jensen!

Jensen in pseudo-defensive mode now is landing hammerfists as Schoonover continues to maneuver for position to lock down the triangle. Jensen is landing big punches but Schoonover is able to fend them off with his loose hands as he's trying to catch a chubbier piece of jugular with his left leg. Schoonover rocks his hips counterclockwise and brings Jensen into a very restrictive position where he has less access with his strikes and his weight begins helping Schoonover in the hunt for a successful triangle attempt. Jensen postures on last time in an effort to extract himself from the triangle, elevating his hips but Schoonover is just too heavy to lift, and he falls down even deeper into triangle control.

The alarm lights inside of Jensen's head finally realize that something is wrong too late, as his eyes go dead, his limbs fall silent, and the ref calls his name with no response and the fight, like Rampage Jackson's weak namecalling attempts is now over.

Winner: Darrill Schoonover by way of triangle choke!

-- Rampage offers no support - again: I thought that I had accidentally left this point it from the last two fights, but alas - Rampage is able to offer no support of any kind to his defeated, dejected, deflated fighter. Another boundless score for worthlessness for Rampage.

-- Perfect sample of Class - Schoonover: When in doubt, showcase a skill set as your response to ridicule. Darrill gets HEAVY props from SavageScience.Com in this bout. After winning the fight it would have been SOOOooo easy to go over and give Jensen a congratulatory hug, then turn to Rampage and say, "how's that milk taste, Rampage/" or perhaps do the "tittie jiggle" like burlesque girls did in the 1930s - but he DOESN'T. MAD PROPS to Darrill Schoonover.

The Savage Science Moral: I can remember vividly, bullies in high school that loved name-calling, that loved to get people's goats, and that quickly stopped talking when they either lost teeth, had their body twisted into something resembling a pretzel, or realized that the "ridicule" they provided actually fueled those who they were trying to screw with. Isn't it strange how people take inspiration from the strangest places? Again, total kudos and thumbs-up to Darrill Schoonover for winning and understanding just how devastating and quiet-evoking his win was.

The Savage Science Quote: "Titties..." I stopped counting at 30 this episode, but the fact that a grown man, a coach, a former champion of the UFC and now FAILED COACH has put NAME-CALLING as his best, "ultimate weapon" shows you just how small a man this large, childish, worthless little man is. That's really sad. Is Mixed Martial Arts actually going to MISS Rampage Jackson? I'd say not, and you and I both know that when it comes down to it, we'll see Rampage back in the land of fighting when he eventually pisses-off the powers in Hollywood.

-- Overall Show Rating: This was an outstanding episode that showcases the true "value" of name-calling. Again to call attention to many of the points I expounded on, you'll note that the fighters THEMSELVES weren't participating in any of the school yard crap that was showcased - in fact it was the TEAM RAMPAGE COACHES that egged on all "titties" comments. I'm also sad to report that it also showcases perfectly how school shootings and workplace murder-suicides are cultivated. We're only seeing a series of 10 weeks or so throughout the show, but now multiply that by years of continued, senseless, usually unabated abuse like what these two are clearly and overtly getting every day of their TUF experience. Now add more humility as the ridicule continues. Add-on crappy pay, other students "jumping-in" on those being victimized, self-worth spinning out of control and you can CLEARLY see the initial recipe for self and proximity destruction. While I hate "seeing it" it is a great sample of what we all SHOULDN'T do in life to anyone. With all that said, we're giving this episode 7 of 10 Savage Skullies and it adds to another great episode here in Season 10 of The Ultimate Fighter.

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Look for more here as THE SAVAGE SCIENCE continues to review this season of The Ultimate Fighter: HEAVYWEIGHTS!

Don't miss the Savage Science Style podcast review/recap of THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER Episode 6!



And the TUF Tally Podcast for the Week #6 fight!

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