GUF HOUSE #TeamRossi
Jessie Wilde confronts his TW Combat Sports teammate Tanner
Mcklesson about leaving him out to dry in front of Team Rossi. Tanner
politely explains to Jessie that he doesn't want to be mixed up in
other peoples drama. Jessie tells Tanner that they are on the same
team and that they both are deep in this shit together. He tells
Tanner that he better choose a side before he has no other choice -
tanner nods his head and retreats to his bedroom for the night.
Carson, Tyreek & Oliver are all corralled by Tyron Bagley who is
talking about how Paul Rossi left the team out to dry after Tyreek
lost his fight. He tells them that Paul Rossi does not have their best
interest in mind and that if they want to have any chance at team
success they need to band together and convince the rest of the house
to join them to take a stand against head coach Paul Rossi.
Nikoli Volkov is drinking from his stash of alcohol and ends up
getting drunk. His Kosov Kourt teammate Esteban Garcia snaps and
reminds him that he has a fight tomorrow. The two tussle over the
bottle and Garcia is able to overpower him. Volkov laughs his ass off
and Esteban immediately begins to try to help him detox before his
fight. Volkov promises Esteban everything will be fine and that he
fights drunk all the time.
GUF HOUSE #TeamNation
Jacob Klein has a conversation with Team Rossi's Oliver LaPierre who
indulges in their team drama. Oliver tells Jacob about head coach Paul
Rossi's antics, the gym mural being vandalized and how his teammate
Tyron Bagley is trying to overthrow Paul Rossi as the head coach. He
tells him that Jack Nation approached him after the fight and invited
him to train with their team and that he has been considering it ever
since.
Arius Pagonis sits down with Sunil Khan. Their talk eventually turns
to business. Arius mentions how it sucks that Sunil Khan has been
eliminated from the tournament so early and how he thinks he has much
more to give. Arius presses Sunil Khan on how close he is with his
grandfather and whether or not is association would be enough for him
to get a fight with the GCC with or without the show. Arius ends the
conversation by telling Sunil Khan that if he scratches his back,
he'll scratch his inn return and Sunil wishes to hear more about his proposal.
Sanit Klahan has a conversation with Javi Ali completely in Arabic.
Ali laughs and tells Sanit that his Arabic is better than Sunil
Khan's telling him that he doesn't get much practice and that he has
forgotten where he's come from. Impressed by Sanit, he asks where he's
learned all of these different languages from and Klahan tells him
that he is self taught and was obsessed with language learning at a
pretty young age. He jokes that out of the languages he's learned so
far Mixed Martial Arts was the hardest one to grasp.
GUF GYM #TeamRossi
Carson Carver talks with Tyreek Briggs who tells him that he has his
full support and that he will do everything in his power to make sure
he's ready for his fight. Since he is eliminated, he tells Carson that
he is going to live vicariously through him. He tells Carson that out
of all the guys, gunplay MMA has always had the most faith in him.
Carson promises Tyreek that he will bring the W back to the gun play
MMA at all costs.
Teammates Oliver LaPierre and Tyron Bagley work closely together in
preparation for their future bouts. Tyron tells Oliver that if Team
Nation remains in control of the picks he will target them next. When
Oliver asks how he knows this, Tyron explains that someone has been
feeding information about Team Rossi to Team Nation and knows that now
is the best time for them to take a shot at. He tells them that
Nation knows we don't have the support of Paul Rossi.
In a sparring session, Tanner Mcklesson outworks Esteban Garcia
embarrassing him in front of team Rossi. Esteban Garcia tells Tanner
Mcklesson to run it back and when Tanner Mcklesson refuses, Garcia
quickly becomes upset. Several team members intervene in order to calm
down Garcia and remind him he's already punched his ticket to the next
round. Esteban Garcia later tells producers that he felt humiliated by
Tanner.
Nikoli Volkov shows up to the gym practice late. He works with Paul
Rossi and Paul Rossi realizes that Nikoli Volkov reaction and co-
ordination is off. Volkov gets trashed in sparring and Paul Rossi
calls a team meeting. He presses the team for what has been going on
in the GUF house but the members remain silent. After the meeting,
Volkov thanks Esteban and Oliver for keeping his secret under wraps.
GUF GYM #TeamNation
After working out to the point of exhaustion Danny Cross and
Demetrius Vitalis are laying with their backs on the rolling mats.
Vitalis asks Cross if he ever felt like he was in over his head being
here. Danny Cross tells him that deep down he did and that's what
probably cost him a spot in the tournament. He tells Vitalis that
regardless of how he thinks he got there, Vitalis here for a reason
and he deserves it. He tells Vitalis that he needs to fight for himself
because coach Nation and Team Themis is not going to fight the fight for him.
Jacob Klein has pushed himself to his limit in training session to
the point where he keels over and vomits. He later tells producers
that he's never trained so hard in his life. Explains that he just got
in with Tundra MMA and that before GUF he had been training out of low
level ammy gyms with middle school head coaches.
Anurak Chanthara and Sunil Khan are working on BJJ sweeps. With
Anurak Chanthara fighting in the top position they are going over all
the ways Tyreek Briggs was able to sweep him during their fight in
order to improve his top control in his upcoming fights.
Jack Nation helps Arius Pagonis come up with a gameplan based on
Arius getting the fight to the mat as quickly as possible and locking
in a leg lock submission. With Jack Nation being one of the best
grappling specialists in the world, Pagonis feels right at home and
confident in his ability to submit Volkov. Also important to note,
Jack Nation rolled with Arius Pagonis and lived to tell us all about
it.
THE FIGHT
Backstage #TeamRossi
An outraged Paul Rossi calls a team meeting after Nikoli Volkov's loss
to Arius Pagonis. With his team before him he rails on their work
ethic, bad attitudes and lack of desire to succeed. He calls volkov's
performance pathetic. He says that now Team Nation has won two fights
in a row and that the HILITE FC guys still haven't fought yet calling
the entire season a wash.
Tyron Bagley steps up and gets in Paul Rossi's face. Paul Rossi shoves
Bagley and a tussle quickly ensues. Team Ross springs into action and
quickly separates the two men who begin to exchange profanities with
each-other. Paul Rossi accuses Bagley of being a traitor telling him
that he bets he was the one who defaced the TW combat mural. Tyron
Bagley denies that he had anything to with the act of vandalism. The
two men are separated and lines have been drawn.
Tyron Bagley, Tyreek Briggs, Carson Carver and Nikoli Volkov quickly
band together after the altercation and come to the decision that they
have no choice but to overthrow Team Rossi. They take off their team
jerseys and throw them at the locker room door as an act of protest
against head coach Paul Rossi.
Backstage #TeamNation
Jack Nation celebrates Arius Pagnois victory over Nikoli Volkov
backstage. He revels in the fact that they have successfully tied the
season up and that Team Rossi is quickly falling apart. He thanks his
team for trusting him and tells them that they are just getting
started. He tells them that in the next round, he wants to see a sea
of blue and that they will figure things out from there but until then
we are all on the same team.
Javi Ali confronts Sunil Khan about his budding friendship with Arius
Pagonis. Ali asks Sunil what that's all about and Sunil keeps his
cards close to his chest. He tells Ali that they have a working
relationship and that he doesn't want to get on his bad side. Ali
warns Sunil telling him that Pagonis is bad company and not a man of
any god.
Arius Pagonis tells his Themis Palestra MMA teammate Demetrius
Vitalis that he's running out of time and that he will be exposed
soon. He tells Vitalis that at least the Themis sisters will be proud
that one of them has gotten through. He says it's a shame Vitalis lied
and wasted the team a spot tells him that when they are back in Greece
he's probably going to get dropped from the team if he has any say.
FIGHT SELECTION
At the fight selection meeting, Paul Rossi is missing half of his team
which makes Jack Nation chuckle. The moment is even more pronounced
when Jack Nation selects Sanit Klahan and puts him up against Tyron
Bagley who is absent from the gym. Sanit shrugs his shoulders as he
steps off the bench and instead squares up against Paul Rossi in jest.
Rossi shoves Sanit Klahan which escalates tensions as the entire
#TeamNation team is up off the bench. Jack Nation intervenes and does
his best to hold his team back as Paul Rossi and what's left of his
team are escorted out the gym by security.
VS
