Sunday, 4 December 2011

*Spoiler alert* - Mayhem Miller gets CRUSHED.

Just before the finale of The Ultimate Fighter Season 14 last night, I posted a prediction, Jason Miller to beat Michael Bisping by submission. Well the event is over, and it turns out that I couldn't have been more wrong. Bisping won by TKO in the third round, in a fight that Dana White afterwards described as "the most one sided fight in UFC history". I don't know if I would agree with this, but there is no doubt that Mayhem got absolutely smashed by Bisping, with it looking like he gassed after the first round. More than that however, his striking right from the beginning was sloppy, and even when he briefly took Bisping down, he looked like he didn't know what to do with him once he got there. Coming from a BJJ black belt, and all round veteran like Mayhem this really caught me by surprise, and I have to say that I was incredibly disappointed.


I grew into a big Mayhem Miller fan on the course of this season of TUF, and to have to watch him underperform to this level was absolutely heartbreaking. I knew he was the underdog going in to the fight, but to take a beating is one thing, Mayhem looked like he wasn't even trying. He was so pumped the whole season, and even on the way into the Octagon he looked ready for anything. Once the fight began however, he was so sluggish and lazy looking, I just don't understand why the fight went down the way it did. Also, considering how unimpressed Dana White was in the post-event interview, it is anyone's guess whether Miller will even get another chance to capture a win in the UFC.


With him now 0-2 in his only two Octagon appearances ever, I hope the UFC decide to give Miller a chance to give us the great fights I thought, and still think, he is capable of giving us.

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