The latest episode of TUF: Live showed one of the reasons I enjoy it so much. Urijah Faber picked one of his favourites Darren Cruikshank, a man who had grown up in a martial arts family and had trained his life to take on an outsider in James Vick who prefers boxing. Sure enough Cruikshank dominated him for the early part of the fight. Then shot for a takedown, copped a knee in the face from Vick and was KO'ed. One shot is all it takes

What was funny was in the post fight interviews Vick said he saw Cruikshank coming in for the takedown and went for a kick, it's just his knee got there first. Better lucky then good I guess

Also something I found odd is taht since Vick won, coach Cruz has the pick of the next fight. So he picked the karate kid Justin Lawrence who displayed some awesome striking against a world class BJJ fighter in Cristiano Marello. I would think Marello would be too experienced for the 21 year old Lawrence. Either way whoever wins this match it will mean two of the favourites have been eliminated in the first two fights as Cruikshank, Lawrence and Marello are considered 3 of the top 5 fighters in the house.