It's Like Anarchy Here - Recap

Gabe Ruediger talks about getting in peoples's heads. White tells us that BJ Penn and Jens Pulver will fight in the season finale.BJ talks about his quick rise up the UFC to a title fight with Pulver. Penn says he will "wipe out" Pulver in their next fight. Pulver has a different opinion he beat Penn before and is tired of hearing his name. Dana brings in the UFC hopefuls. The fighters will go through evaluations first Joe Lauzon says his eye on Nate Diaz who fights just like his brother. Cole Miller, lightweight talks about Corey Hill as an explosive fighter and a killer. Jens says the fighters so far have met his expectations by being in great shape. BJ now gets his chance to evaluate the fighters but the fighters are tired from Jens workout.Cole Miller says he hopes BJ picks him. Allen Berube says how in ten years no one will remember Jens but in thirty years they will remember Penn. BJ and Jens pick their team. BJ insults Jens by telling the guys whoever wants nothing to do Jens Pulver to raise his hand.Jens says "this isn't the BJ Penn show". The two coaches start jawing with each other with guys unsure of what team to join. Penn selects Gray Maynard, Gabe Ruediger, Matt Wiman, Joe Lauzon, Rob Emerson, Andy Wang, Allen Berube, and Noah Thomas. Jens selects Corey Hill, Nate Diaz, Brandon Melendez, Marlon Simms, Manny Gamburyan, Cole Miller, Wayne Weems and Brian Geraghty. Gabe Ruediger and Corey Hill exchange words. Hill says Gabe will be the first one going home. Team Penn now does their training. He starts talking about the people he brought to train his guys. Rudy Valentino is his kickboxing instructor. Tony Desouza whose both a UFC fighter and a wrestling coach. Finally there's Reagan Penn whose BJ's brother and a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu.

Team Pulver now does their training. Jens introduces his coaches: Matt Pena, boxing coach, Taisei Kikuchi, and Kirk White.Gabe Ruediger talks about his weight going up instead of down. BJ and Jens team both notice how Gabe is carrying extra weight that will put him at a disadvantage. Jens picks the fight while Dana tells everybody that to make it to the finals a fighter will have to win three fights in a row. The lightweight fight will be Cole Miller vs. Allen Berube. Cole Miller says he's not here to fool around. He says he wants to be with the best. He also says he wants to fight the best guys. Allen does his training with Team Penn. He talks about training in MMA and Jiu-Jitsu. He also says he's boxed and wrestled.

Fight Day comes with more talk with Cole. He says he wanted to fight first to set the tone for his team and season. Cole also says that he will put on a show. Allen says he can hit a lot harder than Cole and that he will break him. Cole says that Allen should tell BJ to throw in the towel. The Tale of the Tape is shown and nearly every category is in Cole Miller's favor. Allen Berube is ten years older than Cole, has a shorter reach, is smaller than Cole and his record isn't nearly as complete as Cole's. The first minute of the Round 1 is remarkably inactive with both fighters cautious to land any hits.Cole tries to land a couple of high kicks but misses. Allen tries to wrestle with Cole but it turns out to backfire as Cole tries a guillotine choke on him. Allen breaks the choke and two spend time trying to out grapple each other. Eventually though Cole catches Allen in a triangle choke submission for the win.

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