Splushi - Recap

Clips of Team Mir's third victory from Vinny/Jules fight. Team Noriega decides to have fun on Team Mir's expense. They pig out on Tom Lawlor's fruit platter.Lawlor says he will pee in the fruit platter to trick anyone whose eating it.The fight this week will be a lightweight fight. The fight will be Phillipe Nover vs. Dave Kaplain.Mir is confident in Kaplan to win the fight.

Team Noriega takes the fruit platter unaware of the urine in it. Eventually Dave Kaplan tells them much to the delight of Team Mir.

Team Mir does their training session. Kaplan talks about his history how he wrestled in Virginia and was a Division One wrestler. He says he did Thai boxing and goes on autopilot because his body knows what to do. Mir says he wants to see Kaplan in the finals. Nover comes home and says he's mad about people eating his sushi. Junie Browning says the other guys aren't taking the training seriously.

Back to Nover he decides to get back at whoever stole his sushi. Dave Kaplan is the culprit of the missing sushi. Team Noriega tells him that he is eating sushi with semen.Lawlor says he will get back at Nover by putting fecal matter in his food. He then goes to make himself the victim saying he had nothing to do with the urine in fruit platter.

Nover now talks about himself how is he fighting out of Brooklyn, New York. He says he does work as a nurse in New York City. He says what he has seen in the hospital has prepared him to be not scared of anything.

The official weigh-ins are done. Despite the fact that his team has now lost three straight fights, Noriega still thinks that Nover will win. Dana White calls Nover a "incredibly talented kid".. Nover says he has better Jiu-Jitsu and stand up. Kaplan jokes that the only thing Nover does better than him is being Filipino. Junie and Nover have an interesting conversation where Junie starts talking about a couple of Kaplan's weaknesses. Browning says Kaplan has a big mouth and doesn't like him.

Fight arrives and we see The Tale Of The Tape: Kaplan is nearly four years older than Nover and has a smaller reach. Nover has a three inch height advantage.

Round 1 begins and we Kaplan on the offense trying to catch Nover with a series of right kicks. However, none of them have much power so Nover catches Kaplan with a series of rights and left knocking Kaplan. We think the fight will be over when we see this flurry.Kaplan tries his best to hang out but looks out if. He tries to interlock his legs on Nover but that backfires. Nover continues to rain down heavy left and right strikes on Kaplan. Kaplan tries to move but he puts his back to Nover who has a wide opportunity to deliver strikes to the back of Kaplan's head. With Kaplan heavily beat up, Nover applies the choke. Kaplan taps out with 3:54. The fight is an resounding defeat to Kaplan. The win also breaks Team Mir's streak of three wins in a row.

Mir says he was in shock and didn't think he said anything in the fight.Browning says he's glad Kaplan lost because he needed a reality check. Nover jokes about being the toughest nurse on the planet. Mir talks with Kaplan. Mir said Kaplan was trying to test out Nover's punching ability. Kaplan said he let his pride get in the way of his technique.Still with the resounding defeat Kaplan still refuses to give credit to Nover as the better fighter.

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