Serra didn't corner the guy on his side because he was facing someone from his own team. Serra didn't want to corner him because he felt it was disloyal to the other guy. Hughes thought that this was unprofessional as hell. Discuss. Personal opinion I think they're both right. Though, i think Serra could've advised his man how to stay out of subs.
Serra is screwed either way. He wants to be loyal to his fighters by not picking a side, but then he is being disloyal to the fighter he is supposed to corner since Hughes will be helping the other guy.. Serra is in a lose lose situation. He cannot, not participate or he is screwing one of his own guys.. He cannot participate or he is being disloyal to his team. Way to go! Anyhow. As far as the coaching competition between Serra and Hughes, regardless of what happens in the very end, Serra already won the competition. Between the fighters is between the fighters, but since this is a reality tv show, the drama must continue between Serra and Hughes, even though Hughes has already had his ass kicked, stomped, turned inside out and sent through a meat grinder twice. Yet, he is still in the hunt lol. ****, that makes me feel like a tool for watching this.
Its ******ed. You can have something like 15 matches total, win 12 of the matches and still lose. Whats worse. You might start off with something like 8 fighters a piece. Once one team wins 5 matches, that team wins. Plain and simple. If its only about the last man standing, then there is no point to a coaching competition.
I seem to remember something about Hughes and Lawler leaving the MFS camp and starting their own (H.I.T; Hughes intense training or something like that) and I'd assumed that this show was his audition for prospective students. If that's true, then the coaching competition probably means a lot to him. Too bad he's looked so bad at it while Serra has looked so good. Maybe it's just Serra's many more years of experience, but I doubt it.
Serra is being ******ed. There is only one reason why he didn't want to coach against his own guys... and that is because he knew that he was going to lose that first fight. He CLEARLY set those two guys on his own team up to lose, and he knew that he didn't have to bother coaching his best fighter against his worst... so he wanted to stay away from helping his other fighter, because he knew that the guy Hughes was coaching was going to win. It was ****ed up. He allowed his fighter to go out there without his help, as he sat there and gameplanned all week with the guy that Hughes was going to be coaching. Bull**** on Serra's part, and if I was either of those two guys, I would have walked straight over to Hughes Camp and put a Hughes shirt on, refusing to go back with Serra. Obviously, Serra cares more about his better fighters, and cares more about "not losing" in a coaching match against Hughes, than he does about the guys on his team that need the most attention. The most ******ed thing is that Serra is acting like these guys are actually his students. They are on his team for the TUF contest, and THAT IS IT! When these guys finish their Semi-Final matches, and go on to train for the TUF finale, they go back to whoever they really train with and prepare for the final fight. Serra is acting like he can't coach against some dude that he has known for a month, who most likely, he will never coach in the future.
Good post. Serra and others jab at Hughes for losing all those fights. It's not like you can make those guys go out there and listen. He has only been training them for a few weeks. It's not like they were in his camp for 2 years. I'm sure Hughes didn't make Mac into a solid looking fighter. He already had a good history before the show.
