TUF6 episode 3: Joe goes home
Here are the words that will follow Joe Scarola around forever: “I’m not a dick. I’m not a douche bag. I’m not a pussy.”
So long, Joe.
I think I speak for all viewers of The Ultimate Fighter when I say we were as sick of your whining as you were of the house.
Scarola, who lost his fight in episode 1, packed his bags and left the house in last night’s episode. He had been crying since the last episode about missing his girlfriend. Awwww. How sweet.
At this moment, there’s some fighter gnashing his teeth because he missed the cut for TUF6 after Matt Serra, one of the coaches, pulled some strings to get Scarola onto the show. Scarola, after all, was the best man at Serra’s wedding.
Scarola got onto the show, lost in half-hearted fashion and then made himself nuts for two episodes by imagining that his girlfriend was blowing every guy on Long Island.
Serra went so far as to tell Scarola that if he left the show, he could say goodbye to his job back in New York as a trainer at Serra’s gym.
John Kolosci, a fighter on Serra’s team, wrote about Scarola in his TUF Diary for the Chicago Sun-Times:
Joey Scarola was simply a cry baby. Yes, as a person he was a nice guy, but he was mentally weak. I couldn’t even talk to him anymore, as he was driving me crazy. All the negativity and ceaseless crying was very annoying. I was sitting there wishing he would just go home because he was bringing me down. He should have just kept to himself until he got over it, or at least that’s what I would have done. How many times could you hear “You just don’t get it” or “I don’t think I can take this”? Yes Joey, we do get it! Perhaps he wasn’t aware that we were all in this house together and we are all going through the same garbage as he was. Nobody likes losing and nobody likes the house, but guess what, we signed up for this and now we must deal with it. Serra shared a story with us about when he and Joey were in the airport on the way to the show. Joey turns to Serra and asks: “Do you think they’ll let me wear Abercrombie and Fitch on the show”? Now what type of question is that? Is that what a fighter (or anyone for that matter) should be worrying about on their way to the biggest opportunity of their life? Annoying, just plain annoying…
Early in the show, there was a nice moment with Matt Hughes talking to the guys about his future in the UFC. Of course, we already knew from last week’s teaser that Hughes was going to tell his team that he had only two or three fights left before he retired.
What he added was that his in his last couple fights, he hadn’t really trained up to his usual standards. And now that the end is near, he’s not going to take anything for granted any more.
Otherwise, episode three was more of the same. Some of the guys cracked open the booze, got drunk, painted on the walls and threw stuff in the pool. Scarola packed up and left, pulling his suitcase and teddy bear behind him.
Well, at least we’ve got a great fight this week to salvage the episode.
Billy Miles vs. John Kolosci.
Miles is a former college wrestler who is a big welterweight. He looks like, well, like a Billy Bad Ass.
We expect too much.
In what had to be one of the worst fights we’ve seen in six seasons of TUF, Miles tapped out to a standing guillotine choke in the first round. I’ll have to rewind the episode but I don’t think either fighter landed a single blow during the entire bout.
