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** In Season 12, Team Koscheck came in riding high on their first win after three consecutive losses and having finally gotten under GSP's skin by taunting the losing Spencer Paige. With match-making privilege, they match their #1 pick Marc Stevens against GSP's #6 Cody [=McKenzie=], who is known for his "[=McKenzietine=]", a modified guillotine choke that negates the usual escape method of passing to side control. Come fight night, Stevens follows his wrestler's instincts and almost immediately dives head first into a [=McKenzietine=], and reacts by shifting to side control. Stevens is unconcious sixteen seconds into the fight. While GSP tells his team to be respectful in victory, Team Koscheck is left in shell-shocked silence until a glassy-eyed Nam Phan simply says, "Wow." In the second fight of the episode, Jonathan Brookins (whose claim to fame thus far was then-WEC-featherweight-champion Jose Aldo taking more than two rounds to defeat him) comes out and, in less than a minute, lateral throws the big-talking ''judoka'' Sevak Magakian, jumps on his back and rear-naked chokes him, putting the score at 5-1 for Team GSP.

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** In Season 12, Team Koscheck came in riding high on their first win after three consecutive losses and having finally gotten under GSP's skin by taunting the losing Spencer Paige. With match-making privilege, they match their #1 pick Marc Stevens against GSP's #6 Cody [=McKenzie=], who is known for his "[=McKenzietine=]", a modified guillotine choke that negates the usual escape method of passing to side control. Come fight night, Stevens follows his wrestler's instincts and almost immediately dives head first into a [=McKenzietine=], and reacts by shifting to side control. Stevens is unconcious unconscious sixteen seconds into the fight. While GSP tells his team to be respectful in victory, Team Koscheck is left in shell-shocked silence until a glassy-eyed Nam Phan simply says, "Wow." In the second fight of the episode, Jonathan Brookins (whose claim to fame thus far was then-WEC-featherweight-champion Jose Aldo taking more than two rounds to defeat him) comes out and, in less than a minute, lateral throws the big-talking ''judoka'' Sevak Magakian, jumps on his back and rear-naked chokes him, putting the score at 5-1 for Team GSP.
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** Also from Season 1, Chris Leben, due to his abrasive and melancholy attitude, and being at the root of the majority of the drama that season. His return after Nate was injured made many fans groan.
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** Pretty much the entirety of the brawl between Wanderlei Silva and Chael Sonnen, especially Silva's "Wannanow!?" and Sonnen saying "I can‘t let you get close".
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** Brian Ortega, after winning a Coach’s Challenge and scoring $10,000, asked for an extra $2,000. He then proceeded to give his entire winnings to the opposing team, letting them walk home with $1500 (the amount his team won). When asked why, he just said it felt like the right thing to do.

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** Brian Ortega, after winning a Coach’s Challenge and scoring $10,000, asked for an extra $2,000. He then proceeded to give his entire winnings to the opposing team, letting them walk home with $1500 each (the amount his team won). When asked why, he just said it felt like the right thing to do.

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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Upon his victory, season 11 winner Court [=McGee=] fought back ManlyTears. ([=McGee=] had been a heroin addict who turned his life around in 2006 by getting clean.) Also, [=McGee=] gave his son the middle name Charles, after his [=TUF=] coach Chuck Liddell.

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** Brian Ortega, after winning a Coach’s Challenge and scoring $10,000, asked for an extra $2,000. He then proceeded to give his entire winnings to the opposing team, letting them walk home with $1500 (the amount his team won). When asked why, he just said it felt like the right thing to do.

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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The exciting barn burner Light Heavyweight finale fight of Season 1 between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar. A fight so pivotal in the history of US MMA, Dana White constantly lists it as ''the'' reason The Ultimate Fighter got renewed after the first season and led to the rise of the sport's popularity in the US. Dana has even said despite Bonnar's increasingly poor record of late that he'll never fire him due to the fight.
** Forrest and Stephan are now both retired, were inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, and essentially have jobs with the UFC for life. One could argue Forrest could have entered on his other merits, but essentially, it's all because of THIS FIGHT.

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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The exciting barn burner Light Heavyweight finale fight of Season 1 between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar. A fight so pivotal in the history of US MMA, Dana White constantly lists it as ''the'' reason The ''The Ultimate Fighter Fighter'' got renewed after the first season and led to the rise of the sport's popularity in the US. Dana has even said despite Bonnar's increasingly poor record of late that he'll never fire him due to the fight.
** Forrest and Stephan are now both retired,
Both fighters were inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, Fame in spite of and essentially have jobs with the UFC for life. One could argue Forrest could have entered on his other merits, but essentially, it's all because of THIS FIGHT.



* TheScrappy: Now and forever, Josh Koscheck. He amazingly manages to come off ''worse'' as a coach in Season 12 than he did as a fighter in Season 1, since he goes from merely "dumb, immature jock" to "dumb, ''gullible'', immature jock who turns half of his team into dumb, immature jocks that lose badly and are poor winners".

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Now and forever, Josh Koscheck. He amazingly manages to come off ''worse'' as a coach in Season 12 than he did as a fighter in Season 1, since he goes from merely "dumb, immature jock" to "dumb, ''gullible'', immature jock who turns half of his team into dumb, immature jocks that lose badly and are poor winners".
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** In Season 12's premiere, after the fourteen contestants have won their fights to get into the house, coach Josh Koscheck was eying Michael Johnson, an athletic and well-rounded wrestler. However, GSP knows that Koscheck will also want Marc Stevens, so he writes up a list of his supposed top picks with Stevens' name written in giant letters at the top, holding it so that Koscheck can see it. Koscheck's team wins the coin flip, so they choose to have first pick of the fighters, but Kos spies GSP's top pick and decides that he needs to secure Stevens with his first pick. GSP whispers, "It works!" to his coaches and proceeds to steal Johnson out from under Koscheck.
** In Season 12, Team Koscheck came in riding high on their first win after three consecutive losses and having finally gotten under GSP's skin by taunting the losing Spencer Paige. With match-making privilege, they match their #1 pick Marc Stevens against GSP's #6 Cody [=McKenzie=], who is known for his "[=McKenzietine=]", a modified guillotine choke that negates the usual escape method of passing to side control. Come fight night, Stevens follows his wrestler's instincts and almost immediately dives head first into a [=McKenzietine=], and reacts by shifting to side control. Stevens is unconcious sixteen seconds into the fight. While GSP tells his team to be respectful in victory, Team Koscheck is left in shell-shocked silence until a glassy-eyed Nam Phan simply says, "Wow." In the second figt of the episode, Jonathan Brookins (whose claim to fame thus far was then-WEC-featherweight-champion Jose Aldo taking more than two rounds to defeat him) comes out and, in less than a minute, lateral throws the big-talking ''judoka'' Sevak Magakian, jumps on his back and rear-naked chokes him, putting the score at 5-1 for Team GSP.

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** In Season 12's premiere, after the fourteen contestants have won their fights to get into the house, coach Josh Koscheck was eying eyeing Michael Johnson, an athletic and well-rounded wrestler. However, GSP knows that Koscheck will also want has a personal relationship with contestant Marc Stevens, so he writes up a list of his supposed top picks with Stevens' name written in giant letters at the top, holding it so that Koscheck can see it. Koscheck's team wins the coin flip, so they choose to have first pick of the fighters, but Kos spies GSP's top pick and decides that he needs to secure Stevens with his first pick. GSP whispers, "It works!" to his coaches and proceeds to steal Johnson out from under Koscheck.
** In Season 12, Team Koscheck came in riding high on their first win after three consecutive losses and having finally gotten under GSP's skin by taunting the losing Spencer Paige. With match-making privilege, they match their #1 pick Marc Stevens against GSP's #6 Cody [=McKenzie=], who is known for his "[=McKenzietine=]", a modified guillotine choke that negates the usual escape method of passing to side control. Come fight night, Stevens follows his wrestler's instincts and almost immediately dives head first into a [=McKenzietine=], and reacts by shifting to side control. Stevens is unconcious sixteen seconds into the fight. While GSP tells his team to be respectful in victory, Team Koscheck is left in shell-shocked silence until a glassy-eyed Nam Phan simply says, "Wow." In the second figt fight of the episode, Jonathan Brookins (whose claim to fame thus far was then-WEC-featherweight-champion Jose Aldo taking more than two rounds to defeat him) comes out and, in less than a minute, lateral throws the big-talking ''judoka'' Sevak Magakian, jumps on his back and rear-naked chokes him, putting the score at 5-1 for Team GSP.
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** The decision in the Zapata/Stephens fight in TUF 19 may be one of the most bizarre, not only in TUF history, but UFC history. Most had Zapata winning via his wrestling domination, while some did give Stephens the nod due to doing more damage. Most importantly, two of the judges did; however, with a point deduction in the third sudden victory round on Stephens for an illegal elbow, it ended in a majority draw, and then the judges picked Stephens as the winner based on the fight overall. It was the first time anything like that had happened.

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* BrokenBase: The show at first divided the hardcore base. Many thought the show was great for getting exposure of the sport to the mainstream (and/or just enjoyed the show), while others bemoaned the influx of noobs to the online forums who didn't know anything about the history of the sport or any fighters who weren't on the show (with a little {{Its Popular Now It Sucks}} thrown in). Now, most have learned to accept the show or just completely ignore it.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The exciting barn burner Light Heavyweight finale fight of Season 1 between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar. A fight so pivotal in the history of US MMA, Dana White constantly lists it as ''the'' reason The Ultimate Fighter got renewed after the first season and led to the rise of the sport's popularity in the US. Dana has even said despite Bonnar's increasingly poor record of late that he'll never fire him due to the fight.
** Forrest and Stephan are now both retired, were inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, and essentially have jobs with the UFC for life. One could argue Forrest could have entered on his other merits, but essentially, it's all because of THIS FIGHT.
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* BrokenBase: The show at first divided the hardcore base. Many thought the show was great for getting exposure of the sport to the mainstream (and/or just enjoyed the show), while others bemoaned the influx of noobs to the online forums who didn't know anything about the history of the sport or any fighters who weren't on the show (with a little {{Its Popular Now It Sucks}} ItsPopularNowItSucks thrown in). Now, most have learned to accept the show or just completely ignore it.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The exciting barn burner Light Heavyweight finale fight of Season 1 between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar. A fight so pivotal in the history of US MMA, Dana White constantly lists it as ''the'' reason The Ultimate Fighter got renewed after the first season and led to the rise of the sport's popularity in the US. Dana has even said despite Bonnar's increasingly poor record of late that he'll never fire him due to the fight.
** Forrest and Stephan are now both retired, were inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, and essentially have jobs with the UFC for life. One could argue Forrest could have entered on his other merits, but essentially, it's all because of THIS FIGHT.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Upon his victory, season 11 winner Court [=McGee=] fought back ManlyTears. ([=McGee=] had been a heroin addict who turned his life around in 2006 by getting clean.) Also, [=McGee=] gave his son the middle name Charles, after his [=TUF=] coach Chuck Liddell.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Upon his victory, season 11 winner Court [=McGee=] fought back ManlyTears. ([=McGee=] had been a heroin addict who turned his life around in 2006 by getting clean.) Also, [=McGee=] gave his son the middle name Charles, after his [=TUF=] coach Chuck Liddell.


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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The exciting barn burner Light Heavyweight finale fight of Season 1 between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar. A fight so pivotal in the history of US MMA, Dana White constantly lists it as ''the'' reason The Ultimate Fighter got renewed after the first season and led to the rise of the sport's popularity in the US. Dana has even said despite Bonnar's increasingly poor record of late that he'll never fire him due to the fight.
** Forrest and Stephan are now both retired, were inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, and essentially have jobs with the UFC for life. One could argue Forrest could have entered on his other merits, but essentially, it's all because of THIS FIGHT.
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** The decision in the Zapata/Stephens fight in TUF 19 may be one of the most bizarre not only in TUF history, but UFC history. Most had Zapata winning via his wrestling domination, while some did give Stephens the nod due to doing more damage. Most importantly, two of the judges did; however, with a point deduction in the third sudden victory round on Stephens for an illegal elbow, it ended in a majority draw, and then the judges picked Stephen as the winner based on the fight overall. It was the first time anything like that had happened.

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** The decision in the Zapata/Stephens fight in TUF 19 may be one of the most bizarre bizarre, not only in TUF history, but UFC history. Most had Zapata winning via his wrestling domination, while some did give Stephens the nod due to doing more damage. Most importantly, two of the judges did; however, with a point deduction in the third sudden victory round on Stephens for an illegal elbow, it ended in a majority draw, and then the judges picked Stephen Stephens as the winner based on the fight overall. It was the first time anything like that had happened.



* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The exciting barn burner Light Heavyweight finale fight of Season 1 between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar. A fight so pivotal in the history of US MMA, Dana White constantly lists it as THE reason The Ultimate Fighter got renewed after the first season and led to the rise of the sport's popularity in the US. Dana has even said despite Bonnar's increasingly poor record of late that he'll never fire him due to the fight.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The exciting barn burner Light Heavyweight finale fight of Season 1 between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar. A fight so pivotal in the history of US MMA, Dana White constantly lists it as THE ''the'' reason The Ultimate Fighter got renewed after the first season and led to the rise of the sport's popularity in the US. Dana has even said despite Bonnar's increasingly poor record of late that he'll never fire him due to the fight.



* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Upon his victory, season 11 winner Court [=McGee=] fought back ManlyTears. ([=McGee=] had been a heroin addict who turned his life around in 2006 by getting clean.) Also, [=McGee=] gave his son the middle name Charles after his [=TUF=] coach Chuck Liddell.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Upon his victory, season 11 winner Court [=McGee=] fought back ManlyTears. ([=McGee=] had been a heroin addict who turned his life around in 2006 by getting clean.) Also, [=McGee=] gave his son the middle name Charles Charles, after his [=TUF=] coach Chuck Liddell.



** Kari Parisyan's "Do you know who I am bro?"

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** Kari Parisyan's "Do you know who I am am, bro?"



** Ken Shamrock's "I'll beat you into a living death!" said to Tito Ortiz.

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** Ken Shamrock's "I'll beat you into a living death!" said to Tito Ortiz.



** Thanks to Andy Wang "Stand and Wang" became standard name for whenever an accomplished grappler tries to strike despite his deficiencies in that area.
* NarmCharm: In The Ultimate Fighter Brasil, [[http://cdn1.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/3496939/WANDERLEI_large.jpg Wanderlei Silva]].

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** Thanks to Andy Wang Wang, "Stand and Wang" became standard name terminology for whenever an accomplished grappler tries to strike strike, despite his deficiencies in that area.
* NarmCharm: In The Ultimate Fighter Brasil, ''TUF Brasil'', [[http://cdn1.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/3496939/WANDERLEI_large.jpg Wanderlei Silva]].



** TUF Brasil also had a share of fighters who were desliked. Pepey (arrogant) and Mutante (always protected by Victor Belfort) from season 1 and Viscardi(disrespectful towards Minotauro) and Juliano Ninja (arrogant) from season 2 are good examples.
* StopHavingFunGuys: Matt Hughes, who detests flashy moves and such. To a point where he cut a promo on Rashad Evans for showboating during a fight in Season 2.
* TearJerker: After losing her fight,[[Adorkable Roxanne Modaferri]] is her usual, upbeat, self. Until she is alone, and she completely breaks down.

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** TUF Brasil ''TUF Brasil'' also had a share of fighters who were desliked. Pepey (arrogant) and Mutante (always protected by Victor Vitor Belfort) from season 1 and Viscardi(disrespectful Viscardi (disrespectful towards Minotauro) and Juliano Ninja (arrogant) from season 2 are good examples.
* StopHavingFunGuys: Matt Hughes, who so detests flashy moves and such. To a point where such, that he cut a promo on calling out Rashad Evans for showboating during a fight in Season 2.
* TearJerker: After losing her fight,[[Adorkable fight, [[{{Adorkable}} Roxanne Modaferri]] is her usual, upbeat, self. Until usual upbeat self until she is alone, and alone; only then does she completely breaks break down.
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* JumpingTheShark: Subjective, but many feel that the last good season was 5. After that, they started recycling coaches and former contestants started returning as coaches, the quality of the fighters went way down, and the show got really repetitive to some. The nadir that got a lot of people thinking this was Season 10, where word of Rampage's departure for the "A-Team" movie leaked (thus not fighting his rival coach Rashad Evans on the [=TUF10=] finale) and, as a heavyweight season of would-be MMA fighters who generally needed a lot of polish, there were a lot of fights where both fighters gassed before the end of the first round. However, seasons 11 and 12 have been entertaining enough to get viewers back into it.
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** Thanks to Andy Wang "Stand and Wang" became standard name for whenever an accomplished grappler tries to strike despite his deficiencies in that area.
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** The decision in the Zapata/Stephens fight in TUF 19 may be one of the most bizarre not only in TUF history, but UFC history. Most had Zapata winning via his wrestling domination, while some did give Stephens the nod due to doing more damage. Most importantly, two of the judges did; however, with a point deduction in the third sudden victory round on Stephens for an illegal elbow, it ended in a majority draw, and then the judges picked Stevenson as the winnder based on the fight overall. It was the first time anything like that had happened.

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** The decision in the Zapata/Stephens fight in TUF 19 may be one of the most bizarre not only in TUF history, but UFC history. Most had Zapata winning via his wrestling domination, while some did give Stephens the nod due to doing more damage. Most importantly, two of the judges did; however, with a point deduction in the third sudden victory round on Stephens for an illegal elbow, it ended in a majority draw, and then the judges picked Stevenson Stephen as the winnder winner based on the fight overall. It was the first time anything like that had happened.
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** The decision in the Zapata/Stephens fight in TUF 19 may be one of the most bizarre not only in TUF history, but UFC history. Most had Zapata winning via his wrestling domination, while some did give Stephens the nod due to doing more damage. Most importantly, two of the judges did; however, with a point deduction in the third sudden victory round on Stephens for an illegal elbow, it ended in a majority draw, and then the judges picked Stevenson as the winnder based on the fight overall. It was the first time anything like that had happened.
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* TearJerker: After losing her fight,[[Adorkable Roxanne Modaferri]] is her usual, upbeat, self. Until she is alone, and she completely breaks down.
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** Forrest and Stephan are now both retired, were inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, and essentially have jobs with the UFC for life. One could argue Forrest could have entered on his other merits, but essentially, it's all because of THIS FIGHT.
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** TUF Brasil also had a share of fighters who were desliked. Pepey (arrogant) and Mutante (always protected by Victor Belfort) from season 1 and Viscardi(disrespectful towards Minotauro) and Juliano Ninja (arrogant) from season 2 are good examples.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Matt Hughes' decision to hold a Bible reading session, using it to compare himself to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther Queen Esther]]. Matt Serra, his bitter rival and opposing coach, certainly did not hold back his disdain for the act.


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* NarmCharm: In The Ultimate Fighter Brasil, [[http://cdn1.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/3496939/WANDERLEI_large.jpg Wanderlei Silva]].
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* AccidentalInnuendo: Dana: "This isn't {{Survivor}}! You don't vote people off, you beat them off! ... That didn't sound good, did it?"

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* AccidentalInnuendo: Dana: "This isn't {{Survivor}}! ''Series/{{Survivor}}''! You don't vote people off, you beat them off! ... That didn't sound good, did it?"
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** Julian Lane's "Let me bang, bro!"

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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The CloudCuckooLander, BunnyEarsLawyer (and thus CrazyAwesome) Jason "Mayhem" Miller of (''Bully Beatdown'' fame) is to be one of the coaches for Season 14, with Michael Bisping as his counterpart.



* StopHavingFunGuys: Matt Hughes, who detests flashy moves and such. To a point where he cut a promo on Rashad Evans for showboating during a fight in Season 2.

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** In Season 12's premiere, after the fourteen contestants have won their fights to get into the house, Josh Koscheck (as team head coach) was eying Michael Johnson -- 8-4 record, young, athletic, a wrestler like him, even assistant coach at his local MMA school gym. Koscheck's team wins the coin flip, so they choose to have first pick of the fighters (Team GSP gets to pick the first match-up instead), and the choice should be obvious, right? Enter opposing head coach Georges St-Pierre, coming to the UFC Training Center with a conspicuous sheet of paper in his hand, held in such a way that (as Dana White warns him) its contents can be seen: an list of the fighters, with Marc Stevens' name at the top... [[WhatAnIdiot and Josh Koscheck takes the bait]].

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** In Season 12's premiere, after the fourteen contestants have won their fights to get into the house, coach Josh Koscheck (as team head coach) was eying Michael Johnson -- 8-4 record, young, athletic, Johnson, an athletic and well-rounded wrestler. However, GSP knows that Koscheck will also want Marc Stevens, so he writes up a wrestler like him, even assistant coach at list of his local MMA school gym. supposed top picks with Stevens' name written in giant letters at the top, holding it so that Koscheck can see it. Koscheck's team wins the coin flip, so they choose to have first pick of the fighters (Team GSP gets to pick the first match-up instead), and the choice should be obvious, right? Enter opposing head coach Georges St-Pierre, coming to the UFC Training Center with a conspicuous sheet of paper in his hand, held in such a way that (as Dana White warns him) its contents can be seen: an list of the fighters, but Kos spies GSP's top pick and decides that he needs to secure Stevens with Marc Stevens' name at the top... [[WhatAnIdiot his first pick. GSP whispers, "It works!" to his coaches and Josh Koscheck takes the bait]].proceeds to steal Johnson out from under Koscheck.
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** Pretty much all of the sixth episode of Season 12. Team Koscheck came in riding high on their first win after three consecutive losses, having finally gotten under GSP's skin (by taunting the losing Spencer Paige). With match-making privilege, they pick Koscheck's (unintended, see above) #1 pick Marc Stevens against GSP's #6 Cody [=McKenzie=], whose claim to fame is getting a TKO (punches) win in his MMA debut, a triangle choke win, then a ''[[BeyondTheImpossible nine-fight guillotine choke win streak]]''. ([=McKenzie=] uses a variation he calls the "[=McKenzietine=]", which negates the usual guillotine choke escape method of passing to side control.) He's been described as having the second-best guillotine in the world (in truth, he "only" has more guillotine wins than all but one other fighter on record). He gets into the house by winning via a [=McKenzietine=] where the guy passed out so quickly ''he'' had to release and tell the ref "He's asleep". Team Koscheck's coaches, and Koscheck himself are adamant in instructing Stevens to avoid the [=McKenzietine=]. Come fight time, [=McKenzie=] doesn't touch gloves, then rushes forward with a sloppy left punch followed a right head kick that's checked. Put off-guard, pressured, having caught [=McKenzie=]'s left ankle, and powered by wrestling instinct, Stevens practically ''dives head first into a [=McKenzietine=]'', and ''reacts by shifting to side control''. Stevens doesn't even stay conscious long enough to tap more than once, and in only sixteen seconds [=McKenzie=] ''breaks'' Team Koscheck. While Team GSP receives instruction from GSP to be respectful in victory, Team Koscheck is left in shell-shocked silence (from the moment of the tap) until a vacantly staring-ahead Nam Phan simply says, "Wow." Then Jonathan Brookins (whose claim to fame thus far was then-WEC-featherweight-champion Jose Aldo taking more than two rounds to defeat him) comes out and, in less than a minute, lateral throws the big-talking ''judoka'' Sevak Magakian, jumps on his back and rear-naked chokes him (then does the EXACT SAME THING, lateral throw setup and all, to Sevak's friend and fellow "judoka", Sako Chivitchian), putting the score at 5-1 for Team GSP. Best. Non-Griffin-vs-Bonnar. Episode. ''EVER''.

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** Pretty much all of the sixth episode of In Season 12. 12, Team Koscheck came in riding high on their first win after three consecutive losses, losses and having finally gotten under GSP's skin (by by taunting the losing Spencer Paige). Paige. With match-making privilege, they pick Koscheck's (unintended, see above) match their #1 pick Marc Stevens against GSP's #6 Cody [=McKenzie=], whose claim to fame who is getting a TKO (punches) win in known for his MMA debut, a triangle choke win, then a ''[[BeyondTheImpossible nine-fight guillotine choke win streak]]''. ([=McKenzie=] uses a variation he calls the "[=McKenzietine=]", which a modified guillotine choke that negates the usual guillotine choke escape method of passing to side control.) He's been described as having the second-best guillotine in the world (in truth, he "only" has more guillotine wins than all but one other fighter on record). He gets into the house by winning via a [=McKenzietine=] where the guy passed out so quickly ''he'' had to release and tell the ref "He's asleep". Team Koscheck's coaches, and Koscheck himself are adamant in instructing Stevens to avoid the [=McKenzietine=]. control. Come fight time, [=McKenzie=] doesn't touch gloves, then rushes forward with a sloppy left punch followed a right head kick that's checked. Put off-guard, pressured, having caught [=McKenzie=]'s left ankle, and powered by wrestling instinct, night, Stevens practically ''dives follows his wrestler's instincts and almost immediately dives head first into a [=McKenzietine=]'', [=McKenzietine=], and ''reacts reacts by shifting to side control''. control. Stevens doesn't even stay conscious long enough to tap more than once, and in only is unconcious sixteen seconds [=McKenzie=] ''breaks'' Team Koscheck. into the fight. While Team GSP receives instruction from GSP tells his team to be respectful in victory, Team Koscheck is left in shell-shocked silence (from the moment of the tap) until a vacantly staring-ahead glassy-eyed Nam Phan simply says, "Wow." Then In the second figt of the episode, Jonathan Brookins (whose claim to fame thus far was then-WEC-featherweight-champion Jose Aldo taking more than two rounds to defeat him) comes out and, in less than a minute, lateral throws the big-talking ''judoka'' Sevak Magakian, jumps on his back and rear-naked chokes him (then does the EXACT SAME THING, lateral throw setup and all, to Sevak's friend and fellow "judoka", Sako Chivitchian), him, putting the score at 5-1 for Team GSP. Best. Non-Griffin-vs-Bonnar. Episode. ''EVER''.GSP.

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* MemeticMutation: Dana's quote at the top of the page.
** Which is now on a placard at the training center.
** "Do you know who I am bro?"
** "Titties!"
** "I'll beat [Ortiz] into a living death!"
* TheScrappy: Now and forever, Josh Koscheck.
** Amazingly manages to come off ''worse'' as a coach in Season 12 than he did as a fighter in Season 1, since he goes from merely "dumb, immature jock" to "dumb, ''gullible'', immature jock who turns half of his team into dumb, immature jocks that lose badly and are poor winners".

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* MemeticMutation: Dana's quote at MemeticMutation:
** Dana White's "Do you want to be a fuckin' fighter?" It became
the top of the page.
** Which
show's unofficial motto and is now immortalized on a placard at in the training center.
center.
** Kari Parisyan's "Do you know who I am bro?"
** "Titties!"
Rampage's insulting nickname "Titties" to an opposing fighter.
** Ken Shamrock's "I'll beat [Ortiz] you into a living death!"
death!" said to Tito Ortiz.
* TheScrappy: Now and forever, Josh Koscheck.
** Amazingly
Koscheck. He amazingly manages to come off ''worse'' as a coach in Season 12 than he did as a fighter in Season 1, since he goes from merely "dumb, immature jock" to "dumb, ''gullible'', immature jock who turns half of his team into dumb, immature jocks that lose badly and are poor winners".

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Stephan Bonnar's comeback to Diego Sanchez' question, "Who are you, my dad?"

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: CrowningMomentOfFunny:
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Stephan Bonnar's comeback to Diego Sanchez' question, "Who are you, my dad?"
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The CloudCuckooLander, BunnyEarsLawyer (and thus CrazyAwesome) Jason "Mayhem" Miller of (''Bully Beatdown'' fame) is to be one of the coaches for Season 14, with Michael Bisping as his counterpart. ThisTroper, who hasn't watched this show in some time, will be glued to the screen.

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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The CloudCuckooLander, BunnyEarsLawyer (and thus CrazyAwesome) Jason "Mayhem" Miller of (''Bully Beatdown'' fame) is to be one of the coaches for Season 14, with Michael Bisping as his counterpart. ThisTroper, who hasn't watched this show in some time, will be glued to the screen.
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** Pretty much all of the sixth episode of Season 12, where Team Koscheck came in riding high on their first win after three consecutive losses, having finally gotten under GSP's skin (by taunting the losing Spencer Paige) and with match-making privilege, so they pick Koscheck's (unintended, see above) #1 draft pick Marc Stevens against GSP's #6 pick Cody [=McKenzie=], whose claim to fame is getting a TKO (punches) win in his MMA debut, a triangle choke win, then a ''[[BeyondTheImpossible nine-fight guillotine choke win streak]]''. ([=McKenzie=] uses a variation he calls the "[=McKenzietine=]", which negates the usual guillotine choke escape method of passing to side control.) He's been described as having the second-best guillotine in the world. He gets into the house by winning via a [=McKenzietine=] where the guy passed out so quickly ''he'' had to release and tell the ref "He's asleep". Team Koscheck coach and Koscheck himself are adamant in instructing Stevens to avoid the [=McKenzietine=]. Come fight time, [=McKenzie=] doesn't touch gloves, then rushes forward with a sloppy left punch followed a right head kick that's checked. Put off-guard, pressured, having caught [=McKenzie=]'s left ankle, and powered by wrestling instinct Stevens practically ''dives head first right into the [=McKenzietine=]'', and ''reacts by shifting to side control''. Stevens doesn't even stay conscious long enough to tap more than once, and in only sixteen seconds [=McKenzie=] ''breaks'' Team Koscheck. While Team GSP receives instruction from GSP to be respectful in victory, Team Koscheck is left in shell-shocked silence (from the moment of the tap) until a vacantly staring-ahead Nam Phan simply says, "Wow." Then Jonathan Brookins (whose claim to fame thus far was it took WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo more than two rounds to defeat him) comes out and, in less than a minute, lateral throws the big-talking ''judoka'' Sevak Magakian, jumps on his back and rear-naked chokes him in under a minute (then does the EXACT SAME THING, lateral throw setup and all, to Sevak's friend and fellow "judoka", Sako Chivitchian), putting the score at 5-1 for Team GSP. Best. Non-Griffin-vs-Bonnar. Episode. ''EVER''.

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** Pretty much all of the sixth episode of Season 12, where 12. Team Koscheck came in riding high on their first win after three consecutive losses, having finally gotten under GSP's skin (by taunting the losing Spencer Paige) and with Paige). With match-making privilege, so they pick Koscheck's (unintended, see above) #1 draft pick Marc Stevens against GSP's #6 pick Cody [=McKenzie=], whose claim to fame is getting a TKO (punches) win in his MMA debut, a triangle choke win, then a ''[[BeyondTheImpossible nine-fight guillotine choke win streak]]''. ([=McKenzie=] uses a variation he calls the "[=McKenzietine=]", which negates the usual guillotine choke escape method of passing to side control.) He's been described as having the second-best guillotine in the world.world (in truth, he "only" has more guillotine wins than all but one other fighter on record). He gets into the house by winning via a [=McKenzietine=] where the guy passed out so quickly ''he'' had to release and tell the ref "He's asleep". Team Koscheck coach Koscheck's coaches, and Koscheck himself are adamant in instructing Stevens to avoid the [=McKenzietine=]. Come fight time, [=McKenzie=] doesn't touch gloves, then rushes forward with a sloppy left punch followed a right head kick that's checked. Put off-guard, pressured, having caught [=McKenzie=]'s left ankle, and powered by wrestling instinct instinct, Stevens practically ''dives head first right into the a [=McKenzietine=]'', and ''reacts by shifting to side control''. Stevens doesn't even stay conscious long enough to tap more than once, and in only sixteen seconds [=McKenzie=] ''breaks'' Team Koscheck. While Team GSP receives instruction from GSP to be respectful in victory, Team Koscheck is left in shell-shocked silence (from the moment of the tap) until a vacantly staring-ahead Nam Phan simply says, "Wow." Then Jonathan Brookins (whose claim to fame thus far was it took WEC featherweight champion then-WEC-featherweight-champion Jose Aldo taking more than two rounds to defeat him) comes out and, in less than a minute, lateral throws the big-talking ''judoka'' Sevak Magakian, jumps on his back and rear-naked chokes him in under a minute (then does the EXACT SAME THING, lateral throw setup and all, to Sevak's friend and fellow "judoka", Sako Chivitchian), putting the score at 5-1 for Team GSP. Best. Non-Griffin-vs-Bonnar. Episode. ''EVER''.



* JumpingTheShark: Subjective, but many feel that the last good season was 5. After that, they started recycling coaches and former contestants started returning as coaches, the quality of the fighters went way down, and the show got really repetitive to some. The nadir that got a lot of people thinking this was Season 10, where word of Rampage's departure for the "A-Team" movie leaked (thus not fighting his rival coach Rashad Evans on the [=TUF10=] finale). However, seasons 11 and 12 have been entertaining enough to get viewers back into it.

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* JumpingTheShark: Subjective, but many feel that the last good season was 5. After that, they started recycling coaches and former contestants started returning as coaches, the quality of the fighters went way down, and the show got really repetitive to some. The nadir that got a lot of people thinking this was Season 10, where word of Rampage's departure for the "A-Team" movie leaked (thus not fighting his rival coach Rashad Evans on the [=TUF10=] finale).finale) and, as a heavyweight season of would-be MMA fighters who generally needed a lot of polish, there were a lot of fights where both fighters gassed before the end of the first round. However, seasons 11 and 12 have been entertaining enough to get viewers back into it.

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