On this week's episode of
The Ultimate Fighter, Junior dos Santos had some trouble in the ranks of his coaching staff, and he had to reprimand his assistant, Lew Polley, for pushing his fighters too hard in practice.
Ramsey Nijem, a member of Team Dos Santos, said in his weekly interview with MMAFighting.com that he was glad dos Santos said something, because Polley had been taking his intense coaching style to extreme lengths.
Nijem also discussed the new member of Team Dos Santos and this week's fight between Len Bentley and Ryan McGillivray, and he offered an interesting preview of his own (not quite) nude scene in next week's episode. The full interview is below.
Michael David Smith: On last week's show Keon Caldwell left, and this week Justin Edwards replaced him on Team Dos Santos. What did you think of your new teammate?
Ramsey Nijem: At first I thought he was Little Randy Couture, because he looks just like Randy. But Justin got there the first day, jumped right in and was in shape and ready to work. We were excited to have him on our team because Keon wasn't in great shape and it was good to have a teammate who could push us in practice.
We saw some tension between Junior and Lew Polley, and you were shown saying you thought Lew had crossed the line into pushing you guys too hard.
Yeah, Lew is a real emotional guy, and sometimes he acts like he has something to prove to everybody. I think he wanted to show us how much he could push us. I didn't feel like I needed to prove anything, but he was yelling at us a lot and not real positive. That was kind of frustrating, and we all talked to Junior and told him we didn't really like it.
Brock Lesnar chose Len Bentley from his team to fight Ryan McGillivray from your team. What did you think of the matchup?
I really thought Len was overrated from the beginning. I thought Ryan was going to beat him, and he did. I thought it would be a scrap because they're both scrappy guys, but Ryan I thought had great jiu jitsu, and I had trained with Len and all he does is shoot in and throw wild punches. There's nothing about Len that would make you scared to fight him, whereas Ryan has good boxing and that good counter-hook you saw him rock Len with.
Ryan had to sweat off 10 pounds before the weigh-in. Was making weight a big concern with the guys in the house?
Ryan was the biggest dude in the house, and I don't think he knew a lot about good nutrition, and he also hadn't wrestled and didn't have much experience cutting weight. That made it hard on him and he struggled getting down.
Is making weight an issue for you?
Not really. I walk around at 180, 179 when I'm training hard and I thought it was kind of an advantage that I could make weight without really trying too hard. I've usually fought at 155, which is a huge cut for me.
Do you think you'll ever move back down to lightweight?
I don't think so -- 155 is a real tough weight class. I actually think 170 is probably where I'll be.
The commercial for next week's show makes it look like you're a big part of it. Anything you want to give away?
Well, let's just say that when it looks on TV like I'm naked, I wasn't really naked.
(Editor's note: Ramsey Nijem will join us each week during Season 13 of The Ultimate Fighter to share his thoughts on that week's episode. Follow Ramsey on Twitter @RamseyNijem.)
Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/04/14/ultimate-fighters-ramsey-nijem-talks-tension-on-team-dos-santos/
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