Amir Sadollah, Team Forrest’s # 2 fighter makes the prediction of the night,

“I’m going to predict Matt Brown is going to win by murder!”

This leads us into Matt Brown’s training session, a very serious looking session to say the least. Brown is seen exerting maximum effort, every punch with full force. The intensity of his training is accentuated by the sounds of a classic solo piano (very Rocky like).

Brown talks about having had brushes with death, of how MMA saved his life. As a teammate reminds us, every time Brown opens his mouth, something manly comes out of it. Coach Forrest Griffin ends the segment by exclaiming his impressions of Brown’s tough guy work ethic and laying out his expectations for the upcoming fight.

“If a guy is going to beat me up in training, the least he could do is hurt someone in the fight”

WEIGH-IN

The commercial break promoting UFC 84 “Ill Will” BJ Penn vs Sean Sherk leads us into the Weigh-In. The promo for “Ill Will” might as well have been for the Matt Brown vs Jeremy May fight, because the tension is at an all time high as the two fighters approach the scale.

May steps up first, 184 lbs. Brown is next, 183.5 lbs.

The stare down is hilarious as May does his best to incite Brown with a series of clownish faces. If one were to look up the word ‘taunting’ in the dictionary, Jeremy May’s picture might well be there. Brown, for his part, does his best to scare the bejesus out of May with a stare that would make Charles Bronson wet his pants.

The only thing Coach Forrest is afraid of, is that Brown might have burned himself out for the fight during training.

TUF HOUSE

Hmmm… while Jeremy May might be the most hated man in the house, teammate Matt Riddle is beginning to show his dark side also. When we enter the house, we see the two Matts (Brown and Riddle) talking on a couch. Riddle who we last saw drinking shots with May, is talking trash about him. Brown is calmly listening when Riddle decides to become a turncoat and undercut his brash teammate. He tells Brown about May’s bum knee. Brown’s ears perk up and he tells Riddle how he’s pretty good with his leg kicks. Riddle emphasizes May’s knee problems again and prods Brown to use his leg kicks on May’s bad knee. Knowing how much Rampage hates to lose, the audience can only imagine how ugly things could get for Riddle if Rampage knew what Riddle was doing.