Talk is Cheap

Tonight's episode of The Ultimate Fighter was another one-sided victory for Team Rashad. The ability to pick the best fighters seems to be more than just luck. Rampage continues to reveal himself as a poor coach while Rashad and his team have the sound technical knowledge to not only recognize their fighters' potential, but also to pick the right match-ups. Darril Schoonover has put on the best all around performance to date against Zak Jensen, who was a game opponent, but clearly outclassed. Schoonover landed crisp, straight-punch combinations and good knees in the clinch. When Jensen managed to take the fight to the ground, Schoonover responded with a triangle choke that squeezed the fight out of Jensen and the desperate desperate hammer fists he served up as a defense.
Rampage and Rashad are more than just a contrast in coaching. Their personalities and fighting styles are as diametrically opposed as two fighters can be. While Ramage talks, Rashad strategizes. Rampage is a scrapper and Rashad is a student of the fight game. Who would win in the cage, is a question that fight fans can only drool over for the time being. Schoonover v. Jensen, like all the fights this season, is just filler.