The Ultimate Fighter Season 4: Episode 1

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The Ultimate Fighter Season 4: Episode 1

Event Title: The Ultimate Fighter Season 4: Episode 1 (The Comeback Begins)
Event Date: 17 August 2006
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Event Location: Las Vegas

Date submitted: 18 August 2006

Submitted by: Sean McClure

Dana White lays out the premise of the show to the viewers at home. The fighters in the house are ones who had good chances at greatness, but fell short. This is their chance at redemption. The winners in the welterweight and middleweight divisions get title shots in the future.

The coaches are introduced. Randy Couture, Georges St Pierre, and Mark DelaGrotte are the coaches for both teams. There are no dedicated coaches to each team as there was on the previous seasons.

Lots of mutual respect and friendship is displayed. I was very surprised at this. It shows the maturity that these guys have acquired from years of fighting, winning, and losing.

The teams are picked by the fighters drawing jerseys out of boxes. Dana tells them that they have to pick names for the teams. The grey team is now called Team Mojo and the blue team is Team No Love.

Training sessions are shown as always for each team.

The welterweights get to fight first and the blue team gets to pick the fighters.

In training, Shonie Carter struggles to keep up. He pushes himself and ends up being our first throw up shot of the season.

Rich Clementi is announced as the blue team's fighter and he chooses Shonie Carter. Dana then recaps the UFC careers of each fighter giving good insight and a history of both.

Inside the house, Shonie repaints the UFC logo red and yellow convincing Matt Serra and others that he has issues.

Both fighters make weight and it is time to fight.

Rich gets an early takedown, but Shonie reverses manages to stand back up.

Shonie shows he has good striking skills and lands some really good shots on Rich. Shonie gets a nice takedown and dominates the ground work. The first round ends in a clinch position up against the cage.

Rich gets another takedown and attempts an armbar that Carter reverses and then gains side control. He lands some good elbows and eventually the fight makes it back to the standing position with Shonie landing more good punches and clearly dominating all aspects of this fight. Matt Serra's cornering of Carter proved invaluable here because what he was telling Shonie to do seemed to work every time.

Winner of season four's first fight: Shonie Carter.

Rich Clementi tells Dana that he was too slippery and Dana tells him that these things happen and that he may still get a chance.

Rich Clementi is sent home as the first fighter eliminated.

Source: MaxFighting