If Thompson is on the show, I’ll be fucking thrilled.

Caught me several times in what? Shannon is correct that we did grapple each other at the TUF tryouts but the rest of his post is utter non-sense.

In said match, you were to start on your knees and basically flow. Dana instructed us that he didn’t care about position but rather just wanted us to move and go for submissions. As such, I was trying some inverted-guard (at least I think that is the name of the position) and to Shannon’s credit, he stopped them and took my back. I then reversed him and was still, more or less, flowing when he put my leg across his body like he was going to go for an outside heel hook. Mind you, heel hooks were not allowed. In any case Shannon did nothing more than put my leg across his body before I became irritated that he was going for it and pulled of the outside heel hook and mounted Shannon. I locked in a side choke and he tapped well before I actually applied the choke. I let go and continued to flow, as per Dana’s instructions, and Shannon tapped as I started to set-up an armbar because he was exhausted and wanted to quit.

The sad part is, that Shannon’s grappling technique is actually pretty decent and he probably could have been a good fighter if he had any heart.

I wonder how many people showed up to the try outs. This is what MMAWeekly wrote:

As of 130 pst, 190 middleweights and 81 light heavies show for TUF 11 tryouts. UFC prez Dana White surprised by low turnout.