The Ultimate Fighter's Akira Corassani Puts the Fear in People
by Nate Wilcox on Oct 6, 2011 11:59 AM EDT
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Akira Corassani is blogging at MMA Nation and shared his perspective on being on the cast of the 14th season of The Ultimate Fighter: Bisping vs. Miller. There are a lot of choice nuggets, but this was the most interesting to me:
It started out with some sparring and me putting the fear into people. You could hear them in the beginning saying 60% power, technical sparring. That's what Bisping said. You have to remember Marcus just lost his fight. Imagine losing and being eliminated from the tournament. Maybe Diego hit him first and it escalated? Maybe it was just one of those days everyone was pissed off. Everyone had 12 week camps before they fought to even get into the house. Then you have to fight again and diet. People are always talking crap and the sparring situation was all a result of stress. You could see me going 60%. You could catch my kicks. Maybe when I said I like to put fear in people it was out of context. It wasn't even the same day.
My thinking behind the intimidation to put fear into my teammates was that it was a small house. Everyone wants to win and you have these eight guys who are going to be your friends for the season who you trust with your life. I don't think so. People are talking and spreading information so when I punch my people hard in the stomach I want them to go tell the other guys I'm dangerous. The whole thing with the show is how you want to see it. Do you see the subliminal messages and what's really going on?
That's what I like about TUF fighter blogs, the rare instances when they venture into meta-commentary of the editing of the show. It's like hearing from your goldfish about what goes on in the tank when no one is home.
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"This mother Fucker next to me is wearing foot warmers? Its like 60 degrees out here." Joe Rogan
by Bobillarious on Oct 6, 2011 12:31 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
im starting to notice a strange pattern in the ultimate fighter since the first season.
alot of the strikers are usually the ones talking the most shit.
Leben, Guillard etc.
I am willing to test myself against the toughest fighters in the world, in front of hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans, over and over again. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, but I always come to fight. I've been doing this for the past fourteen years, and I have at least a few more strong years left in me. What have you done in the past fourteen years other than act like a moron on this forum and hang on Anderson's nuts? - Dan Henderson.
Also strange because Corassani's had only one stoppage by strikes in his career,
and that was a TKO.
I also don’t know what kind of self-respecting “striker” would win a fight by “Scissors Choke” either.
If he's Swedish he may have spent some time learning under Omar Bouiche
Didn’t have a particularly good MMA record, but is a Pancrase influenced Catch Wrestler with some nasty leglocks. Runs the Pancrase Gym in Sweden. Also looks like he’s spending time at Team Kaobon, a Muay Thai / Luta Livre gym.
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Oh please...
This dude was obviously getting pissed when Marcus was catching his leg and sweeping him… You could see he was getting pissed off and trying to push harder each time… Then his stupid @ss got all pissy and tried to push his way out of the cage (which was funny cause he couldn’t figure out how to open the door)…
Bisping had to calm him down, which negates his claim of 60% power… he’s obviously just trying to save face by trolling the situation…
The thing I find most confusing about TUF
is why the coaches always look and act so destroyed when a guy on their “team” loses. They’ve only known these scrubs for a few weeks or less, and are only really coaching them based on random selection. TV man.
by Trust Doesn't Rust on Oct 6, 2011 12:39 PM EDT reply actions
its a competition..
I am willing to test myself against the toughest fighters in the world, in front of hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans, over and over again. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, but I always come to fight. I've been doing this for the past fourteen years, and I have at least a few more strong years left in me. What have you done in the past fourteen years other than act like a moron on this forum and hang on Anderson's nuts? - Dan Henderson.
maybe because the coaches are competing??
The show is supposed to be about finding new talent (that is the number one goal). The UFC is supposed to be bringing in these famous fighters (coaches) as a tool for motivation, education, & guidance for these new up & comers. The coaches get paid, and more importantly, a lot of face time on a cable network channel; in the end everyone wins….
It’s obvious that some of the coaches really take to their teams, are more honorable, and truly invest in these guys. Others are simply there for themselves, and take the personal-team competition more to heart. It’s obvious which side of the fence each individual coach takes. Bisping is typically a competitive coach (appears to care more about his team wining for bragging rights, than the actual fighters themselves). Lesnar was also a perfect example of a competitive coach… he cared far more about having his team win than any of the fighters themselves.
Then again, a coach is supposed to care about winning… but in the end this isn’t football, or baseball.. this isn’t a team sport. The coaches are “supposed” to be there for the individual fighters… He should want each individual to win for their own sake; not for his own bragging rights… they’re just grouped into teams to add production value…
by theratheofwar on Oct 6, 2011 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Akira for president!
He is a really nice guy, he is just trolling you! -even if he is from the hard streets of Göteborg. ;)
He usually trains with good people like Overeem, Picket and so on…
Hopefully he gets to show some good skills and develops as a fighter in TUF.
I thought he was cool when he was all street attitude in the first episode
but then i noticed he was just a prankster…in the street you don’t pull pranks
by Parcero Malo on Oct 6, 2011 5:15 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
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