2010
03.19
03.19
2010
03.19
03.19
“The Ultimate Fighter 10″ coaches Mike van Arsdale and Tiki Ghosn still jawing
by Steven Marrocco on Mar 11, 2010 at 9:10 pm ET
The bad blood between “The Ultimate Fighter 10″ head coaches Rashad Evans and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson spilled down to the assistant coaching staff, and it hasn’t gone away since.
In a recent appearance on MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio), Mike van Arsdale (8-5), Evans’ wrestling coach on the show, said he’s been itching to get a fight with Jackson’s striking coach Tiki Ghosn (11-7).
“He’s one of two people in this earth that I would beat up just for the fun of it,” van Arsdale said. “Hopefully, he’ll come around and make the mistake of signing up.”
During the show, Van Arsdale and Ghosn did some verbal sparring in between Evans and Jackson’s incessant face-off sessions.
On UFC president Dana White’s UFC 100 video blog, the assistant coaches jibed about a possible fight in the octagon. Van Arsdale later slung a few arrows in Ghosn’s direction in White’s UFC 108 blog.
There are two sides to why the two haven’t come to the table for a fight, and it’s a weighty issue; they’re in different classes. Van Arsdale fights at 205 pounds and Ghosn at 170 pounds.
And of course, they can’t agree on whom should bulk up and whom should get smaller.
Van Arsdale said Ghosn, for reasons unknown, became bent on fighting him during the show. But when it came to putting together an actual fight, the welterweight made unreasonable demands when it came to weight.
“When you call a guy out like that, you don’t ask him to cut 30 pounds,” van Arsdale said. “He’s the one asking me to fight and I’m like, ‘OK,’ … but then he asked me to cut a lot of weight, to come down to like 180 (pounds), and I’m like 210 (pounds).
“I’m like, ‘No way. I might meet you at 195, but that’s it.’”
Ghosn, unsurprisingly, disputes that recollection.
“First of all, the whole story is (that) van Arsdale got mad because I kept picking on him because we found out he’s a cross-dresser,” Ghosn told MMAjunkie.com. “So he got so booty-hurt that he called me out to fight.
“So I said, ‘Alright, let’s fight.’ He said, ‘Let’s box after the show.’ I said, ‘[Expletive] sparring; why do you want to spar me? I’m a Thai boxer; you’re going to get your ass kicked. Why don’t we just fight MMA so you have a chance?’ So van Arsdale says, ‘OK, let’s do that.’”
It wasn’t that easy, though.
“I weigh 183 pounds,” Ghosn said. “I said, ‘Can you get down [to 185 pounds]?’ He was already going down to 185. He said he can’t do 185 after I’ve heard from his whole camp that he’s trying to lean out and do 185.
“He decided to get cold feet when I called him out.”
Ghosn said he offered to gain weight, but van Arsdale made more excuses.
Van Arsdale countered there’s nothing holding him back.
“I’d fight him on the drop of a dime, but he won’t do it,” van Arsdale said. “I don’t know what’s wrong with that guy, man.”
So far, neither has heard from the UFC.
“He was talking [expletive] about me on the other blog saying I was fat,” Ghosn said. “Yeah, I’m fat. I’m trying to come up in weight to fight you because you’re too big of a [expletive] to cut the weight.
“The ball’s in his court. If he gets enough time and actually trains, maybe he can cut the weight. Maybe he needs to quit dressing like a chick and putting on makeup and we can get something going.”
Van Arsdale has not fought since April 2006, when he lost by submission to Matt Lindland. Ghosn, meanwhile, fought this past May and won a decision over journeyman Brian Warren.
Where would this fight happen? Who knows.
But at this rate, the drama of “TUF 10″ might never end.
http://mmajunkie.com/news/18277/the-ultimate-fighter-10-coaches-mike-van-arsdale-and-tiki-ghosn-still-jawing.mma
2009
10.22
10.22
2009
10.15
10.15
If you have been tuning in to the Ultimate Fighter every wednesday night, you probably are wondering, why doesn’t Rampage just punch Rashad “The cocky fool” Evans in the face already. You might also be wondering why most of Team Rampage’s fighters seem to be walking into the cage and laying giant eggs instead of fighting to their capabilities. Well my friends welcome to reality television. T.U.F. unlike the majority of reality tv shows, stays very true to reality, it is NOT scripted. We(Team Rampage) were very happy with the fighters we picked, regardless of there fighting abilities, because everyone got along and worked well together. In the short time we had with these guys, it was extremely difficult to help train and teach them, especially because more than half our team had very little mma experience. Out of the fighters who did come prepared for war and had mma fights under their belts, we thought we were in a great position to win every fight on the show.
With this show being a “reality show”, keep in mind that there are many different ways they can edit. For example, we were 10 minutes late for Demico when they made it look like we had stranded him for hours before his fight. Also we didn’t feel it was necessary to enter the cage to tell him everything is gonna be ok, because it wasn’t. He had put himself in a bad position by being flat on his stomach and allowing Brendan choke the shit out of him……. or to tell Wes Sims, “hey buddy way to go you just blew your chance to be back in the UFC!”, by freezing up and not listening to the game plan. These are grown ass men and don’t need to be consoled and lied to, the fact of the matter is that they need to train their asses off and get better before entering the competition. Not expect to learn everything in 6 fuckin weeks! All the while Rashad just tries to act like he is a great coach, and their team is winning because of the coaches, and discrediting the fighters from Team Rashad. He is a fake ass dude and fans can see right through it.
Rampage is the first person to say that he is not a coach, thats why he brought in people such as myself, Hector “Sick Dog” Ramirez, Waldomiro Perez(Junior), And Tom Blackledge, to help him coach. At the end of the day Rampage makes the final decisions and he is the head coach. We are up against former T.U.F. winner Rashad, who seems to be favored, by getting the better training times and having a team full of dudes that didn’t have to tryout to make it on to T.U.F. But don’t worry because we are about to make his experience here an uncomfortable one. Muhahahahahahahhahahaha!!!!!
-Tiki
2009
10.12
10.12
Rampage snuck from his busy filming schedule to come down and hang out with me in the O.C for a bit. Even though we only spent a little time with her, over the course of dinner we convinced the owner of the Vietnamese restaurant to come to Paris with us. It was good to hang out with Page, as busy as he is he always makes time for the boys!
Tiki