Ahem, so we’ve had a few technical difficulties—some might call it an all-meltdown—but we’re back up and running. Unfortunately, the latest episodes is…oh, about five hours cold, which makes those live reactions I promised a bit tough to deliver.
You’ll have to settle for just the standard, garden variety.
First and foremost, let’s address Len Bentley.
His confidence in himself borders on delusion, which I guess can be a good thing from a certain angle. But he wasn’t so vastly superior to wild cards Chuck O’Neil and Javier Torres (OK, maybe he had a point regarding Javier) and who holds another man’s hand like that?
I get the editors might’ve exaggerated the duration for effect, but still, that embrace went well passed the point of decency.
And it’s infinitely more questionable when the man is UFC President Dana White, a guy who essentially controls your future now that the UFC absorbed Strikeforce i.e. if you want to fight for a living and you’re not crazy good, you better not bum out DW.
Toss on the fact that he implicitly assumed he’d be featured in the finale and that wasn’t a good couple of minutes for Mr. Bentley.