The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller has been a monster from the first episode and has yet to disappoint as it enters its seventh installment.
In fact, this roller coaster might be cresting before another wild stretch.
Only T.J. Dillishaw and Roland Delorme remain stuck in the first round (aka quarterfinals), but the two bantamweights are scheduled to throw leather in Episode 7. In other words, the action should get more heated as we enter the semifinals in both the featherweight and bantamweight brackets.
So there’s a storm brewing on the competition front.
But there’s movement on the reality-television front as well.
Dillishaw has managed to rub his teammates the wrong way by exuding arrogance while allegedly ducking more difficult opponents. The volatile featherweight Akira Corassani seems to create a new rivalry with each episode and it would seem the coaches are nurturing some genuine antipathy for each other.
To date, Jason Miller has mostly risen above Michael Bisping‘s constant needling, suffering only in a slight (and provoked) outburst as well as an amicable exchange of pranks. Of course, Team Miller’s sound thrashing of Team Bisping thus far in the head-to-head competition has probably played a significant role in Jason’s calm and the brash Brit wears on even the most patient souls.
Since neither the Count nor Mayhem Miller are renowned for their restraint, that powder keg figures to explode once or twice before the live finale arrives in the firs week of December.
Will it be tonight? Who knows, which means you better tune in at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT and join us as Bleacher Report brings you live commentary on all the antics.
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