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Note: All quotes and material were obtained firsthand by Bleacher Report through one-on-one between Jessamyn Duke and Bleacher Report’s Riley Kontek.

Coming off Chris Beal’s loss to Chris Holdsworth, my team was now 0-2 going into the next female fight with Team Tate in control. At the picks the two smallest women were chosen, Roxanne Modafferi and Jessica Rakoczy, my teammate.

It was a fight we would have picked, but we were going to wait until the last female fight because, unfortunately, Jessica hurt her shoulder in the elimination fight against Revelina Berto. She got caught in an armlock and everyone knew she was banged up. After she won her fight against Revelina, she sat on the bleachers for the rest of the fights with an icepack on her shoulder.

So in a perfect world, we’d have opted for more time for her shoulder to heal. But in the TUF house, you don’t always do what you want to do; you do what you have to do.

Jessica couldn’t train to her fullest because of her injury. She could barely move her shoulder or even sleep on it. It wasn’t a secret either because she was constantly icing it. It was her right shoulder so all she could really throw was her left punch, which you saw when she was working on a drill with Ronda Rousey. It wasn’t until she was picked to fight that the coaches even started working her right shoulder and grappling. Team Tate knew she was hurt, and that’s why they picked her. Shades of Chris Beal…

The confrontation of the episode was between Coach Edmond and Team Tate’s guest coach Dennis Hallman, a UFC veteran. At one of the weigh-ins, which they didn’t show on TV, Hallman was staring a hole through Edmond. This was the first time we had seen Hallman and for some reason he decided to try and mean mug Edmond. It’s one thing to glance and catch eyes with somebody, but he was making it obvious.

Finally, Edmond spoke up and said, “What’s your problem man, why are you staring at me?” What you saw on the show was Edmond giving Dennis the look back because he was insulted by it.

In the locker room, Ronda was sure Hallman was trying to provoke Edmond into a fight to get him kicked off the show, which would have hurt our team because Edmond was considered the head coach and Dennis was a temporary guest coach for them. We thought it was a cheap tactic, but the episode only shows Edmond’s reaction, not what provoked him. Trust me, Hallman started it.

Edmond has a temper to begin with, so they knew it would push his buttons, but he kept his cool. Of course, Dana White stepped in and tried to calm the situation down saying things like, “This isn’t what the show is all about, this will make the sport bad, please knock it off.”

After that Ronda gave him her word that Team Rousey would not engage in any further confrontations, respond to any so called “pranks” and that nothing would happen.

However, this kind of antagonistic behavior would continue for the rest of the show.  We just couldn’t react because Ronda  told us not to do it. She said when she gave her word, she meant it, and we had to honor that as her team.We did, but the result was Team Tate would kind of bully us knowing that we wouldn‘t retaliate.

Going into the house, I didn’t really know anything about Jessica Rakoczy in terms of her personal life or the extent of her boxing career. However, she truly became one of my favorite people in the house because she was very passionate about the sport. She was extremely caring and motherly toward us and she had literally everything coming into the house we would need. For instance, somebody would say, “Man, I wish I had a Q-tip” and bam! She would pull out her bag and grab you one.

Of course, she had a heartbreaking background. What she’s gone through is the reason she has the passion she does for this sport. It really is true, boxing saved her life. Had she not found boxing, she wouldn’t be the person she is today.

You can see her passion in each of her fights. She has the most terrifying warm-up I’ve ever seen, and it’s because she draws on the pain from her past to give her strength and it makes her fight with a vengeance.

As for Roxanne, you can see how positive and friendly she is on the show. That’s her true character, and she’s just impossible not to like. Everyone got along with her, and she was really fun to be around.

She was making that toilet paper man in our room and at first I was like, “This is really what you’re doing right now?” Then a couple minutes later, I’m on the floor helping her and having a blast. Her playful outlook and happy attitude are just really infectious. That was great because we needed someone like that in the house.

In the cage, though, Roxanne is one of the toughest fighters in the world. She’s no joke when she fights, and people sometimes underestimate her because she is so nice and friendly. She can take a shot and keep coming forward and she’s a serious threat on the ground. Going into the fight, we had to stress to Jessica how dangerous Roxanne really was, which gave her a little fear going in, but that’s a good thing because she went into the fight prepared and not overconfident.

Jessica admitted having Roxanne as a roommate and opponent was kind of awkward, but we sat down at the beginning of the show when we chose rooms and discussed the ground rules of what we could talk about and what we would do when inevitably one of us would be fighting her. Would somebody move rooms?

What we decided was that it wouldn’t be a big deal and we would stick with everyone in the room. I could understand the awkwardness Jessica had though, because I don’t like to be buddy-buddy friends with somebody before a fight because that can lead you to treating someone like a sparring partner instead of an opponent. After the fight, I’m all about being friends but beforehand I need some space. That obviously wasn’t the case with the fight between Jessica and Roxanne.

Fight time came and I thought it was a good, competitive bout. Roxanne won the first round with her grappling and positions. She did get reversed at one point and took some damage, but she still took the round. On the other hand, Jessica is extremely explosive and strong, so Roxanne had a hard time holding her down to do any real harm.

At one point, she had her in a really tight armbar. I think because Jessica was such a handful, Roxanne tired out a little bit in the first round. You could see she was a little gassed in between rounds.

Jessica’s speed and accuracy with her punches were the key to her win. Roxanne threw a spinning back fist which she side-stepped and countered hard in the blink of an eye. At one point, Jessica got back on her feet and was adjusting her shorts while avoiding punches to her head. That’s how quick she is. She was still fresh, and Roxanne was definitely getting a little winded.

The refereeing in that fight was some of the strangest I had ever seen. The way he stopped Jessica in the middle of striking Roxanne and screamed in her face was weird. We thought she was hitting Roxanne in the back of the head. He pulled her off to the side and talked to her, but didn’t take a point.

She did grab the fence unintentionally several times but just because it wasn‘t on purpose, doesn’t excuse it, so she probably should have gotten a point taken.

You can’t give that many warnings. If you are going to give that many warnings, you have to take a point or stop giving warnings. I don’t think taking the point would have done anything to change the fight outcome, but she probably should have been penalized.

The finish of the fight was crazy. Roxanne was lifted up by Jessica and slammed to the mat. Her head bounced off really hard and you could tell from her eyes that she didn’t know where she was. She got hit again, and it looked like it brought her back to consciousness, which happens. One more punch and she was out again, and that’s when the stoppage came. Sometimes you get knocked out and another strike wakes you back up, and that’s what I think was the case there.

The stoppage may have seemed late because Roxanne looked loopy while on the ground, but she was still throwing her legs up for attacks, and we were yelling for her to back off. Roxanne’s dangerous even when she’s hurt badly and that’s why I think the ref let it go as long as he did. That final punch that earned the stoppage may have been overkill, but the ref was giving her a chance to work. 

The mood after Roxanne lost was pretty crappy. We were elated that Jessica won and Team Rousey had gained control, but we were also extremely bummed for Roxy. There was no excessive celebration; everyone was just concerned that she was okay. Of course, being the awesome person she is, she immediately wanted to see Jessica and congratulate her. She truly is a good soul and a class act.

So finally, we got to pick the next fight and Ronda went with Davey Grant from our team against Louis Fissette of their team. She picked Davey because he was ready and had been asking for a fight. He was peaking in training, which is great because that’s when you get the best performance in the cage.

He’s kind of a goofy guy, and a bit of a roughneck in training. He spars hard, wrestles hard, fights hard and overall trains hard. He loves to bang and he loves to get in there and go. We knew he had to get in there and fight right away.

Louis was the guy who lost to Holdsworth in the fight to get into the house but took Timmy Gorman’s spot when he got injured. We viewed Louis as their weakest fighter, so that’s why we chose him. That being said, his fight with Holdsworth showed he could go hard and would probably be a tough opponent. 

We had a ton of confidence in Davey, which was great for me because, if he won and we retained the pick, I would get the next fight. I was supposed to be next if Chris Beal had won, but that didn‘t happen. Of course, I was feeling very confident Davey could win, so my excitement started building just knowing I’d have a fight of my own very soon.

 

**Tune in next week to hear Jessamyn’s thoughts on the continued tension between coaching staffs, more in-depth stories from the house and her thoughts on the fight between Davey Grant and Louis Fissette as well as the next female fight pick.

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Note: All quotes and material were obtained firsthand by Bleacher Report through one-on-one between Jessamyn Duke and Bleacher Report’s Riley Kontek.

Coming off Chris Beal’s loss to Chris Holdsworth, my team was now 0-2 going into the next female fight with Team Tate in control. At the picks the two smallest women were chosen, Roxanne Modafferi and Jessica Rakoczy, my teammate.

It was a fight we would have picked, but we were going to wait until the last female fight because, unfortunately, Jessica hurt her shoulder in the elimination fight against Revelina Berto. She got caught in an armlock and everyone knew she was banged up. After she won her fight against Revelina, she sat on the bleachers for the rest of the fights with an icepack on her shoulder.

So in a perfect world, we’d have opted for more time for her shoulder to heal. But in the TUF house, you don’t always do what you want to do; you do what you have to do.

Jessica couldn’t train to her fullest because of her injury. She could barely move her shoulder or even sleep on it. It wasn’t a secret either because she was constantly icing it. It was her right shoulder so all she could really throw was her left punch, which you saw when she was working on a drill with Ronda Rousey. It wasn’t until she was picked to fight that the coaches even started working her right shoulder and grappling. Team Tate knew she was hurt, and that’s why they picked her. Shades of Chris Beal…

The confrontation of the episode was between Coach Edmond and Team Tate’s guest coach Dennis Hallman, a UFC veteran. At one of the weigh-ins, which they didn’t show on TV, Hallman was staring a hole through Edmond. This was the first time we had seen Hallman and for some reason he decided to try and mean mug Edmond. It’s one thing to glance and catch eyes with somebody, but he was making it obvious.

Finally, Edmond spoke up and said, “What’s your problem man, why are you staring at me?” What you saw on the show was Edmond giving Dennis the look back because he was insulted by it.

In the locker room, Ronda was sure Hallman was trying to provoke Edmond into a fight to get him kicked off the show, which would have hurt our team because Edmond was considered the head coach and Dennis was a temporary guest coach for them. We thought it was a cheap tactic, but the episode only shows Edmond’s reaction, not what provoked him. Trust me, Hallman started it.

Edmond has a temper to begin with, so they knew it would push his buttons, but he kept his cool. Of course, Dana White stepped in and tried to calm the situation down saying things like, “This isn’t what the show is all about, this will make the sport bad, please knock it off.”

After that Ronda gave him her word that Team Rousey would not engage in any further confrontations, respond to any so called “pranks” and that nothing would happen.

However, this kind of antagonistic behavior would continue for the rest of the show.  We just couldn’t react because Ronda  told us not to do it. She said when she gave her word, she meant it, and we had to honor that as her team.We did, but the result was Team Tate would kind of bully us knowing that we wouldn‘t retaliate.

Going into the house, I didn’t really know anything about Jessica Rakoczy in terms of her personal life or the extent of her boxing career. However, she truly became one of my favorite people in the house because she was very passionate about the sport. She was extremely caring and motherly toward us and she had literally everything coming into the house we would need. For instance, somebody would say, “Man, I wish I had a Q-tip” and bam! She would pull out her bag and grab you one.

Of course, she had a heartbreaking background. What she’s gone through is the reason she has the passion she does for this sport. It really is true, boxing saved her life. Had she not found boxing, she wouldn’t be the person she is today.

You can see her passion in each of her fights. She has the most terrifying warm-up I’ve ever seen, and it’s because she draws on the pain from her past to give her strength and it makes her fight with a vengeance.

As for Roxanne, you can see how positive and friendly she is on the show. That’s her true character, and she’s just impossible not to like. Everyone got along with her, and she was really fun to be around.

She was making that toilet paper man in our room and at first I was like, “This is really what you’re doing right now?” Then a couple minutes later, I’m on the floor helping her and having a blast. Her playful outlook and happy attitude are just really infectious. That was great because we needed someone like that in the house.

In the cage, though, Roxanne is one of the toughest fighters in the world. She’s no joke when she fights, and people sometimes underestimate her because she is so nice and friendly. She can take a shot and keep coming forward and she’s a serious threat on the ground. Going into the fight, we had to stress to Jessica how dangerous Roxanne really was, which gave her a little fear going in, but that’s a good thing because she went into the fight prepared and not overconfident.

Jessica admitted having Roxanne as a roommate and opponent was kind of awkward, but we sat down at the beginning of the show when we chose rooms and discussed the ground rules of what we could talk about and what we would do when inevitably one of us would be fighting her. Would somebody move rooms?

What we decided was that it wouldn’t be a big deal and we would stick with everyone in the room. I could understand the awkwardness Jessica had though, because I don’t like to be buddy-buddy friends with somebody before a fight because that can lead you to treating someone like a sparring partner instead of an opponent. After the fight, I’m all about being friends but beforehand I need some space. That obviously wasn’t the case with the fight between Jessica and Roxanne.

Fight time came and I thought it was a good, competitive bout. Roxanne won the first round with her grappling and positions. She did get reversed at one point and took some damage, but she still took the round. On the other hand, Jessica is extremely explosive and strong, so Roxanne had a hard time holding her down to do any real harm.

At one point, she had her in a really tight armbar. I think because Jessica was such a handful, Roxanne tired out a little bit in the first round. You could see she was a little gassed in between rounds.

Jessica’s speed and accuracy with her punches were the key to her win. Roxanne threw a spinning back fist which she side-stepped and countered hard in the blink of an eye. At one point, Jessica got back on her feet and was adjusting her shorts while avoiding punches to her head. That’s how quick she is. She was still fresh, and Roxanne was definitely getting a little winded.

The refereeing in that fight was some of the strangest I had ever seen. The way he stopped Jessica in the middle of striking Roxanne and screamed in her face was weird. We thought she was hitting Roxanne in the back of the head. He pulled her off to the side and talked to her, but didn’t take a point.

She did grab the fence unintentionally several times but just because it wasn‘t on purpose, doesn’t excuse it, so she probably should have gotten a point taken.

You can’t give that many warnings. If you are going to give that many warnings, you have to take a point or stop giving warnings. I don’t think taking the point would have done anything to change the fight outcome, but she probably should have been penalized.

The finish of the fight was crazy. Roxanne was lifted up by Jessica and slammed to the mat. Her head bounced off really hard and you could tell from her eyes that she didn’t know where she was. She got hit again, and it looked like it brought her back to consciousness, which happens. One more punch and she was out again, and that’s when the stoppage came. Sometimes you get knocked out and another strike wakes you back up, and that’s what I think was the case there.

The stoppage may have seemed late because Roxanne looked loopy while on the ground, but she was still throwing her legs up for attacks, and we were yelling for her to back off. Roxanne’s dangerous even when she’s hurt badly and that’s why I think the ref let it go as long as he did. That final punch that earned the stoppage may have been overkill, but the ref was giving her a chance to work. 

The mood after Roxanne lost was pretty crappy. We were elated that Jessica won and Team Rousey had gained control, but we were also extremely bummed for Roxy. There was no excessive celebration; everyone was just concerned that she was okay. Of course, being the awesome person she is, she immediately wanted to see Jessica and congratulate her. She truly is a good soul and a class act.

So finally, we got to pick the next fight and Ronda went with Davey Grant from our team against Louis Fissette of their team. She picked Davey because he was ready and had been asking for a fight. He was peaking in training, which is great because that’s when you get the best performance in the cage.

He’s kind of a goofy guy, and a bit of a roughneck in training. He spars hard, wrestles hard, fights hard and overall trains hard. He loves to bang and he loves to get in there and go. We knew he had to get in there and fight right away.

Louis was the guy who lost to Holdsworth in the fight to get into the house but took Timmy Gorman’s spot when he got injured. We viewed Louis as their weakest fighter, so that’s why we chose him. That being said, his fight with Holdsworth showed he could go hard and would probably be a tough opponent. 

We had a ton of confidence in Davey, which was great for me because, if he won and we retained the pick, I would get the next fight. I was supposed to be next if Chris Beal had won, but that didn‘t happen. Of course, I was feeling very confident Davey could win, so my excitement started building just knowing I’d have a fight of my own very soon.

 

**Tune in next week to hear Jessamyn’s thoughts on the continued tension between coaching staffs, more in-depth stories from the house and her thoughts on the fight between Davey Grant and Louis Fissette as well as the next female fight pick.

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Note: All quotes and material were obtained firsthand by Bleacher Report through one-on-one between Jessamyn Duke and Bleacher Report’s Riley Kontek.

 

When episode three begins, the shock of Shayna’s loss was still lingering for pretty much everyone in the house. Despite that, no one could deny that Julianna had done exactly what she needed to do to win and that it was still an exciting match. Afterwards, Miesha brought some treats to the house for Julianna but also brought something for Shayna, which I thought was a nice gesture.

Those of us on Team Rousey didn’t get to hang out with the other coaches that much, and even though Miesha came over to the house to bring post-fight treats, she was still there to support her fighter and not hang with everyone else. I didn’t really know Miesha going into the show and, being on Ronda’s team, I didn’t really get to interact with her much. Most of what I know about her came from what the other team said about her, but she seemed nice enough.

As our time in the house progressed, Julianna’s personality began to rub a lot of people the wrong way. She liked attention, and it showed, but I don’t think she really cared what kind of attention it was. One second she would be fine and the next she would turn around and say something vulgar or inappropriate.

She was also vocal in the fact that she didn’t care what people thought of her. She would randomly blurt out stuff like, “I don’t give a f*ck what you guys think of me,” in the middle of an otherwise pleasant group conversation. We would be like, “we don’t care, we didn’t ask you.”

She made it really difficult to hang out with her. What they showed in the episode was really just the beginning. The guys even had a sign on their door that said, “Julianna stay out!” that they all signed. She would regularly go through their room late at night and early in the morning to use their bathroom, which really got under their skin.

The day after Shayna’s fight, Ronda gave us a very motivational speech, but they didn’t show the whole thing. The gist of what she said to us was that you have to own every single second of your fight. You can’t lose focus.

Going into TUF, I was already focused and ready to go, but some wind was taken out of everyone’s sails after seeing Shayna lose. It was very sobering to see what could happen if you don’t truly own every single second.

After hearing what Ronda had to say, I was completely inspired, focused and ready to go. “Every Single Second,” became our team mantra. It was like someone hit the reset button. She brought the team back together after a devastating loss, and it still felt like we were the better, more cohesive team.

Ronda is just a natural leader, and we all responded to what she said to us that day. Training after that was incredible. Everyone was pushing it to new levels. Even Shayna was right there training with us the next day after her loss because she had promised Ronda that she would be the hardest-working fighter in practice.

The other team accusing Julianna of giving away fight picks was hilarious. What actually happened wasn’t even remotely close to the treason the other team imagined. First off, there are only a handful of female fighters there to pick from. You have eight girls, four on each team, two of which had just fought. That means only six of us are left, so it wasn’t exactly rocket science to picture likely matchups.

Everyone had to constantly be ready to weigh in because the fight picks are so close together. You could be chosen and not even know it, so everyone was constantly making sure to keep their weight down. I saw Raquel Pennington on the scale checking her weight, so I jokingly said, “I know what you’re doing there checking your weight!”

Raquel replied nervously, “What are you talking about?” Cody Bollinger and Sarah Moras overheard me saying that and thought I had inside information. I think that’s where they thought I knew the matchups. But in reality, we were all checking our weight and making sure we were ready for a fight in the next couple of days.

I think Cody was really just looking for a reason to give Julianna crap, so he called her out in the van. When Julianna turned it on Roxanne Modafferi, there was an uproar. To think that Roxy would betray her team was ridiculous. She was easily the most honorable character of anyone in the house, so everyone got defensive of her.

The entire premise was ridiculous. I mean seriously, if I knew anything, I certainly wasn’t going to tell their team. I’d tell my team and make sure they didn’t have a clue. So while I feel bad Roxanne got some unwarranted heat, it was kind of funny that one small comment caused such a stir for Team Tate.

Am I the only one that found Julianna and Chris Holdsworth flirting to be extremely awkward? I hadn’t seen a lot of flirting between them, but I heard she wrote him a “love letter” before Chris’ fight. When we would talk to Chris about it, he played it off like it was nothing. From watching the footage, though, he really was enjoying flirting with her!

That was really the only male-female flirting interaction that I noticed on the show, but I found it funny when Holdsworth mentioned “friends with benefits,” and Julianna’s response was, “Yep, all about it.” Well, she did say she wasn’t looking to find a boyfriend on the show.

Over the weekend, we got treated to watching UFC in Brazil. It was super nice that they brought us to the Red Rock to get out of the house and watch the fights. We really got the royal treatment. They brought in all this fancy food, had an open bar and it was really cool.

However, they did this on a Saturday, and Beal and Holdsworth had to weigh in the next day. We all knew the next women’s matchup would be announced Monday, with the weigh-in on Tuesday. So, the girls couldn’t really enjoy the food either because we had an impending weigh-in.

That being said, we destroyed the fruit and veggy platers. They had pizza and stuff like that, but that was off limits to people watching their weight. As for the drinking, some people had a few drinks, but didn’t get too ripped. I don’t drink during fight camp, so I didn’t go near it. Most of us were just thinking about our upcoming fights.

Of course the major event from the Red Rock was the confrontation between Miesha and Ronda. There was a major change of energy in the air and everything went from watching the fights on TV to the one at the bar. I couldn’t hear what they were talking about, but I saw Ronda at the bar and saw Miesha wedge herself between her and Bryan Caraway.

Their body language told the story. Then I heard Ronda call for coach Edmond and the Armenian mafia, as we called them. It was intense because they just came through the crowd and we thought a brawl was going to break out.

All of the assistant coaches from each team were involved. It was a much bigger crowd than it seemed on the episode. It appeared that Bryan mouthed off to Ronda, so she mouthed off right back. Then Miesha showed up to defend her boyfriend, and we all know Ronda’s feeling on that situation, so things intensified.

The comments about Ronda’s lack of striking in combination with Bryan’s comments a year ago about knocking Ronda’s teeth down her throat set Edmond off, and he was ready to throw down right there.

Miesha knows exactly how to push Ronda’s buttons, and Ronda isn’t afraid to react. The cameras were always focused on Ronda’s reaction, though, so usually what people see is her going off and think it’s unwarranted. If you piss Ronda off, she’ll tell you. She won’t hold back. So in that situation, Miesha knew how to push her buttons and Ronda reacted. Luckily the situation defused, but it wasn’t the end.

Fight time came around and Chris Holdsworth took on my teammate Chris Beal. Once the cage door closed, you could tell Beal wasn’t himself. If you’ve ever watched him fight, he just throws bombs. When he got in there, he was hesitating and letting the longer fighter hit him with punches.

You could really tell his hand was hurt. He did a good job defending takedowns and moving in the cage, but you could tell he was holding back. He thought he was going to be able to throw his hand, but he just couldn’t.

Team Tate got what they were counting on. They knew his hand was hurt and that he couldn’t throw at 100 percent. That’s not to take away from Holdsworth‘s performance though, because he did a great job. He threw crisp punches and set up takedowns well. He did exactly what he needed to do, and when he dropped Beal, he went for the kill with that guillotine choke.

He showed great striking, timing and submission ability in that fight. However, it was still hard to see Beal lose and not be himself. That’s the first loss he’s ever experienced, and he was forced to go through it without the normal support system. So, Team Rousey rallied around him, and we worked together to pick him back up after a hard loss.

Fight picks came and Miesha picked Roxanne to face Jessica Rakoczy. Had we won that fight, Ronda told me I was fighting next. I didn’t know who against, but Marina Shafir hinted it might be Sarah Moras. So, I was really ready to fight and had been cutting weight. I was prepared to weigh in 24 hours later, but my weight cuts aren’t easy.

However, when Beal lost, I was confident I wasn’t going to be next. Constantly staying on weight was extremely taxing on my body and one of the things about the show I didn’t anticipate. But, it was part of the game and it was our job to adapt.

Miesha‘s picks didn’t really surprise us because both fighters were the two smallest girls. They wanted to give Roxanne the best fight they could, especially because Peggy and I were the only other two options, and we are huge (6’1″ and 5’11” respectively).

That being said, Jessica vs. Roxy would have been the fight we would have picked, just not next. We wanted to give Jessica more time to train for various reasons.

Roxanne is one of the most legit ground fighters on the show and a veteran of the sport. Jessica is an extremely decorated boxer with nearly 40 pro boxing bouts and eight world titles. The fight would be the ultimate striker vs. grappler match and when I heard Jessica tell Ronda, “I got this,” I believed her.

 

**Tune in next week to hear Jessamyn’s thoughts on the continued tension between coaching staffs, more in-depth stories from the house and her thoughts on the fight between Roxanne Modafferi and Jessica Rakoczy, as well as the next male fight pick.

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