Pulling for Pulver

I’ve always liked BJ Penn as a fighter. His MMA skills are world-class. His stand up game is pretty solid, just ask George St. Pierre. His ground skills, sick. Endurance? Well, that’s another story. When I heard that BJ was going to be a coach on The Ultimate Fighter television show, I knew I’d be pulling for his team. However, on the first episode of TUF, BJ pulled a dick move by asking all of the fighters to raise their hands if they wanted to be on his team. Because Penn is so respected in MMA, almost all of the fighters raised their hands. I know this pissed the hell out of Jens Pulver, rightfully so. That’s a total bitch slap to the face. But, Little Evil handled himself fairly well. The next dick move was when he tried to get one of his fighters to call out Corey Hill before Jens made the next fight match-up announcement. BJ is starting to turn this into WWF instead of a legit sporting contest. Pulver has been a motivating coach so far and is 2 for 2. I wonder in the end how many of those in BJ’s camp will be a little regretful they dismissed Jens so quickly as a coach.