The Ultimate Fighter 11: Episode 10 Recap

Dana tells Tavares that the fight was awesome and was worthy of being the finale. Tavares says he’s crushed, but he’s going to learn from the loss. The rest of the fighters applaud their efforts.

Dana brings in some U.S. Marines to train with the guys. The Marines put them through their own workouts and then let them spar with pugil sticks. Later, the Marines join the TUF guys back at the house for dinner. Sadly, nobody enlists in the Marines.

Time for a Team Franklin training session. The coaches work with McCray. This will be McCray’s fifth fight in six weeks, which Franklin thinks is crazy. Franklin says the coaches have collectively looked at what McCray does best and are helping him make small changes that will help him greatly in his fight. Franklin says that he doesn’t see the fight going much different than the first Josh/Kris fight, but says that Kris won’t be wasting energy in doing things he doesn’t need to be doing.

Back at the house, Yager and Tavares are conspiring to pull a prank on the rest of the house. Yager takes everybody’s left shoe and puts them outside. Tavares takes beans and rice and throws it on Hammortree and McKinney, who are sunbathing outside. Hammortree starts walking back inside and Yager throws a bag of flour at him. Well, this doesn’t sit kindly with Hammortree, who seeks out Yager upstairs. Hammortree empties a trash can onto Yager’s bed. Yager lies and tells Hammortree he didn’t do it, then empties rice and beans on Hammortree’s bed. Hammortree gets in his face and tells him to get out of his room.

Yager leaves, but not before drawing the ire of Kyacey Uscola. Yager keeps yapping, and Clayton McKinney points out that Yager quit during this fight. Everybody’s tired of Yager’s incessant trash-talk. Yager says he was rocked during the fight and didn’t quit. I wonder if he actually believes this stuff. Kyacey tells Yager to meet him outside.

Kyacey heads outside and waits for Yager, who is peering outside from his upstairs bedroom window and suddenly seems much more hesitant than he was just moments ago. Yager declines to go outside and fight. Kyacey says it’s just another fight that Yager didn’t show up for, and begs the UFC to give him Yager on the TUF Finale. Hammortree can’t find his left shoe and Yager says he doesn’t know what happens, so Hammortree begs the UFC to give him a shot at Yager on the Finale as well. Rich Attonito confronts Yager and says he wants his shoe back, so Yager meekly brings them back inside the house while saying that “everything has gone too far.”

Oh, and McKinney wants Yager on the Finale as well.

Yager says it’s unfair that everybody is pointing the finger at him, completely ignoring the fact that he did, in fact, steal the shoes. He says Dana will probably give him a list of people who want to fight him and he’ll get to pick whoever he wants to for the Finale.