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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
On Tuesday's episode of The Ultimate Fighter, UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey made an appearance to give Team Sonnen a day of judo training in the midst of their preparations. Given the built in storyline of Kelvin Gastellum earning that coaching session with a win over Bubba McDaniel, they showed Rousey in some grappling exchanges with him and only a few others.
Team Sonnen's Uriah Hall said this week he was happy they didn't show his session with the Women's Champ that day, because it wound up being quite the humbling experience.
"I said to myself, 'I can get out of this,'" Hall said in an interview with the New York Post about tangling with Rousey. "Then she caught me and I was like, 'Oh my God, this [expletive] is real.'
"You can't grab her and if you do grab her, you're [expletive]"
Hall's been somewhat of a polarizing figure during this 17th season of the program. He holds one of the biggest highlights in the show's history with his spinning heel kick knockout over Adam Cella, but he's rubbed teammates and members of Team Jones the wrong way through the season.
Still, he took his licks from Rousey in stride, and was jokingly happy his comeuppance wasn't put into the show.
"Thank God they didn't show that, because she totally kicked my ass," he said.
Penick's Analysis: Rousey's going to be a very beneficial coach for the fighters of season 18 who make it to her team. Her judo knowledge is vast, and in her brief appearances on past seasons of the show she's been able to pass some of that knowledge on to people in clear and impressive ways. Hall was another fighter who found out first hand just how effective she can be with her most dangerous weapon, and it was another good segment from a season which has had many.
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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