Paul Georgieff - Episodes

Episodes

Episode 1 - Don't You Tap

• Roman Mitichyan fractures his elbow during the evaluation session and was replaced by Jon Koppenhaver.
• Team Hughes picks the first fight.
• Mac Danzig submits Joe Scarola by triangle choke at 4:54 of the first round.

Episode 2 - I Need You, Bro

• Team Serra chooses the second fight.
• Scarola considers leaving the house.
• Matt Arroyo submits Dorian Price by rear naked choke at 1:48 of the first round.

Episode 3 - It's About Character

• Team Hughes chooses Billy Miles to fight John Kolosci.
• Both teams watch UFC 72.
• Matt Serra and Joe Scarola have a talk about Scarola still wanting to leave the house.
• Upon returning from UFC 72, Dana White has a talk with Scarola.
• Scarola decides to leave the house. He also loses his job back at home teaching at Serra's academy due to his departure.
• Kolosci submits Miles in the first round by guillotine choke at 2:56 of the first round.

Episode 4 - Get Out Of My Face

• Frustrated by Miles' lack of effort in his fight, Matt Hughes puts his team through a strenuous workout.
• Team Serra chooses Richie Hightower to fight Blake Bowman
• Price has a confrontation with members of the filming crew. White allows him to stay, but warns if it happens again, he will be sent home.
• After workouts, a cake is delivered to the house for Bowman's birthday, and Koppenhaver takes the initiative to decorate it for Bowman. Then all the fighters celebrate his birthday together at the house.
• Mac Danzig expresses how much he dislikes Hightower, saying that he is not even sure what Hightower is doing here.
• Hightower defeats Bowman at 0:49 of the first round by technical knock out (strikes).

Episode 5 - Not A Real Fighter

• The Fighters get to watch the Finale of TUF 5.
• Danzig goes off on Bowman after they watch the replay of Bowman's friend, Cole Miller defeat Danzig's friend, Andy Wang, by technical knock out in the TUF 5 Finale. He tells Bowman, "you aren't a real fighter, just a hick from Alabama, or wherever the f*** you're from."
• Paul Georgieff receives news from his mother, after Matt Hughes arrives at the house and allows him a phone call, that his 19-year-old cousin has died.
• White allows Georgieff to fly home for the funeral, only if he fights before he leaves.
• Because of the circumstances, Team Hughes chooses Georgieff to fight Troy Mandaloniz.
• Bowman tells all the fighters what Danzig said to him earlier, and all the other fighters agree with Bowman and think it was completely uncalled for Danzig to say that about him for no reason. Ben Saunders says he considers Bowman a fighter just like everyone else who is here.
• Hughes gets wind of what happened at the house, and he has a talk with his team the next day during practice, calling out Danzig and saying that he should apologize.
• Saunders, Mandaloniz, and Koppenhaver draw Danzig's face on a milk carton while Team Hughes is away at practice, and they repeatedly beat it all throughout the house.
• Mandaloniz defeats Georgieff by knock out (punch) at 2:39 of the first round.
• Team Hughes must win the next three fights to get the power of choosing the quarterfinal fights.

Episode 6 - It's All A Test

• Team Serra chooses Saunders to fight Dan Barrera.
• The fighters on Team Hughes continuously say that Barerra goes harder than he should in practice.
• Georgieff arrives back from his cousin's funeral.
• On the van ride back to the house, Barrera and all the other fighters on Team Hughes discover that Barerra's hand is very swollen, and none of them know how, and when during training, it happened. He goes to the doctor to get it checked out, and the doctor clears him for the fight—he only has some soft tissue damage and swelling.
• White allows Barrera to call his wife because of a family emergency. Barrera's wife says she had some sort of panic attack, which he thinks was a seizure. He later tells White, "it's all a test" and God is testing him and his family
• Saunders defeats Barrera by Majority Decision after two rounds.
• Hughes complained to Nevada Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer about what he perceived to be poor judging after the bout, and both Serra and White stated they felt the fight should have gone into the third round.
• On a recommendation from Arroyo, White gives both fighters a $5,000 bonus for the fight stating that he hates it when fighters "lose an opportunity."
• With Saunders' win, Team Serra gains the ability to decide the quarterfinal match-ups.

Episode 7 - The Game Plan

• Hughes, frustrated after five straight losses, goes off on his team and Barrera and nearly walks off the show.
• Team Hughes chooses Jared Rollins to fight George Sotiropoulos leaving Tom Speer to fight Koppenhaver.
• Team Serra turns on Sotiropoulos for not waking them up. Saunders says that the Australian is only here for himself.
• Rollins injures his ribs at practice before the fight, and becomes very emotional because he does not want to unable to fight. After going to the doctor, Rollins tells his teammates he only has bruised ribs, and the doctor cleared him to fight.
• Saunders and Sotiropoulos get into a verbal disagreement over the Australian not waking his team up for the second consecutive day.
• Sotiropoulos defeats Rollins by technical knock out (strikes) at 3:48 of the first round.
• Rollins takes the loss very hard and is very emotional. White consoles him and tells him that he has nothing to be upset about, and that he "fought his ass off."

Episode 8 - War Machine

• Matt Hughes smacks Speer across the face and repeatedly tries to get him to show more fire. Hughes wants him to show more emotion not only in his training, but also in his upcoming fight.
• Koppenhaver becomes upset when Serra continuously coaches Sotiropoulos and not him, and believes that he is being treated unfairly. Serra then sits Koppenhaver down and tries to help him with the mental aspect of fighting.
• During Team Serra's training session, Serra mocks Hughes by imitating him, saying he looks like a chipmunk, and makes fun of his fight with Georges St. Pierre at UFC 65.
• Koppenhaver reveals to the rest of his team that he witnessed his father die from a heart attack when he was only 13 years old.
• Speer defeats Koppenhaver by decision after 2 rounds, despite an early fury from Koppenhaver, in which he opened a cut and nearly submitted Speer with a rear naked choke.
• If not for the cut being so bad, with a massive amount of blood which made the bodies more slippery, Team Serra believes that Koppenhaver would have submitted Speer.

Episode 9 - Karma

• During selections for the quarterfinals, Serra wants the two Team Hughes advancees (Danzig and Speer) to fight each other, but his fighters want otherwise.
• The fights that Team Serra choose are: Danzig vs. Kolosci, Arroyo vs. Mandaloniz, Sotiropoulos vs. Hightower, and Saunders vs. Speer.
• Dana White tells Team Serra that since four members of the blue team are fighting each other, two of them will be cornered and trained by Matt Hughes for their fights. Serra decides not to pick which guys he wants to send to Hughes.
• Many of the fighters express that they are becoming sick of Danzig and his bipolar mood swings. Danzig orders a hummingbird feeder and hangs it outside on a lightpole, and other fighters, such as Koppenhaver, move it around various places in the backyard to intentionally make Danzig angry. Later that night, Danzig has a heart-to-heart with Bowman, and decides to take a more positive approach to his experience on the show. He then promises to be nice to Bowman for the rest of the time they are on the show.
• The next day, after the weigh-ins, it is determined by coin toss that Hightower and Arroyo will be cornered and trained by Hughes for their quarterfinal fights.
• Hightower and Arroyo approach the Team Hughes coaches and tell them that they both plan to continue training with Team Serra.
• In the first quarterfinal match, Danzig defeats Kolosci by rear naked choke at 3:55 of the first round.

Episode 10 - Nothing To Lose

• Kolosci gets drunk and takes the house apart after his loss. With the recommendation of Koppenhaver, Kolosci and he throw the foosball table into the pool. Kolosci then proceeds to throw anything and everything he can find into to pool—finally, he headbutts a tree.
• Serra tells Mandaloniz and Sotiropoulos that he will not be cornering them in their fights against their fellow members of the blue team.
• Hughes calls Serra unprofessional for choosing not to corner Mandaloniz and Sotiropoulous.
• White takes both teams to the Red Rock Bowling Lanes for the Coaches Challenge this season. He then says Serra and Hughes will bowl for a box containing $10,000. Plus, each fighter on the winning team will get $1,500. Hughes asks White to double that amount to $3,000 for each fighter. After watching Hughes bowl, White says he will do it if Hughes throws a strike with his next ball, which he does. However, Serra ends up winning the bowling competition in the last frame with help from his corner (Arroyo). Hughes immediately leaves the bowling alley after he loses.
• Arroyo submits Mandaloniz by armbar at 1:06 in the first round.
• Sotiropoulos submits Hightower by Kimura at 4:07 in the first round.

Episode 11 - Upper Decker

• Speer is worried that he may not be cleared to fight due to how badly his face is bruised and cut up from his last fight against Koppenhaver.
• During the time Team Hughes was at their training session, Hightower, Mandaloniz and Koppenhaver decided to play a prank after they have been drinking, in which a person puts their feces in the toilet's tank, so when someone flushes the toilet, the feces washes up into the bowl (known as an "upper decker").
• When Team Hughes returns to the house, Danzig gets annoyed with Hightower and says he laughs like Fran Drescher.
• When Rollins finds out about the upper decker, he kicks in Koppenhaver's door and confronts the three about it. Rollins slaps Koppenhaver across the head and rips his hat off, so Koppenhaver tackles him down onto the bed. They eventually resolve the conflict and Koppenhaver and Mandaloniz clean up the upper decker.
• Speer defeats Ben Saunders by unanimous decision after the second round.
• Semifinal matches will be Danzig vs. Arroyo and Sotiropoulos vs. Speer.

Episode 12 - Do You Want This Fight?

• Arroyo injures a rib in training and decides to pull out of his fight against Danzig.
• Kolosci is the only Team Serra fighter who expressed excitement at the prospect of replacing Arroyo, so he is picked to face Danzig for the second time.
• In the first semifinal fight, Danzig submits Kolosci by rear naked choke at 4:28 in round one (for the second time, with exactly the same type of submission).
• In the second fight, Speer defeats Sotiropoulos by knock out (strikes) at 2:57 in the first round.
• Danzig and Speer, both from Team Hughes, are the final fighters standing and will face off in the final.