‘TUF 23′ Recap: Episode 6

Eric Spicely is the member of Claudia Gadelha’s team who will be fighting by show’s end, but the drama surrounding Abdel Medjedoub is the early focal point. UFC President Dana White swings by the gym and picks the Canadian’s brain to see what the heck is going on in an effort to figure out to do. White and Medjedoub sit down on couches in a side room of the gym. Medjedoub is actually contemplating leaving the show because of the hell that broke loose last week with his wife at home. White decides to let him get on the phone with his wife; she is still demanding that the fighter leave the show immediately or else she’ll leave him. In an unprecedented move, White allows the fighter to leave the house to return home, try and take care of the mess and then return to Las Vegas before the next fight, which will be from Thursday to Sunday. “This is a real weird situation,” White tells the camera. “I don’t want to make him choose between his career and his marriage.” After Medjedoub leaves the house, the scene shifts to Team Joanna at the gym, where Elias Urbina is getting ready to fight. At 22 years old, he’s the youngest fighter of the season, and he was the last fighter picked. Hector Urbina, his older brother, was on “TUF 19,” and Elias reveals that he has two younger brothers who are as scrappy as the two “TUF” veterans in the family. It’s not long before Joanna Jedrzejczyk admits that Spicely is a very good grappler and that Urbina is very young and tall. The UFC champ says that Urbina must keep striking if he is to win. It doesn’t seem like Jedrzejczyk is overly confident in her fighter getting the team’s first win of the season. In the next scene, White says that either Khalil Rountree or Myron Dennis will replace Medjedoub if he doesn’t come back to the house. But, after a few days, Medjedoub returns to the house …

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