Tank Abbott and Drew Fickett, Seperated at Birth

Inside MMA is both really great and really terrible.
Here's a little cheatsheet to tell if something is the former or the latter.
If it takes place inside the studio it will suck, if it is a satellite interview or with Ron Kruck it will be good, very good.

Interviews with MMA stars is really something you can't get anywhere else on TV and the highlights from smaller shows that gets shown every work are fabulous and really give the sense that MMA is a growing sport with events going on all over the place every weekend.

The in studio panel is often made up of only one real contributor each week, while fighters are good for interviews when discussing their own fights and what's coming up for them they aren't usually much good when discussing other fighters, or rankings. Fighters are generally too busy and focused on their own doings to have a good grasp on what's going on elsewhere in the world of MMA. Guys like Chuck Liddell and Andrei Arlovski have come off as quiet, soft-spoken, nice guys but haven't really had anything to say about current events.

Lucia Rijker on last weeks show was probably as bad as it can get as she obviously didn't follow MMA and had never seen the show before. She told enthralling stories about how she forgot her notes so couldn't comment on rankings, asked why the PFC show was in a ring and not a cage, and asked why they were only showing still shots of the UFC event.

There are some exceptions to the in-studio stuff as Bas is great at everything he does (except beating Kevin Randleman, but that's a whole other story) and some studio guests have been very good like Josh Gross and Ken Pavia, who in addition to being informative displayed chemistry between themselves, Chuck, and Bas.

Kenny Rice is...well there's no real way to describe Kenny. He's awkward, inaccurate, and laughs like a psycho with little provocation. He makes me straight up cringe at least twice an episode which isn't a big deal, when faced with embarassing situations I've always been good at throwing up my earmuffs like I was Randy Couture and lalala-ing until it appears that Kenny has stopped talking.

Acting like Jeffrey Dahmer with a fixation on Compustrike numbers instead of eating young Filipino boys isn't all that terrible, it just takes some getting used to....what I can't get used to is not knowing anything about MMA when your job is that very thing.

Let me set the scene, the panel is Tank Abbott, Jake Shields, and odds maker Nick Kalikas.
They're discussing the riveting Tank/Kimbo fight, and how Kimbo is a 4:1 favorite when Kenny directs a rambling question to Shields about the Tank fight and welterweights....or something.

Jake proceeds to talk about his upcoming fight with Drew Fickett and talks him up as a tough opponent and lists some of the fighters he has beaten like Koscheck, Florian, and Josh Neer.

Now either Kenny wasn't really listening, has no idea who any of those three are, or truly believes that despite Tank has only won once since 1998 that he has somehow beaten those three much lighter fighters at some point when they were like 16 years old. As he responds
"Wow I think you just tilted that line back towards Tank a little" followed by a laugh and a face that has to been seen to believed. Now cut to Jake Shields confused face and to me having to leave the room. I just couldn't stand to listen to the fallout but I imagine it involved more of Kenny Rice laughing and pretending he was making a joke.

Seriously if it was found that Kenny Rice murdered cats and dogs whilst keeping Compustrike scores on his conquests (Kenny landed one literal hammer strike and one acid bath in round one Buster the dog was unsuccessful on all thirteen of his submission attempts)

Well I wouldn't be all that surprised.