Ok you guys are right, Marc Stevens and he is one of my coach's. But let me clear a couple things up for you. He is a top of the food chain legit Gracie Jiu Jitsu player who just got his brown belt. Trust me ........ He knows how to defend the Gilliotine. He has NEVER been put to sleep or submitted in any jiu jitsu tournament....... Or in practice as far as I can remember. He has nothing but praise for Cody being able to end him with it. In fact if you watch it again , you will see he cleared and was in side control, yes Cody had his leg hooked but it wasn't what crushed him. He says I have been in that spot a thousand times, there is no way anyone should be able to finish someone on top in side control, except for Cody and his unorthadox way of putting it on.
As far as being the cocky dick everyone is talking about, You guys are not seeing the real Marc. He is confident for sure !!!! But as he always tells any of his students who get into the ring, You better be confident, or you shouldn't be doing it. Lack of confidence and not trusting your training and skill level, is asking to get hurt when you get into a cage. Many of the cocky remarks are done in fun and he says it with a smile on his face. The cockiness not done for real, was in response to someone who started running there mouth first. Example . out on the deck of the house and the GSP team calling him MINI KOZ. I can tell you for sure that was in response to someone getting cocky with him...... and it was no act, Somebody/anybody talks shit to him, he will throw down. Has nothing to do with trying to impress somebody. Marc's laughing about it, he say's If they need a villain whatever. There have been way bigger duccie boys in the house. BRUCE LEROY come on, the guys the king of cocky clowns said and done way more things than coach ever has.......but people love him, don't get it.
The one that bothered me the most was the aftermath show with Cody. Calling Marc a bitch and a punk. Saying he was sorry it went to the ground because he wanted to keep it standing so he could cut him up.......and hurt him. PLEASE, I can't think he really wanted that. I can tell you after being around Marc a long time, because if that had been expressed to his face he would have gave him the chance . I guess thats whats getting me all these guys talking shit about him now, like he was some lucky chump that made it in the house, with one luck punch. When in fact I know he was looked at by coach's on both sides as one of the most experienced, well rounded, dangerous guys in the place. I know for sure You will never hear him say anything about anyone, thaty he wouldn't say to there face. Thats the kind of guy he is. I will bet money all the guys jumping on the band wagon in that house now, to call him a bitch and a punk ,never express that to his face on film in that house. If they were doing it it was in whispers behind his back........who's the bitch?
Ok now on to the truth about the fight. The one thing we could get out of coach, was that he wished he had ended up on GSP team. He felt they were coached extreamly well. Do you think he wanted to go to the ground with Cody ????? Hell no. Watch the fight again and the game plan GSP laid out. He sent Cody on a bull rush, force Marc to respond with muscle memory and not his brain. And for a wrestler since he was 5, muscle memory was shoot....like he said, no thought , his body just did it. Trust me, he has watched it over and over again. And I tell you guys to do that to, because if it had been a thought response, The kick was blocked and caught, one step to the right and unload that overhand right. Bang !!!!!! You have a replay of how he got into the house. Oh and there was no running that Cody was spouting off about. Marc wouldn't run from a bulldozer.
I know for sure...... This may be the best TUF ever. There are no Gabe Rudagers in that house. But if someone has to be the dick in the house, I guess my coach would be a good fit. Not because he is one, but because he has the attitude to handle it. Always with a smile.
So thats it, some of the inside scoop from what I know. And a student sticking up for his Sensei .
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