TUF’s Zak Jensen facing wrongful death suit

As if the bar for The Ultimate Fighter couldn’t get any lower, current cast member Zak Jensen is facing a wrongful death lawsuit following the death of a Minnesota college student while on spring break in Mexico.

According to the Stillwater Gazette, the family of the late Josh Gunderson filed the suit on Thursday claiming negligence in Gunderson’s death.

I’m not going to go into this in too much detail. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth, has nothing to do with MMA, and nothing has been proven one way or another in regards to Jensen’s culpability. The basics seem to be that Jensen, a friend named Ashley Jones and Gunderson were in Puerto Vallarta in March. Gunderson may have attacked Jones, or at the very least come on too strongly, gotten physical, and when she screamed Jensen intervened. The exact nature of the intervention is unclear, although Gunderson did end up dead. Jensen was questioned by Mexican police at the time and released and the death was ruled accidental. Autopsy reports show that Gunderson had a 0.12 blood alcohol level and the cause of death was that he choked on “gastric contents” and died.

What we can learn from all of this is that bad things happen in Mexico. It’s like Turistas down there.