Tito’s tough love makes him the Huntington Beach Not As Bad As I Thought Boy

I hate to admit it, but Tito Ortiz isn’t the worst thing about the new season of The Ultimate Fighter. Not yet anyway. To be fair, I’m actually warming to him a little bit. He appears to actually be trying to coach the fighters and he’s doing a pretty good job of it (despite his Mayhem Miller-wannabe douche-fighter losing the first bout official bout of the season). I know it’s still very early, but I’m not ready to write him off just yet.

And the fighters seem to have some skills, a little experience, some raw talent, reasonably tolerable personalities and they’re in shape, which is especially important after the camera-unfriendly heavyweight season (they say the camera adds 10 pounds and they must’ve shot that show with about 20 of them). On the down side, anybody else notice the slightly glazed expression and general jitteriness of Chuck Liddell?