UFC's the Ultimate Fighter: Video of the 5 Wussiest Moments in TUF History

Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter series is intended to showcase the up-and-comers in the sport of mixed martial arts on their way to the sport’s biggest promotion, the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

But what we’ve seen hasn’t always showcased the toughness normally displayed by the athletes in MMA. In fact, sometimes what we’ve seen has been a downright pathetic display of grown men acting like wussies.

As we go a week deeper into Season 13, let’s take a trip down memory lane as we relive the top five wussiest moments in the history of TUF.

5. Bobby Southworth Needs to be Forced to Cut Weight

TUF Season: 3

The Wuss: Bobby Southworth

The very first season of The Ultimate Fighter produced more future UFC talent than any since. Bobby Southworth was not one of those talents.

It’s not that Southworth didn’t have the talent to compete, but he didn’t seem to have the dedication to be successful.

In this episode of The Ultimate Fighter, Southworth needed to cut weight for a preliminary fight against Lodune Sincaid. It wasn’t a particularly large weight cut, but judging by the way Southworth acted during it, you’d think he was dropping 25 pounds.

Southworth complained about getting in a sauna to cut water weight and later needed to almost be begged by Josh Koscheck and coach Chuck Liddell to stay in there and finish. At one point, he even tried to escape and Liddell needed to hold the door closed.

Through the forcefulness of his teammates, Southworth made weight and eventually knocked out Sincaid in his fight.

Still, the wussiness about cutting weight cannot be denied.

4. Tait Fletcher and Kristian Rothaermel Decline to Replace Matt Hamill in Semi-Finals 

TUF Season: 3

The Wuss(es): Kristian Rothaermel and Tait Fletcher

Despite his disconnect with many of the other cast members, Season 3 of The Ultimate Fighter looked to be Matt Hamill’s to lose.

But after defeating Mike Nickels in a fight, Hamill went to the hospital to tend to an injury he sustained in the fight; he received the news that the doctors would not clear him to fight again in the competition.

With Mike Nickels not being able to fight due to an injury himself, Dana White turned to both Tait Fletcher and Kristian Rothaermel, who turned down the opportunity to re-join the competition. The Ultimate Fighter is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and these two fighters decided that, to quote Dana White, they “didn’t want to be [expletive] fighters.”

Thankfully, Ross Pointon saved the day by manning up and moving up to light heavyweight despite originally joining the competition as a middleweight.

3. Jesse Taylor Smashes Limo Window, Terrorizes Female Hotel Patrons

TUF Season: 7

The Wuss: Jesse Taylor

It takes a tough man to become a mixed martial arts fighter. It takes an even tougher man to make it all the way to the finals of The Ultimate Fighter.

But it takes a special kind of wuss to do what Jesse Taylor did after he made it to the finals in Season 7.

One night in Las Vegas prior to competing in the finals of the show, Taylor became belligerently drunk and smashed the window of a limousine. But even worse, he began “terrorizing” females inside a hotel. When security tried to confront him, Taylor became even more outraged and started yelling about how he was a “UFC fighter.”

He was no longer a UFC fighter after that night as Dana White kicked him off the show.

2. Gabe Ruediger Misses Weight

TUF Season: 5

The Wuss: Gabe Ruediger

When he entered The Ultimate Fighter, Gabe Ruediger was considered one of the favorites due to the fact that he had already previously fought in the UFC. But what we didn’t count on was him acting like a complete wuss when it came time to fight.

Unlike fighters in the past who have gone up or down in weight to be on the show, Ruediger was fighting at his natural weight of 155 pounds. But when it came time for Ruediger to compete in his first fight on the show, weight became a huge issue.

Some say that Ruediger was scared to fight his opponent, Corey Hill, who had been getting in his face and smack-talking prior to the fight.

During the fifth episode of the season, Ruediger was shown eating ice cream cake in the days leading up to the fight, displaying a complete lack of commitment to making weight. After going to the hospital for extreme exhaustion and being released because he was “healthy,” Ruediger tried to request a procedure to flush the fecal matter from his body in order to make weight.

The next day, UFC President Dana White kicked him off the show. Ruediger proceeded to cry his eyes out before leaving the house.

1. Noah Inhofer Quits Because His Girlfriend Cheated on Him

TUF Season: 3

The Wuss: Noah Inhofer

Just six episodes into Season 3 of TUF, Team Ortiz’s Noah Inhofer received a letter, informing him that his girlfriend back home had cheated on him.

It was never explained how he received the letter, given the show’s strict “no outside communication” policy, but the light heavyweight from Yankton, SD took the news like a complete wuss.

Certainly getting cheated on isn’t good news, and it’s something that’s going to hurt no matter who you are, but you can’t let it get in the way of your dreams.

He went on a rampage, demanding to be allowed to use a telephone to call the cheating girlfriend, but was told that he knew the no-outside-contact rules and would not be permitted to call her.

Inhofer had already defeated Jesse Forbes in the first fight of the season and looked to be one of the favorites to make it to the finals if he stuck around.

UFC President, Dana White, spoke to Inhofer and tried to reason with him, explaining that this was the opportunity of a lifetime. Inhofer couldn’t handle the situation, though, and decided to leave the show.

Noah Inhofer was trying to become a UFC fighter and he completely blew it by being the biggest wuss in TUF history.