"Embarrassing, Predictable, and Sad" - Fan reactions sum up Team Michael Chandler's 0-4 domination over Team Conor McGregor at TUF 31

By Imran

Modified Jun 21, 2023 10:32 GMT

image source: @thenotoriousmma, Instagram — TUF 31 is underway [Image source: @thenotoriousmma on Instagram]

Team Chandler continues to steamroll Team McGregor on season 31 of The Ultimate Fighter. Michael Chandler's team took a 4-0 lead over Conor McGregor's in the recently concluded episode of TUF 31, and fans are seemingly unhappy with the season so far.

In the latest episode, Team McGregor's Trevor Wells came up short against Team Chandler's Timur Valiev, notching 'Iron's fourth win as a coach this season. Lightweights Roosevelt Roberts and Austin Hubbard, and bantamweight fighter Cody Gibson previously came good for Chandler in the first few episodes.

Fans erupted on Twitter after Team McGregor slumped to a 4-0 deficit, with many slamming the season as a whole, the format, and the Irishman's apparent lack of interest. One fan lambasted the format, writing:

Conor McGregor's training partner is set to take on his team in the next episode of TUF 31

Conor McGregor will be coaching against his Straight Blast Gym teammate Brad Katona in the next episode of TUF 31.

Two of McGregor's SBG Ireland stablemates, lightweight prospect Lee Hammond and bantamweight veteran Brad Katona, joined the TUF 31 cast at the beginning of the show. Hammond got drafted onto McGregor's team, while Katona, a former TUF winner, was forced to join Team Chandler courtesy of the coin toss in the first episode.

Katona previously competed on TUF 27, winning the entire tournament, beating notable names along the way. He infamously handed featherweight stalwart Bryce Mitchell his first career loss. The 31-year-old former BRAVE CF bantamweight champion will take on Team McGregor's Carlos Vera in the next episode.

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Holding an M.A. degree in political science, Imran worked as a columnist for different dailies of J&K for six years before joining Sportskeeda as an MMA writer in 2023.
He finds Jon Jones’ career inspirational and has ‘Bones’ at the very top of his GOAT list. The other MMA fighters in his Mt. Rushmore are Georges St-Pierre, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Cain Valesquez, and Valentina Shevchenko.
Imran became an MMA fan after watching Brock Lesnar TKO Frank Mir at UFC 100 in July 2009 to avenge a submission defeat to Mir one year earlier.
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