Originally posted on MMAOpinion.com.

If Dana White has any sense of decency, he will let every MMA fan line up and punch Junie Browning in the face. Hell, he could charge a buck and make a killing.

The reality is, the fights on this season weren’t bad, but it only takes one kick in the proverbial crotch to ruin the experience, and Browning supplied enough to sterilize the Iron Penis kung fu practitioners of China (for all of you Mind, Body and Kickass Moves junkies). Apart from spoiling his entire future in the sport by making himself a laughing stock (retiring after 2 pro fights? really?), while he could have a long and fruitful career as the guy everyone wants to see get the crap kicked out of him, Browning ruined the reputation of the show.

Dana White has said openly that he’s frustrated with the Spike Producers running the show, and while it’s hard to gauge how much influence they have from just watching, if I were Dana, I’d want Spike to fire the jackasses who put that show together. Still, Dana should have thrown Junie off the show, instead of pussyfooting around the issue, but producers should be aware that fans of the sport watch the show to see the sport, not to see the pranks.

The real problem, though, was that Dana failed to do what the preliminaries were intended for: to remove the pussies. To weed out the guys who didn’t want to be there. It seemed that nobody wanted to be there less than Junie Browning. How could Dana not see his ego in the preliminary interviews and say, “Wow, this guy is going to be a problem”? I saw that in the first episode, with all credit to his talent.

You’d think that Dana would have learned from the JT Money fiasco.

Bringing in talentless wastes of time like Jules Bruchez, who are years removed from a debut in the top MMA organization, just tries my patience. If I wanted to watch brawls, I’d pay strippers to flirt with two guys at the bar at the same time, but that’s not why I watch the show. I watch because I want to see the next Kenny Florian and the next Diego Sanchez and the next Forrest Griffin. I want to see fighters who want to push their skills, not ones who want to get drunk and put plates on the tennis court.

The show has devolved, going from fighters with five or ten career fights and respectable skill sets, legitimate talent (if that’s not too audacious to ask for) to fighters who want to be personalities. Some fighters are eccentric, like Forrest, but the Gabe Ruedigers and Andy Wangs of the world shouldn’t be allowed in the TUF gym.

In the third and fourth seasons we saw the infestation of this idea that you can get a career-long MMA gig purely by being a personality on a reality show. While I hope that in the future fighters who have no intent of learning to fight will stick to posting their street brawls on YouTube, it pisses me off that Dana is including them on the show -- that he would even invite Kimbo Slice on the show. Junie Browning was a skinny, white Kimbo Slice; all talk and no talent.

Perhaps I’m a snob, but if wanting to see great fights and up-and-coming talent makes me a snob than I’ll suffer happily under the burden of snobbishness, because there are worse things in life than having high expectations, like watching this last season of the Ultimate Fighter.