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The sixteen lightweights enter the new Ultimate Fighter House with optimism and curiosity as they scope out where they'll be residing over the next six weeks. Dana then chimes in with his analysis of the demeanor of the 155 lb. class calling them crazy mother******s with chips on their shoulders. Dana then introduces the two coaches for this season Jens Pulver and BJ Penn. Dana explains that the coaches have fought before and have some bad blood between them. Dana also reveals that like every prior season the coaches will fight each other at the end of the series, but this year will be different. Jens and BJ will fight on the live finale of The Ultimate Fighter. Next are the fighter evaluations and Jens is up first. During the Team Pulver evaluations, Joe Lauzon mentions that he's impressed with Nate Diaz and compares him to his older brother Nick, who is also a fighter. Nate Diaz reveals that his brother Nick actually started his fight career in Jens' camp so being on his team would be a natural fit for him. Cole Miller talks about how impressive the 6'4" Corey Hill was during the evaluations. According to Cole "Corey looks like a killer." At Team Penn's evaluation, BJ enters the training center and notices that all of the fighters are physically exhausted from Pulver's evaluation. BJ feels that Jens purposely exhausted the fighters so he wouldn't be able to get a good look at their fighting skills. BJ cuts the evaluation short and sends them back to the house. Later on in the evening, the fighters head back to the training center for the team selection. All of the fighters assemble in the training center and Dana announces how the process will work. He first flips a coin and Jens wins. Jens decides to pick the first fight instead of the first fighter. BJ then steps up and then offers the fighters a proposition. He states that whoever wants to be on his team and have nothing to do with Jens Pulver's team they should raise their hand now. At the fighter selection, BJ waits for a show of hands to see who wants to be on his team. BJ talks about how he knew he was putting the fighters on the spot, but he didn't care because he wanted to know who wanted to train with him 100 per cent. Jens stands silent as ten of the sixteen fighters raise their hands to be on BJ's team. Finally, Dana tells everybody to be quiet and tells BJ to pick one guy. BJ then selects Gray Maynard as his first pick. Jens selects Corey Hill as his first pick. BJ brings up the subject allowing the fighters to raise their hands again and Jens says, "let them do it." Dana wants to hear none of this and tells everybody to shut up. After much deliberation, the teams are put in place. Team Penn is: Gray Maynard, Matt Winman, Gabe Ruediger, Joe Lauzon, Rob Emerson, Any Wang, Allen Berube, Noah Thomas. Team Pulver is: Corey Hill, Nate Diaz, Brandon Melendez, Marlon Sims, Manny Gamburyan, Cole Miller, Brian Geraghty, Wayne Weems. On the van ride back to the house, Team Pulver starts talking smack about Team Penn. Corey Hill is especially geared up to fight Gabe, who he doesn't particular care for. Team Pulver, pumped up and united, confronts Team Penn as they enter the house. Corey immediately gets in Gabe's face telling him that he wants to fight him. Gabe is confused with Corey's behavior and doesn't understand what he has against him. Corey starts barking like a dog in Gabe's face and Gabe leaves the room. Team Penn gets up at the crack of dawn for the their first training session. BJ throws them into the fire as soon as they enter the gym. His coaching philosophy is to make their weaknesses smaller and make their strengths stronger. BJ introduces his coaching team. The kick boxing coach is Rudy Valentino, grappling coach is Tony DeSouza, and his brother Reagan will focus on Jiu Jitsu. BJ states that it is very important for his team to train hard and win this thing. After the session, Gabe Ruediger weighs himself and is twenty pounds over the weight limit. He expresses his concern that if the other team finds out that he's over that much that they'll try to exploit it by selecting him to fight first. At Team Pulver's first training session, Jens talks about how he plans to guide his fighters to the finals. He also says he's not going to be a tyrant, but at the same time he's going to keep his fighters in line. He then introduces his coaching team. Matt Pena is his boxing coach, Ty Kikuchi is a fighter from his Militich Camp, and then there's Kirk White who's the wrestling coach. After the session, Jens gathers his team to discuss who should fight first. Manny, Corey, and Cole all want to fight first. Jens is leaning towards Nate Diaz or Corey Hill for the first fight and plans on attacking either Allen Berube or Gabe Ruediger from Team Penn. Back at the house, Team Penn speculates on who they might pick. Ruediger definitely feels that he is a target due to his weight. The next day at the Team Penn training session BJ reveals that Gabe is twenty-two pounds overweight and if Team Pulver picks him to fight he's in big trouble. Gabe talks about how his weight isn't going down, instead it's going up a pound a day and he can't figure out why. After the training session, Gabe gets frustrated and emotional about the weight issue. Coach Rudy tries to calm him down, but Gabe is having a hard time holding back the tears. Rob Emerson isn't impressed with Gabe and calls him a pussy for crying. Later that day, all of the fighters assemble at the training center for the fight selection. Dana, the master of ceremonies, kicks things off by telling the fighters that this season they will have to fight three times in order to make it to the finals. He then asks Pulver what their first fight match up is. Jens walks to the center of the mat and points to Cole Miller who casually walks up to Allen Berube and calls him out. The next day, Team Pulver prepares Cole Miller for his fight with Allen Berube. Cole reveals some things about his background and how he thought it would take eight to ten years to make it in the UFC; and three years later, he's already here. Cole starts talking about how confident he is in his ability as a fighter and that he's on the show to put people away. He thinks Allen is here to be on TV and promote his restaurant, the Monster Lobster. Later on at Team Penn's training session, BJ prepares Berube for his fight. BJ talks about how Cole is one of the top prospects and it's going to be a hard fight for Berube. His plan is to teach Berube how to stay out of submissions and concentrate on his punching power. Berube reveals that he's only been training in MMA for a year and a half. He originally started to fight to help promote his restaurant and never dreamed that he end up on the show. The stage is set for the first preliminary fight for The Ultimate Fighter 5. Cole Miller stands across Allen Berube. The winner goes on to the quarterfinals. Round one starts off with Berube pushing the pace of the fight and Cole countering all of his moves. About a minute into the first round, Berube secures a take down, but almost gets caught in a guillotine choke. After escaping the choke Berube secures the top position, but then gets caught in a triangle choke which ends the fight. During the fight recap, Jens explains that he felt it was a good technical fight. BJ thought that Berube did the best that he could with the tools that he had to work with. He goes on to say that Cole performed a slick submission on Berube and Berube would've passed out if he didn't tap out. After the official announcement of his victory, Cole tells the viewers that he did exactly what he said he was going to do, no more, no less. As Berube prepares to leave the show, he talks about how he only got beat by a technique. It was a rookie mistake and he doesn't feel beat. Only his heart feels beat.