For my money, Jens Pulver and Matt Serra were 1A & 1B, mostly because of the respect and interest they took with their guys. Both seemed to care and worked to build each other up. You could say that Serra was a defacto coach on TUF 4 also, and he helped alot of those guys out well too. From the articles / blogs about Serra's guys on the show, they all love him and he had actually talked a few of them out of dropping their camps to come train w/ him. Pulver was much of the same.
Tito did an outstanding job with outstanding talent, and its he looked so much better when matched up w/ Ken who didn't do shit for his fighters but break their spirits. Guys like Tait Fletcher were likely ruined by Ken's attitude. At least Ken gave us all a constant reminder of who had "the hammer".
The first 2 seasons w/ Rich, Randy, & Chuck are kind of a washout because all of those guys (at least the memorable ones) came from established camps and we didn't get to see alot of coaching sessions.
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