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Dramatic Seizure on The Ultimate Fighter 21 Sends Contestant Home
Reality television documents unscripted real-life situations featuring a cast of contestants, but often times the “reality” isn’t exactly real. Participants are typically isolated away from any contact with the general public and temporarily removed from the current events happening in the world.
Every now and then something occurs during the filming that cracks the fabricated reality façade, and reminds the contestants that there are things more important than their reality show pursuits.
The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians pits two rival training camps against each other, but there was no team mentality when American Top Team member Steve Montgomery suffered a seizure while preparing to cut weight during this week’s episode.
Panic and concern were spread across team lines when the 24-year-old shook uncontrollably, while teammates who came to his assistance pleaded for help and urged someone to call 9-1-1.
“It didn’t look good. It didn’t look good at all,” said American Top Team member Steve Carl following the dramatic incident.
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“I thought he was going to die. He was purple,” recounted teammate Nathan Coy. “I think when you put things in perspective, it makes what we’re going through in the house seem like nothing.”
“It was one of the scariest and most helpless things I’ve ever seen,” said Montgomery’s teammate Hayder Hassan.
Fortunately, Montgomery didn’t suffer long-term damage, although the incident seemed life threatening.
“I did my weight cut incorrectly. I drank way too much water, and like an idiot I didn’t put any electrolytes in it and actually diluted all the sodium in my body, so I suffered a seizure,” explained Montgomery.
“Luckily I didn’t have any brain damage; no side-effects other than the seizure I had. But they’re making me leave,” he added.
Montgomery came into the season with the goal of becoming a UFC fighter. While those aspirations seemed dashed following the seizure, UFC president Dana White said “Creepy Steve” would get a shot in the organization.
“It’s an unfortunate situation with ‘Creepy Steve.' I understand that this is this kid’s dream to fight in the UFC, but I’ll take health and safety over the dream every day of the week,” said White. “If this kid can stay healthy, we’ll give him a shot in the UFC.”
