I Feel Bad For Frank Trigg

Poor Frank Trigg. He enters the UFC as one of the most decorated and respected wrestlers in the country. The four time wrestling All-American and Olympic finalist draws Matt Hughes for his first fight and has the champ beat...before giving up his back and submitting to a rear naked choke. After a brutal win over Renato Verissimo, he gets another shot at Hughes. This time around, he beats Hughes even worse, to the point where a referee stoppage would have been more than justified. Trigg then proceeds to lock in a rear naked choke on Hughes, the very move which did him in during his last fight! Of course, Hughes reverses this and submits Trigg...to a rear naked choke. Trigg's next fight, a mere two events later? Georges St. Pierre, the current champion. St. Pierre, of course, beats Trigg...with a rear naked choke. What can we take away from this? Well, other than the fact that Trigg was booked the hardest 4 fight stretch in UFC history, we can see that if he learned to defend the rear naked choke, just once...he'd probably be a UFC legend. Instead, as recently as 2005, Trigg appeared as a contestant on the VH1 reality television program "Kept" trying to win the affections of former supermodel Jerry Hall (Mick Jagger's ex) and to become Jerry's kept man. Trigg was eliminated in 10th place out of 12 contestants. From UFC immortality to losing a reality television program...such is the luck of one Frank Trigg.