We've heard the stories that say six weeks in the TUF house will drive even the most stoic men a little crazy. You know, screwy, ape, screw loose, bats in the belfry, unhinged, moonstruck,  bonkers, cracked, unzipped, daft, mad as a hatter, delirious, deranged, kooky, flipped out, fruity, insane, unbalanced, looney, mad, cuckoo, maniacal, nuts, mental, nutty, of unsound mind, batty, out to lunch, psycho, screwball, freaked out, silly, demented, unglued, wacky, bonkers, if he wasn't in the desert he might have froze to death chasing after his movie son in a garden maze. Mike Ricci felt his madness grow with each passing day inside the Las Vegas home. If you can call it that. The latest TUF house was anything but a home. On Ariel Helwani's MMA Hour, Mike Ricci discussed the horribleness that was his six weeks away from Canada and Tristar. At least we got this sweet reaction .gif out of his ordeal.

"It was an absolute nightmare, I wanted to sue for psychological damage, I wasn't the same person," "I actually thought I had a case, ‘I'm not the same person, I can do this and win.' But, I felt like don't get me wrong, I knew what I was getting into I knew how I was going to react. Even some of the producers in the house toward the end were like, ‘Geez, you're the most institutionalized fighter we've ever seen, we've done 11 seasons and we've never seen anyone like you, you're like a robot now.'

"I was taken away from my family and from my friends and from life, you literally, you vanish, you're gone, there's no sign of you whatsoever," "Its almost like to everyone in the outside world you're dead and you're gone. There's no sign of you whatsoever. And, things like for instance I didn't know what was happening with my people on the outside, it was upsetting, people had gotten new jobs or changed their hairstyle or experienced different things I missed out on, it just upset me. It still upsets me to this day."

"I watch it and it brings back a lot of emotions for me," "It's hard to watch, when I watch it I don't even realize it, five minutes into the show I'm frowning and my eyebrows get lower and I have this look on my face and I'm getting right back where I was just by watching. But, and also with my situation it was even harder, I was the smallest guy in the house, lightweight, looking the way I look and being quiet it just kind of made me a target for the jokes in the house and being picked on and whatnot. It made my situation a lot harder."

I actually did go crazy in 1997 when like, three of my friends changed their hairstyles to that George Clooney haircut over the course of a single weekend. It was a tough time for my friends and family but mostly me.

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+5 # Will-Kill 2012-12-11 19:59

He is one of the few guys in TUF history who did not show signs of traumatic abuse while intoxicated.

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+24 # TDM 2012-12-11 20:00

You ruined Rory McDonald, you SOB.

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+6 # Adi 2012-12-12 13:35

Rory was probably a virgin before he met Ricci...

heh no pun intended.

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+11 # Will-Kill 2012-12-11 20:26

He made McDonald awesome...hes bound to walk out to a poppy 80's song and explain to Joe Rogan how popular & amazing he thinks the song is American Psycho style.

Worse comes to worse, a sex tape will be released where he torture and mutilates chicks in a threesome and kill one of em.

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+7 # Hulk 2012-12-11 20:44

I'm so sick of hearing the hype behind this kid who dosnt finish fights his best fight was when pat curran put his ass to sleep!! Pat should be in the big show not this rory McDonald cock rider

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+17 # cats are nice 2012-12-11 21:27

To paraphrase - Whaaaaaaaaaahhh hhhhhhhhhhh the big kids picked on me and my friends got haircuts without consulting me.

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+11 # Asshole 2012-12-11 22:04

Of course Ricci would freak out. He wasn't sure if Rory could put on his new silk Calvin Klein underwear properly without him. For fucking sakes Rory could of mistaken the silk and wear it out as a hanky.

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-1 # jwp 2012-12-12 03:24

Did someone miss their Mum? I don't suggest joining the army then.

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-1 # MEOW2 2012-12-12 04:58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yg3dLEDWqs

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+7 # Thiskidsabitch 2012-12-12 05:19

Boo fuckin hoo. This guy wanted to sue because he was missing out on his friends new haircuts??? Jesus.

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+5 # justlikejames 2012-12-12 12:43

He knows that he could have left the show at any point, right? He wasn't kidnapped.

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+5 # Eager 2012-12-12 13:28

He was very clearly the only guy that went into that house with his shit together, the rest of the guys started out as lunatics and dragged him down with them.

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0 # Seanald 2012-12-12 14:41

come on guys take it easy on the fellow. Remember how hard it was for all of us when we went through puberty too? It probably was psychologically damaging for him when semen first came out of him while sleeping in the TUF house. He woke up and asked Julian what the sticky mess in his shorts was, and Julian replied, "You finally banged bro, you finally banged..."
I would have been confused and scared too.
It didn't help matters anymore when Roy Nelson thought he was full of a creamy nougat filling after his first ejaculation and tried eating him.
Hopefully a UFC contract and money will be enough to erase this horrible damage of getting the amazing opportunity others would kill for.

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+3 # Danger Waffles 2012-12-12 19:45

go to bed, bro.

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