​Michael Bisping did everything in his power to keep this week’s The Ultimate Fighter 34 fight from being canceled; unfortunately for his team, his efforts ended up working in Daniel Cormier’s favor.Team Cormier took the lead at 3-2 on the season with Brazilian strawweight Tina Black winning a grudge match against countrywoman Natalia Alves. The former Invicta FC champion out-struck Alves and foiled her attempts to take her to the ground, then capped off her performance with a knockout flurry late in Round 2.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementWatch the finish below.There was plenty of drama leading up to the fight, including Bisping tricking Black’s coach outside of the show, UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber, into believing that Black was on his team so that he would reveal the Team Cormier fighter’s weaknesses.With knowledge of Black’s supposed limitations in hand, Alves was to utilize her wrestling to dominate the fight, but it didn’t go according to plan and her teammate, TUF 34 guest blogger Xavier Franklin explained what went wrong.Xavier: Tina is a backfoot fighter. She’s a sniper. She can fight moving any way. Backwards forwards, it’s very hard to get somebody, a fighter that can fight backwards. So it’s also very hard to wrestle somebody that’s moving backwards. You have to have somebody going forward in order to catch them in the takedowns. I feel like our game plan was to wrestle, but you can wrestle if you can get to the wrestling. If you can’t get to the target, you’re not going to be able to employ your strength.Natalia, she wasn’t getting up on Tina. She wasn’t cutting her off, but she was following her. You gotta cut her off. One thing about people that move a lot is they have to maintain that the whole time. So if you force them to move even more, just a little bit with a little bit more pressure, they’re gonna get tired a little bit. And then when Tina was throwing, Natalia should have been throwing with her, like she was already getting hit and countered, so you might as well just throw at the same time she’s throwing. … Tina was going straight and Natalia was trying to go around, so that’s how she got hurt. She went to open up and throw something and she got caught with basically a straight left jab when I think she should have just went straight, like an overhand or something I think would have helped more. But yeah, that weight cut was brutal.Alves’ difficult weight cut shaped the narrative of Episode 5, as she was attempting to cut all the way up to the last second, even receiving an extra hour to make the weight. Coach Bisping was with her every step of the way, even if he would rather have been anywhere else.Xavier: Bisping was literally in the sauna with her. She tried to get out. He trapped her in there. She was screaming and all this shit. He said, ‘We’re not leaving until you get this weight.’ He was being crazy. I’ll tell you, Bisping is super hands on. He’s a winner. I