Gabriel G. "Gabe" Ruediger (born August 29, 1977) is a former American mixed martial artist, who competed in the Lightweight division for the UFC, WEC and Tachi Palace Fights.
In episode 5, Team Pulver selected Corey Hill to fight Ruediger.
The episode showed Ruediger eating ice cream cake after learning of his upcoming fight, shortly before the weigh ins.
Ultimately, Penn and Maynard gave up and walked off as Ruediger literally begged for them to pick him back up.
He took direct criticism from his own coaches and teammates for "taking short cuts" and displaying a lack of dedication, due to his request for a colonic to lose weight (a procedure where they input plastic tubes up your rectum to flush fecal matter out of your system) and his overall poor work ethic.
Ruediger later stated that he saw The Ultimate Fighter show as a "marketing tool"[3] and that audience members should "take what you see on TV with a grain of salt."
These were refuted in an interview with Armando Garcia, the executive director of the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC).