Jana Pittman punches Alicia Molik right off the show
<p>A confronting exercise on SAS Australia has seen celebrity recruits paired up for the vicious one-on-one battles, leaving one contender seriously injured.</p>
<p>Brutal matches saw the stars fight each other as the rest of the group watched on until the ex-Special Forces soldiers told them they could stop.</p>
<p>It ended with one recruit in hospital, and another walking away from the show.</p>
<p><strong>Recruits must fight each other</strong></p>
<p>In the second task of Monday night’s episode, the recruits had to test their physical and mental resilience in hand-to-hand combat.</p>
<p>“You stand toe-to-toe at all times," said staff Ant Middleton. "This isn’t boxing. No f**king dancing around, no defending yourselves, the only form of defence is attack.</p>
<p>“The only way you’re going to counter the violence, is with extreme violence."</p>
<p>The first recruit up was former AFL player Heath Shaw. Asked to pick an opponent, he chose the biggest in the pack, ex-South Sydney Rabbitohs caption Sam Burgess, who eventually won the fight.</p>
<p>The group was then asked to volunteer to fight surfer Koby Abberton, and five guys put raised their hands.<span> </span><em>Home and Away</em><span> </span>actor Dan Ewing was chosen to take on the Bra Boy surfer.</p>
<p>Abberton came out the winner.</p>
<p><strong>Recruits uncomfortable watching girls fight</strong></p>
<p>In another alarming battle, the oldest recruit on the show, 55-year-old beach volleyball legend Kerri Pottharst, was paired with track athlete Jessica Peris, 28.</p>
<p>Jess clearly overwhelmed the Olympic gold medallist who kept turning her back.</p>
<p>Singer Bonnie Anderson teared up watching the fight, while Abberton was visibly upset, commenting, “Don’t hit too hard on her face.”</p>
<p>He even lunged forward during the fight, wanting to intervene, and whispering, “Stop.”</p>
<p>“My life has been around violence,” he admitted. “Violence towards women, that’s my mum’s life. Girls are strong people.</p>
<p>“I have a five-year-old, I don’t want him to grow up the way I grew up, I don’t want him to see that sort of violence”.</p>
<p><strong>Pete Murray injured</strong></p>
<p>Next up, former tennis player Mark Philippoussis went against 51-year-old Pete Murray.</p>
<p>They slugged it out as the directing staff chanted, “come on,” “keep fighting,” “punch straight.”</p>
<p>Suddenly Murray dropped to the ground. He had painfully dislocated his elbow.</p>
<p>The recruits looked uneasy as he held his arm in pain.</p>
<p>“What are you staring at, this is what its all about,” DS Jason ‘Foxy’ fox said. “Get your head in the game, if you don’t like watching it, f**k off.”</p>
<p>Murray asked the on-site doctor if he could pop it back into place, but was told he needed hospital and X-rays.</p>
<p>Given the seriousness of the injury, he was medically withdrawn from the course.</p>
<p>Middleton then addressed the rest of the recruits.</p>
<p>“I told you, you’re going to get cuts, bruisers, stitches, breaks, it’s what I said at the beginning, this is not a f**king game,” he says.</p>
<p>“If you don’t like it, give me your numbers, grab your kit and f**k off.”</p>
<p><strong>Alicia Molik withdraws</strong></p>
<p>The last fight of the night was dual Olympian Jana Pittman against tennis champion Alicia Molik.</p>
<p>During the fight, Pittman was more of the aggressor and Molik stepped back and turned away.</p>
<p>She then fully walked away and Middleton asked if she wanted to quit. She handed over her number, becoming the sixth to voluntarily withdraw from the course.</p>
<p>“I just got scared,” she admitted. “I thought I’d be a good fighter, I tried my best."</p>
