The UFC is pushing out Ultimate Fighter winner’s right and left these days and at Saturday’s Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale, Dana White will be handing out yet another trophy. The 17th season of the reality series has been one of the best ever and Uriah Hall and Kelvin Gastelum are the last two fighters standing.
The fight card for Saturday’s Ultimate fighter 17 has been fully revealed and Team Sonnen fighter Zak Cummings was surprisingly left off the card. Well before the fight card had even begun to fill up UFC President Dana White stated that all 14 fighters from this season would fight at the finale.
The Finale for the TUF 17 season that revived the series from the dead is this Saturday from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The UFC has put the majority of the TUF 17 on the finale’s fight card along with many other fighters to put together a great card.
The last episode on The Ultimate Fighter 17 has arrived and at this weekend Finale the UFC will crown another TUF winner. Before the finals take place, the four fighters remaining fighter must earn one more win in tonight’s semifinal round. Two fights on tap on tonight’s episode with two spots the finals on the line.
After last week’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter 17 where two fighters advanced into the semifinals, tonight’s episode will complete the quarterfinal round. Kelvin Gastelum from Team Sonnen and Dylan Andrews from Team Jones have advanced and will learn their opponents for the next round tonight.
With the quarterfinal matchups set at the conclusion of last week’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter 17, tonight two of those four bouts will take place. Two spots in the semifinals will be up for grabs as Collin Hart takes on Kelvin Gastelum and Dylan Andrews faces Luke Barnett.
With the last opening round bout on The Ultimate Fighter 17 now in the books we turn our attention to the wild card spot. Bubba McDaniel and Kevin Casey will finally step into Octagon as Team Jones looks to even things up before the quarterfinals begin.
Jimmy won a brutal fight with Clint on last week’s episode of TUF 17, showing how durable he was while working to get Clint’s back and locking in a rear naked coke. Even though Team Darkside took the victory there were only two guys left to fight, Dylan Andrews and myself.
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