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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.

On tonight’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter 17 was jam packed. Not only did the last preliminary round fight take place but the wildcard match up was also revealed. We also got the traditional coach’s challenge as Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen went head to head prior to their UFC 159 title fight.

With Josh Samman getting a win over Tor, it essentially gave Team Jones the last two TUF 17 match-up selections for the opening round. They decided that Clint Hester and Jimmy Quinlan would fight first, which left Dylan and myself for the last preliminary fight. After the fight, Team Jones sat in the locker room talking a little bit about Bubba having the wildcard for sure and that they felt it would be a “Jones Finale.”