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 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.
Last week’s TUF 17 episode saw Josh Samman get the second win for Team Jones by knocking out Tor Troeng in the first round. With Team Sonnen is still up 3-2 heading into the final two fights before the wildcard, Jon Jones selected Clint Hester vs. Jimmy Quinlan to try to even the score.
After Kelvin won a huge upset over the veteran Bubba in the previous week’s TUF 17 episode, Team Darkside matched up Tor “The Hammer” Troeng versus Josh Samman. This episode starts off with Bubba being very hard on himself but giving tons of credit to Kelvin for never stopping and having no quit in him.
Coming off the loss to Kelvin Gastelum last week, Team Jones is already talking about Bubba McDaniel being one of the TUF 17 wildcard fighters to get a second chance. Team Sonnen has won three of the four bouts so far and picked Tor Troeng to take on Josh Samman in hopes of keeping control.
This week’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter 17 begins with the usual recap, showing one more time that nasty knockout by Uriah Hall. After being taken to the hospital and checked out, Adam Cella returns to the house with a clean bill of health and immediately seeks out Hall to congratulate him.
Week three starts off with recapping Luke’s sick flying knee to keep control of the TUF 17 fight selections for Team Sonnen. Bubba calls out “King” but Team Sonnen matches up Uriah Hall vs. Adam Cella. Team Jones seems pretty excited about the match up. They said that this is the exact matchup they wanted, which we all laughed about since Bubba obviously wanted Kevin Casey next.
Tonight’s fight was hyped up during the final seconds of last week’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter 17 as having a crazy finish. The Sonnen’s Uriah Hall was taking on Adam Cella of Team Jones and if the previews are correct, these two strikers produce a hell of an ending.
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