TUF 14 Finale

[No More Sorrow]

Haven't watched this season, or the last half dozen, just can't get into it anymore although I had orginally planned on watching it since Miller and Bisping would have been entertaining coaches.

As for their fight I have to go with Bisping here. He can normally beat most people around his range but it is only against top opponents that he struggles. I think that he will win here but then have to defeat a top name before getting a title shot.

Agreed about Bisping.

 

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The tournament finals are set for The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale on Saturday.

Following Wednesday's regular-season episode on Spike TV, the first-ever bantamweight and featherweights finalists were determined.

In featherweight action, Team Miller's Dennis Bermudez (7-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) takes on Team Bisping's Diego Brandao (13-7 MMA, 0-0 UFC), and in bantamweight action, Team Miller's John Dodson (11-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) meets Team Bisping's T.J. Dillashaw (4-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC).

The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale takes place at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The night's main card, including the tourney finals and a headliner between coaches Michael Bisping and Jason "Mayhem" Miller, airs on Spike TV. The prelims stream on Facebook.

All tourney finalists were No. 1 draft picks except for Dillashaw, who was a No. 2 pick. Saturday's winners earn a guaranteed UFC contract, though many cast members from this season are expected to be folded into the UFC's newly adopted 135- and 145-pound divisions.

Bermudez punched his ticket to the finale with TKO wins over Jimmie Rivera and Stephen Bass and a submission victory over Akira Corassani in the "TUF 14" 16-man featherweight tournament. In official/pro competition, he looks to snap a two-fight losing skid that came to UFC vet Drew Fickett and top prospect Jordan Rinaldi in regional competition.

He takes on Brandao, who blew threw the "TUF" competition with first-round knockouts of Jesse Newell, Steven Siler and Bryan Caraway. In pro fights, he carries a three-fight win streak, and eight of the 13 fighter's wins have come via knockout.

Dodson, meanwhile, made the finals with a TKO of Brandon Merkt, a decision victory over John Albert, and a knockout of Johnny Bedford. Long considered one of New Mexico's top prospects, he returns to pro competition with four victories in his past five fights.

He now meets Dillashaw, who knocked out Matt Jaggers, submitted Roland Delorme and earned a decision victory over Dustin Prague in the tournament. After turning pro in early 2010, he racked up four victories in four pro fights before joining "TUF 14."

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With the tournament finales set without them, six bantamweight cast members from "The Ultimate Fighter 14" will get a second chance to secure a home in the UFC.

They're part of a string of matchups that has been added to Saturday's card for The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale.

The 135-pound matchups include Louis Gaudinot (5-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. Johnny Bedford (17-9-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), Dustin Pague (10-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. John Albert (6-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), and Roland Delorme (6-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. Josh Ferguson (8-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC).

The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale takes place at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The night's main card, including the tourney finals and a headliner between coaches Michael Bisping and Jason "Mayhem" Miller, airs on Spike TV.

Gaudinot vs. Bedford also is part of the main card. The prelims, meanwhile, stream on Facebook.

All three of the bantamweight preliminary-card fights pit Team Bisping fighters against Team Miller fighters.

Gaudinot (Team Bisping's No. 1 pick) knocked out Paul McVeigh in the tournament's opening round before a submission loss to Dustin Pague in the quarterfinals. The Ring of Combat veteran puts a four-fight win streak in pro competition on the line when he takes on Bedford (Team Miller's No. 2 pick), who made the tournament's semifinals after a submission win over Carson Beebe and a decision victory over Ferguson. But Bedford, a onetime Bellator fighter who's 6-1 over his past seven pro fights, was knocked out by John Dodson in the semis.

Pague (Team Miller's No. 3 pick), meanwhile, advanced to the semifinals with a majority-decision win over Tateki Matsuda and a submission victory over Pague before a decision loss to T.J. Dillashaw. He looks for his sixth straight victory when he meets Albert (Team Bisping's No. 3 pick), who subbed Orville Smith before a quarterfinal decision loss to John Dodson. Prior to "TUF 14," Albert (better known as "Prince") opened his career with six straight victories before his first pro loss in 2010.

Delorme (Team Miller's No. 4 pick), who subbed B.J. Ferguson before a submission loss to Dillashaw in the quarterfinals, opened his pro career with a 6-0 record and six stoppage wins before a split-decision defeat to Eric Wilson in his native Canada. He takes on B.J.'s bother in Josh Ferguson (Team Bisping's No. 4 pick), who knocked out Casey Dyer before a unanimous-decision loss to Beford in the quarterfinals. The Kentuckian looks to snap out of a 1-2 skid in pro competition after a 7-1 start that followed his 2007 debut.

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"Make sure you watch the fight, and 'Mayhem' Miller, when I'm done with him, he's going to be just another washed-up TV star walking around Hollywood looking like a crackhead begging for a dollar," Bisping said lmao

 

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Michael Bisping (186.25)* vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller (185.5)
Dennis Bermudez (146) vs. Diego Brandao (145)
John Dodson (134) vs. T.J. Dillashaw (135.5)
Yves Edwards (155) vs. Tony Ferguson (155.5)
Johnny Bedford (136) vs. Louis Gaudinot (136)

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Marcus Brimage (143) vs. Stephan Bass (145)
John Albert (136) vs. Dustin Pague (136)
Roland Delorme (136) vs. Josh Ferguson (134)
Josh Clopton (144) vs. Steven Siler (146)
Bryan Caraway (145) vs. Dustin Neace (145.5)

* Will be given additional time to lose the .25 of a pound.

Crazy as hell that Bisping missed weight by such a little amount.

 

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Anybody else going to be watching this tonight?

 

[Crippler]

yep

 

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Awesome. Should be some pretty good fights on here, looking forward to seeing Bisping kick the shit out of Miller.

 

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He just got owned in that round

 

[Crippler]

dude with the green hair is getting R@PED

 

[Crippler]

Green hair dude did not do shit the whole fight

 

[Crippler]

'BONES FUCKIN JONES'

 

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He's too small, the other guy Bedofrd he's a giant for that weight class.

 

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Haha the Jones fight is next weekend. That's going to be awesome.

 

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Awesome fight so far