Fantasy TUF 8: The Live Finale Card

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has released its full fight card for the Dec. 13 live finale of "The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir," and a total of 16 cast members have been slotted for the event. The event takes place at The Palms Las Vegas, and the main card airs live on Spike TV at 9pm EST.The finals for the show's lightweight and light-heavyweight tournaments were determined during Wednesday's back-to-back new episodes of the reality show. The two lightweight finalists are Phillipe Nover and Efrain Escudero. The light-heavyweight finalists include Vinny Magalhaes and Ryan Bader. Previously announced non-"TUF" bouts of Jason MacDonald vs. Wilson Gouveia and Kevin Burns vs. Anthony Johnson are also set for the main card. The final televised bout, perhaps non-surprisingly, goes to controversial cast member and semifinalist Junie Browning, who's been pitted against Dave Kaplan, in the live finale.

The full card includes:
Efrain Escudero vs. Phillipe Nover ("TUF8" lightweight finals)
Ryan Bader vs. Vinicius Magalhaes ("TUF8" light heavyweights finals)
Wilson Gouveia vs. Jason MacDonald
Kevin Burns vs. Anthony Johnson
Junie Browning vs. Dave Kaplan
Shane Primm vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
Jules Bruchez vs. Eliot Marshall
Kyle Kingsbury vs. Tom Lawlor
Shane Nelson vs. George Roop
John Polakowski vs. Rolando Delgado

I have attached a spreadsheet that shows who has each fighter in the match up. Remember all fighters and coaches still earn points for the Finale (even the unaired fights), the the two tournament finals earn double points for the fighters and coaches.

Next week I will send out the fight odds for picks, and we will use those picks as a tie-breaker in case there is a tie.

I hope to see you next week, and good luck to everyone.
Jon

Fantasy TUF 8: Episodes 11 and 12

Last nights episodes saw the Semi-Finals play out. Here are the episode recaps:

http://mmajunkie.com/news/13390/episode-no-11-recap-the-ultimate-fighter-team-nogueira-vs-team-mir.mma

http://mmajunkie.com/news/13392/episode-no-12-recap-the-ultimate-fighter-team-nogueira-vs-team-mir.mma

Here are the updated scores:

Roxanne:36
CJ:26
Steve:24
Jen:23
Brandon:16
Maria:13
Undrafted:13
Jon:6

I'll send out the Finale Fight Card later.
Jon

Fantasy TUF 8: Episode 10

Last night (Undrafted) George Roop defeated (Team Steve's) John Polakowski to advance to the Semi-Finals.

Here is the recap:
http://mmajunkie.com/news/13290/episode-no-10-recap-the-ultimate-fighter-team-nogueira-vs-team-mir.mma

Here are the updated scores:

Roxanne:25
Brandon:15
Jen:13
CJ:13
Steve:12
Maria:12
Undrafted:10
Jon:5

And here are the Semi-Final match ups:

Lightweight:
(Team Steve) Efrain Escudero vs (Team Maria) Junie Browning
(Team CJ) Phillipe Nover vs (Undrafted) George Roop

Light Heavyweight:
(Team Roxanne) Vinny Magalhaes vs (Team Roxanne) Krzysztof Soszynski
(Team Jen) Ryan Bader vs (Team Brandon) Eliot Marshall

The Semi-Final Episode will air on Spike Wednesday December 3rd at 10pm, and the Finals will air on Spike Saturday December 13th at 9pm.

Rule Clarification: The Vinny vs Krzysztof fight will be two Team Mir fighters even if they let Nogueira corner one of the fighters.

I think that's everything.
Jon.

Fantasy TUF 8: Episode 9

Last night (Team Roxanne's) Krzysztof Soszynski defeated (Team Jen's) Kyle Kingsbury in the 1st round to advance to the Semi-Finals. Grats to Roxanne for getting two fighters in the Semi-Finals.
Next week (Team Steve's) John Polakowski fights George Roop for the final spot in the Lightweight Semi-Finals.

Here is the recap: http://mmajunkie.com/news/13226/episode-no-9-recap-the-ultimate-fighter-team-nogueira-vs-team-mir.mma

Here are the updated rankings:

Roxanne:24
Brandon:14
Jen:13
CJ:13
Steve:12
Maria:11
Jon:4
Undrafted:3

Fantasy TUF 8: Episode 8

These pranks have gone too far. Can't they go back to the panty raids? Last night was just gross.

Anyway, Grats to CJ as his fighter Phillipe defeated my fighter Dave. And Grats to me for being the first to have both fighters eliminated. That is going to make it really hard for me to win this.

Here is the episode recap:

http://mmajunkie.com/news/13171/episode-no-8-recap-the-ultimate-fighter-team-nogueira-vs-team-mir.mma

And here are the updated scores:

Brandon:13
Roxanne:13
Jen:13
CJ:13
Steve:12
Maria:10
Jon:3
Undrafted:3

Next week will feature (Team Jen's) Kyle Kingsbury vs (Team Roxanne's) Krzysztof Soszynski, and the following week will feature (Team Steve's) John Polakowski vs (Undrafted) George Roop in the last Quarterfinal matchup.