All 22 fighters who participated in The Ultimate Fighter season 16 Finale returned negative results from drug tests taken during the Dec. 15 event. The results were announced by Nevada state athletic commission executive director Keith Kizer, who distributed them to MMA Fighting and other media outlets via email. Fighters are tested for drugs of [...]
Running shows on successive nights ended up as a mixed bag when it came to the UFC’s weekend ratings. The Friday night show, headlined by the finals of “The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes,” a series that was not broadcast in the U.S., did 972,000 viewers. That number was the lowest of the eight live main [...]
The sixteenth season of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ has it’s winner: Team Roy Nelson’s Colton Smith, who used dominant wrestling and top positional control to take a unanimous decision win over Team Carwin’s Mike Ricci. Smith defeated Ricci by judges scores of 30-27, 30-27, 30-26 at The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale in Las Vegas, Nev. From [...]
LAS VEGAS — A fight-day illness has forced lightweight Jamie Varner to withdraw from his much-anticipated “Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale” bout with Melvin Guillard on Saturday night at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. According to MMAFighting’s Ariel Helwani, UFC president Dana White said the bout has been rescheduled for UFC 155 [...]
An act of volunteerism could become the most fruitful move of Matt Mitrione’s career. He was the first one to raise his hand and ask to fill in for Shane Carwin when a replacement was needed, and his willingness to do so earned him a headlining fight against Roy Nelson at Saturday’s Ultimate Fighter 16 [...]
The Ultimate Fighter (TUF): Smashes has come to a conclusion, which is capped off by Friday’s finale in their welterweight and lightweight finals. Alongside them are the coaches battle as well as a middleweight bout featuring one Brazilian and another Cuban-born Australian living in America. It’s not a terrible main card, but it’s nothing even [...]
Court McGee is moving to welterweight. The winner of the eleventh season of “The Ultimater Fighter” has agreed to fight Josh Neer in 170-pound action at UFC 157 on Feb. 23, MMA Fighting has learned from closes sources to the event. The UFC has yet to officially announce the bout. McGee (13-3), who has lost [...]
If there’s been a near-universal theme among the hundreds of fighters who have appeared on The Ultimate Fighter over the course of 16 seasons, it is this: Living in the TUF house is not something they’d want to experience again. Sure, most of them came out the other end of their TUF experience better fighters [...]
Roy Nelson’s one-man campaign to get his opponents to agree to pre-fight drug testing has been a bit of an uphill struggle. The UFC heavyweight contender tried and failed to get his original opponent for The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale main event, Shane Carwin, to agree to Voluntary Anti-Doping Association testing. When Carwin had to [...]
Not since November 2011, when we were all trying to figure out what the FOX deal really meant for the sport of mixed martial arts, has there been a nationally televised event as anticipated at UFC on FOX 5. On paper there was little chance the star-studded main card wouldn’t deliver, and for once, things [...]