TUF 26 Finale

Wrongway1985

Main Card (BT Sport 2 3AM)
WFLYW:

Nico Montana -v- Roxanne Modaferri

BW: Sean O' Malley -v- Terrion Ware
WFLYW:

Barb Honchak

-v- Lauren Murphy
MW: Eric Spicely -v- Gerald Meerschaert
WFLYW: DeAnna Bennett -v- Fabian Melinda
BW: Brett Johns -v- Joe Soto

Prelims (UFC Fight Pass & BT Sport 2 1AM)
MW: Andrew Sanchez -v- Ryan Janes
WFLYW: Christina Marks -v- Montana De La Rosa
CATCH*: Karine Gevorgyan -v- Rachel Ostovich
WFLYW: Aerial Beck -v- Shana Dobson

*Originally at 125 - Karine missed weight, despite a second attempt only managed 130 gives up 30% of her fight purse.

Fight Pass Prelims (UFC Fight Pass 12:30AM)
WFLYW: Gillian Robertson -v- Emily Whitmire

-NOTE:-
For obvious reasons I've spoiler tagged fighters who were involved in the semi-finals. Once this card goes live it's okay to chat about the series/goings on around it but until then take the discussion to the shows thread - TUF 26: Alvarez vs Gaethje *Spoilers Within*

The last episode is getting a repeat airing on BT Sport 2 prior to the Prelims if anyone was interested in catching it then. Now that the full card is revealed I can't imagine it being one to grab those who haven't been up to speed on the show unless hopeful of an appetizer to UFC218.

Paully D

Worth tuning in just for Montana Stewart/De La Rosa. Straight in as hottest female fighter in the UFC for me. She's unbelievable. On a similar note, check out her last fight in the TUF house if you haven't seen it. She suffers one of the nastiest cuts I've seen in a long, long time from a vicious knee to the head but battles through to the end.

I'm actually looking forward to this card as I've followed the entire season of TUF so would have an interest in seeing how the girls do on the big stage, but this card must be hell on earth for anyone who hasn't watched this season. :pac:

It's an awful pity about

Sarj not making weight which really takes away from the Finale now, but it's hardly surprising either given the struggles she had in the house.

Wrongway1985

Paully D wrote: »

I'm actually looking forward to this card as I've followed the entire season of TUF so would have an interest in seeing how the girls do on the big stage, but this card must be hell on earth for anyone who hasn't watched this season. :pac[/SPOILER]

Main event aside last week, card is on par with it otherwise on paper in terms of star power at least .

Just loading up Fight Pass...

Wrongway1985

Well that was quick

Paully D

Nice armbar and a little bit of an upset there too.

Just realised there's six fights on the main card :eek: A catch-up over breakfast in the morning could be in order.

Wrongway1985

I know I'm at least gonna watch all the prelims, uncertain will go the full stretch :pac:

Paully D

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

I know I'm at least gonna watch all the prelims, uncertain will go the full stretch :pac:

I'll stay up to see Montana and then I'll bounce. :pac:

Long night ahead for UFC 218 tomorrow so need to try and not burn out :pac:

Wrongway1985

Decent first round there, they're not keen on defense these two

Wrongway1985

Yet another finish!! Imagine this doesn't bode well for Pick 'ems

Wrongway1985

This is mental!!

Kirby

Cardio is king.

Lmao I was thinking "Ryan Janes just looks like someone who would work in my office" low and behold he is a web developer in his day job

Wrongway1985

That was ridiculous give the man some bonus money

Ridiculous that these two are on a UFC card

Wrongway1985

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ridiculous that these two are on a UFC card

For 2 minutes

Tied for most armbars on a card

Wrongway1985

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

For 2 minutes

Tied for most armbars on a card

8 and 8 record. How many losses does she have due to getting tapped? Surely she was just someone to make the TUF reject look good!

Wrongway1985

[Deleted User] wrote: »

8 and 8 record. How many losses does she have due to getting tapped? Surely she was just someone to make the TUF reject look good!

Just checked the sherdoggydogdog prior to this 7 of those 8 losses by sub

Wrongway1985

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Just checked the sherdoggydogdog prior to this 7 of those 8 losses by sub

:pac:

Wrongway1985

Hon the Pikey

Now that is a nice fecking submission

No Arm bar :O

Wrongway1985

The first decision of the night and it's a draw ha. Those judges have been dossin all night but made the right call IMO...well 2 of them did

Both these women are hot

O'Malley is rough around the edges but looks like he has great potential

Amazingfun

O'Malley is going to be some fun :-)

Kirby

main event is an absolute slopfest.

Amazingfun

Agreed. Boo!

None of these people should even be near the UFC, never mind a fecking belt! fuark off

Are you trying to tell me this chick and DC are both champions? equals?

Lauren Murphy and Barb fight wasn't so bad though funnily enough

Amazingfun

haha, I just said to myself Murphy could have beaten either one most likely, lol

Still, congrats to Nicco, her fights in the house were great, and she deserved it more than Rox imo.

Sarj must be banging her head against the Wall.

***Nicco just said on FOX1 that she broke her foot a few days ago

Mellor

The standard of the series was weak compared to fighters availible in the division. I think this bekt will change hands a lot.

Paully D

Anyone who watched the season will know that Eddie HATED Lauren, and for good reason IMO.

She tried to put the blame on him for losing her fight and then left his team of her own accord to move across to Justin's team. When that happened, Eddie went into a bit of a rage and accidentally called her Barb which made her flip out even more.

https://twitter.com/ealvarezfight/status/936821367583924225

dulux99

I didn't watch tuf, I tried the first one or two episodes but it's just groundhog day for me at this point, the show is so mind numbingly repetitive. But I watched the finale this morning. It that title fight was meant to show two of the top dogs in the division, then christ, I dont have high hopes for it going forward. Awful stuff

cletus

Once current 115 / 135 lb fighters move up/down, you'll see the quality of fights improve dramatically. Few of the fighters from last night will stay in the top ten.

Really, the belt last night was a combination of needing a starting point for the division, and a hook for this season of TUF

Mellor

cletus wrote: »

Once current 115 / 135 lb fighters move up/down, you'll see the quality of fights improve dramatically. Few of the fighters from last night will stay in the top ten.

Really, the belt last night was a combination of needing a starting point for the division, and a hook for this season of TUF

TUF is for people who are willing to be tied into a TUF contract.
Fighters who know they are better. Usually take their chances. Joanna turned down TUF I believe. The UFC have sign a few fighters to this division recently, I'd assume they also wanted to bypass TUF so hopefully the standard goes up.

Paully D

Mellor wrote: »

TUF is for people who are willing to be tied into a TUF contract.
Fighters who know they are better. Usually take their chances. Joanna turned down TUF I believe. The UFC have sign a few fighters to this division recently, I'd assume they also wanted to bypass TUF so hopefully the standard goes up.

And I know for a fact that there's mid-level Bellator fighters as an example who are on far better money than those coming into the UFC off TUF tied to 4 fight deals on relative pennies.

dulux99

Those points are all valid and I take the example that the 115lb division was ruled for so long by someone who didn't go through tuf, but that doesn't change the simple fact that the UFC title fight last night was just horrendous.

Taking contacts and money out of it, because the majority of fans have no knowledge or interest in that stuff, the skill level in title fight last night was very poor. That girl must be the least skilled UFC champion of the last 15 years.

Wrongway1985

Amazingfun wrote: »

haha, I just said to myself Murphy could have beaten either one most likely, lol

But in actual fact Lauren lost to Nicco on the show haha

Just caught up hit the hay after the fight that ended a draw, main event was interesting but ya not on the level of a title fight clearly.

I can understand people calling out the limited skills of the cast but that's nothing new with TUF. Put it this way I thought they were the female equivalent of the one McGregor coached at least Roxy didn't get to pull a Ryan Hall here.

Is Ryan Hall on a level pegging with DC...Absolutely not! The winner of this season was likely just bait for a Shevchenko or another.

What I'm really puzzled over here is how on earth the main event got FOTN and Ryan Janes didn't go home with any bonus at all!!

Wrongway1985

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

But in actual fact Lauren lost to Nicco on the show haha

Just caught up hit the hay after the fight that ended a draw, main event was interesting but ya not on the level of a title fight clearly.

I can understand people calling out the limited skills of the cast but that's nothing new with TUF. Put it this way I thought they were the female equivalent of the one McGregor coached at least Roxy didn't get to pull a Ryan Hall here.

Is Ryan Hall on a level pegging with DC...Absolutely not! The winner of this season was likely just bait for a Shevchenko or another.

What I'm really puzzled over here is how on earth the main event got FOTN and Ryan Janes didn't go home with any bonus at all!!

main event got FOTN?!?? :pac::pac::pac: that was a boring ole fight

Wrongway1985

[Deleted User] wrote: »

main event got FOTN?!?? :pac::pac::pac: that was a boring ole fight

Yup baffling, Pikey and Meershaart got the nod for the performance bonuses.

If that was the choice for FOTN they should've lashed out 4 POTN but seriously Janes/Sanchez was feckin' mental.

Autecher

Nicco & Roxanne made $180,000 each from the fight the other night. 100,000 for the fight, 50'000 FOTN bonus & 30,000 Reebok bonus. I'd say they are both delighted with that, Nunes made 250,000 when she beat Rousey!