TUF 10 Finale Lineup Set: Roy Nelson vs. Brendan Schaub in Finals
The finalized roster for The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale is finally available on the heels of last evening’s episodes that featured both semi-final match-ups.
The TUF 10 Finale is set for December 5 from The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, with the main portion of the card airing live on Spike TV.
Roy “Big Country” Nelson will be facing off with Brendan Schaub in the tournament final, along with other notable match-ups including Kimbo Slice vs. Houston Alexander, Matt Hamill vs. Jon Jones, Frankie Edgar vs. Matt Veach and Marcus Jones vs. Matt Mitrione.
A full list of the finalized fight card for the TUF 10 Finale is listed below:
Roy Nelson vs. Brendan Schaub
Matt Hamill vs. Jon Jones
Houston Alexander vs. Kimbo Slice
Frankie Edgar vs. Matt Veach
Marcus Jones vs. Matt Mitrione
James McSweeney vs. Darrill Schoonover
Jon Madsen vs. Justin Wren
Brian Stann vs. Rodney Wallace
Dennis Hallman vs. John Howard
Mark Bocek vs. Joe Brammer
Cory Brady is the managing editor of FiveOuncesOfPain.com, along with being a regular feature writer with Ultimate MMA Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/corybrady
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I dont see how Mcsweeny wasnt kicked off the show for throwing punches and trying to kick that guy, I understand he didnt start the fight but I thought anything resembling a fight got them kicked off the show.
fan..its easy to see why. nobody cared about zak, mcsweeney didnt hurt him and defended himself. plus mcsweeney is rashads boy.
I thought the 4 fights from last night were all great! A few even had me up out of my seat yelling and cheering.
Especially Shaub vs. Jones. That was a crazy fight! I thought once Marcus had Brendan down it was over. I mean he had Shaub fully mounted! It was amazing that Brendan escaped it…but even more amazing was the devastating KO that soon followed.
I was blown away by Shaub in that fight…really impressive stuff.
And maybe it was just me, but I absolutely enjoyed Nelson putting McSweeny in the same crucifix he did Kimbo and proceed to beat the snot out of his face…actually I should have said blood.
But I loved it! Mcsweeny was probably my least favorite fighter on the show. He was always up in the middle of everyone’s business…and always had something to say. Ugh, I’m glad he is out.
Funny though how Dana is all of a sudden impressed with Roy’s performance (when it looked just like the Kimbo fight!)…maybe it’s the promoter in him coming out. Dana probably realizes that Roy has a better that good chance to win this thing and it won’t help future promotion of the TUF winner if he sits there and bad-mouths him non-stop.
That’s just my guess anyway. But I will most definitely be rooting for Roy in the finals…just to spite Dana.
I mean Dana hasn’t given Roy an ounce of respect until last night (and I believe that was simply for financial reasons)…and he even claimed Roy was too fat and didn’t have the body of a fighter when he was employed with EliteXC.
So for that, I want Roy to take this whole thing…thus making Dana eat every negative word he has ever said about the talented heavyweight.
Go Roy!
I think most of us saw Roy Nelson in the finale when they first announced the lineup months ago.
I was kinda pulling for Big Baby though, he just seemed like the most genuine guy even though I don’t think he’ll have that long of an MMA career with his knee injuries. I’m kinda bummed that he lost and even though I haven’t watched the episode yet (stupid finals; yay TiVO!!!) I’m still looking forward to see how he was taken down.
Overall I think this finale lineup is one of the most exciting ones the UFC has put together yet. Edgar, Jones, and Bocek are some of my favorites to watch and, even though I’ve been critical of the Kimbo/Alexander fight, I’m kinda looking forward to that one too.
I agree fan, the guy’s I watched it with last night were shocked that he wasn’t kicked out either. Good fights though, I hope Big Country gets the win.
I was surprised that such a talented and experienced fighter was allowed in the TUF house, especially since it seems to be a show that gives exposure and experience to up and comers (other than the comeback season). But I have to agree with Dana on his first performance, but not on the rest. And even though his first performance was boring by any standards, he did the smart thing and won a fight taking no damage thus ensuring that he’d be able to fight in at least one more.
And as far as his conditioning goes, I would love to see how much better he would be if he lost some weight. He’s got plenty of extra, just saying.
I like Marcus ‘The Darkness’ Jones as much as anyone…he really does appear to be a genuine and great guy.
But his emotions are out of control!
The way he was getting all upset about Scott Junk’s health was beyond ridiculous. I mean I know he has been best friends with the guy for a whopping 5 weeks…but man, injuries happen. And it happened unintentionally during a fight.
Nobody is at fault.
But Marcus went completely off deep end about it…and boy, was it entertaining!
I was laughing so hard at Marcus when they finally got him in the back room and asked him what was wrong. And then in that Green Mile voice he says, “Scott Junk can’t fight no mo.” and everyone is like “Huh, what?”
“They said Scott Junk can’t fight no mo.”
LOL! I laughed so hard at that…I mean it’s hard to script stuff that funny!
That was just BS coming out of Dana white mouth last night, all season we hear how Roy isnt impressive finishing off two decent or even good fighters, and how Mcsweesey should put him away easily. BS. Roy handled a great striker perfectly, plus I really think Roy could have gotten a ko had he gone for it. Marcus Jones is very impressive and when his boxing catches up with his grappling other fighters will have to look out for sure.
Brendan looked great last night taking all Jones had to give and staying calm and roaring back with a TKO, cant wait for Schwad vs Nelson.
is it just me or is Evans trying way to hard to get under rampages skin???? He starts on rampage and when he dosent get the response he wants out of him then he starts on tiki. then he calls rampage a bitch and then backs off when rampage dares him to do something.
its just coming off as annoying to me. those two need to get in the cage damnit and settle this thing once and for all. Oh and i think rampage will skull fuck him
as for Roy getting to the final, that was a no brainer. it was who he will be facing for me.
when DARKNESS took down Brandon I thought it was over for sure. Good job on Brandon on the win. Markus is one scary dude but one lovable guy
I am going to limb here and pick Roy to win on Saturday. Ok ok its not that hard of a pick lol considering who is the more experience.
what a great two hours last night was.
Brandon just became the head instructor on how to get out from under a mount and side control at his home gym with that win last night, beautiful. It is interesting that Roy has used the crucifix twice for wins and Brandon escaped from Jones’ crucifix with ease. When Jones grabbed his arm I was thinking it is over, and then bam, he pulls is arm out and got to half guard. Then when Marcus got the mount, I thought it was done, and dude lifts Marcus’ big, heavy ass right off of him, gets up and gets blasted with a knee that didn’t hardly faze him, and then destroyed him. It was like friggin’ Hulk Hogan getting his ass beat the whole time, getting pumped up and impervious to pain, and winning with a few punches. I was waiting for a leg drop!!!! Great showing from Brandon that sets up a suprisingly interesting(as I didn’t think this season would have)finale. GOOOO FAT GUY!!!
Serious question: do either Nelson or Schaub stand a chance against any of the UFC’s heavyweight elite?
That was a great two hours of TV last night.
I was surprized that Kimbo didn’t take the Cordisone shot and fight, but after looking up some info on it I think it was as smart a move as he could make at the time. Hearing what the doctor said to him last time though, I’ve completely given up hope that he might ever have a good few years to fight.
Also, wasn’t it funny how the second Kimbo turned down the fight Matt was all ready to go. I have a sneaking suspicion that Matt was either paid or offered some compensation to pull out so that Kimbo might fight again.
I was glad to find out this morning that Marcus will indeed be fighting again. I hope he’s been working on his boxing a lot. It was sad to see his big ass get slayed like that. Once he took a couple punches he kinda froze up in fear I think.
I pick Roy to win the contest. He hasn’t impressed me much with what he’s done in the TUF house so far, but in some of his IFL fights I think he showed that he is a tough competitor. He is fairly well rounded and he has decent cardio.
Nope!
Not yet at least. I don’t think Roy has much of a chance against any of the bigger, faster breed of HW that’s currently making it’s way into the UFC a la Lesnar, Carwin, etc… He’s got a good ground game, but so does Mir and I would pick Mir over Roy 4 out of 5 times.
Schaub has a puncher’s chance I guess, but not much more. He’s strong, and managed to get up out of a crappy position on the ground, but not against an elite wrestler
Maybe with some time and more coaching they will be on that level one day, but I just don’t think so.
Roy vs Mir would be a great match up, although they alredy met at a grappling competition where Roy got the win, I am sure Mir would like a shot at him in the cage.
I’ll probably get a lot of thumbs down for this but..
THANK GOD FOR ROY NELSON!
McSweeney was starting to drive me crazy..
He’s not good at all, yet he has the confidence of a world champion!
He has sloppy, weak striking, yet he constantly talks bout knocking people out..
Then, he pushes Mitrione at the weigh-ins, trying to look all big and bad (I was sure he was going to lose that fight).
Oh, and then he has the AUDACITY to say Roy hasn’t fought a striker like him…
PLEASE!!! What kind of striker are you McSweeney? You have 3 KO’s against complete nobodies and have lost to EVERY significant opponent you’ve faced..
Roy Nelson, on the other hand, has had hardfought battles with the likes of Ben Rothwell and Andrei Arlovski.. Apparently McSweeney thinks he’s a better striker than them..
Sorry, but that was just driving me crazy throughout that episode..
Also, I was hoping Jones wouldn’t get matched up with Schaub..
I knew he was the worst fight for Jones because of his hands..
Good post RichS, I agree about everything you had to say about Macsweeny.
I don’t get how you guys can all so bodly claim that nobody from this season of TUF could hang with the current UFC heavyweights.
I mean really…you guys don’t think someone like Marcus Jones could beat a fighter like Stefan Struve?
Or perhaps Brendan Schaub beating a body like Mustaf Al-Turk?
Because I think they could definitely hang…not only hang, but win.
For example, look at Roy Nelson’s previous fight with Andre Arlovski. Yeah he lost, but one could argue Roy was dominating that fight until the ref stood them up (while Roy had side mount position I might add)…and Andre is a former UFC Champion!
I guess I just don’t get this train of thought that if you are a heavyweight and in the UFC…that no one outside the organization has a chance to beat you or that you are somehow untouchable.
Because I think it’s all bullshit. These guys can be defeated just like any other heavyweight fighters in the world…a UFC contract doesn’t give somebody super-human powers you know.
I guess I just don’t get the train of thought that Mostapha Al-turk and Stefan Struve are the UFC’s heavyweight elite.
OK…that is fair enough I guess.
Who do you consider the UFC’s elite then?
Lesnar, Velasquez, Carwin, Nogueira and Mir…am I missing anyone?
No need to answer…I already know that is the UFC’s elite heavyweights.
And you guys are claiming no one from a reality show can defeat them…OK, big woop. That seems pretty obvious to me. Because if they were that good then they would be ranked in the top 10 too. Right?
And I guess by that same token, we can say none of the TUF fighters could hang with Strikeforce’s elite heavyweights either.
Emelianenko, Rogers, Werdum, Overeem and Silva would probably smash them too.
So my point is…what is the point?
I thought Nelson was a great participant, and I wish they’d featured him more. He comes across as professional, focused on fighting and not melodrama. You didn’t see Nelson crying about his wife or girlfriend or momma, thank God, or throwing drunken tantrums. And he came off better than Rashad and Rampage when they got into each others’ faces and generally acted like 14 year olds. Maybe that’s part of the reason Nelson did his own thing in training. Let’s face it, he’s the favorite and probably always was, so White better find a way to like him. Nelson just keeps winnin’ and grinnin’.
Please, don’t bother argueing with Nick.
How an announcement on the line up for Saturday’s fights can turn into an Anti-Dana Tirade (re: Roy Nelson), and anti UFC (the quality of the HW division) is beyond me.
Fetus was asking a legitimate question on the level of the TUF fighters. No need to turn it into something it’s not.
They are good fighters, not yet ready to compete at the top of the division, although Roy is closer then the rest… although he may not have the upside of Schaub. Just my opinion.
I just gotta say I absolutely LOVED watching McSweeney get his little attitude, sticking his chin out and acting like “Hah! Just try to hit me!” Then Roy cracked him, knocked that attitude right out of his face, then pounded him into a stoppage.
Go away McSweeney, you aren’t even 10% as good as you think you are. Gassing as bad as you did against Shivers was just embarrassing.
I think Roy does have a place in the UFC.
IMO Roy could make it to the second round if not the third or the win against:
Nog, Mir, Cain, Dos Santos, Kongo, Herring & Rothwell. Granted that it is debatable if these guys are the “elite”. I don’t think he’d make the second round against Lesnar or Carwin though. Cain might stop the fight quick too.
Except for Overeem and Fedor I think Roy could hang in StrikeForce easy. I think he could at least make the second round of a fight with Rogers, Werdum, and probably even Overeem.
He’s no joke. If someone lit a fire under his ass and he lost some blub I think he could be a force in the LHW division especially.
I feel less confident in Schwab. Without a good grappling base it’s a long shot that he would win a fight with the any of above mentioned opposition, save Herring and Rogers.
Maybe I’ve smoked too much crack this morning though….I guess we’ll see what’s up on Saturday.
BTW one of my favorite parts of the whole season was when Roy looked at one of the other guys and said….Dude…I have 2 more fights to win or my wife is going to be pissed. LOL. That’s good stuff.
Don’t bother arguing with me?
Then why did you do it?
I wasn’t bashing Dana anywhere…only telling it like it is. I mean was I wrong in something I said? Did I miss where Dana said something positive about Roy Nelson?
Because all I can remember is Dana talking shit about the guy.
I don’t agree with it…and I will say so. If someone else has a problem with it then I guess you can just hit the thumbs down button, pray others do the same and hope my comment gets blocked.
Otherwise…just deal with it.
Here is my take on things.
First, Fuck Bimbo Splice and the 10cent whore he rode in on. I hope he gets destroyed and we never see his ass again. Now onto guys that deserve to be there.
As much as I like Marcus he just isn’t a fighter and never will be good enough to hang with the guys even at the middle of the UFC heavies but much respect for his heart and determination.
As much as I try to see this fight going any other way then Roy Nelson winning by tko I can’t find a way. Schaub isn’t the better striker he isnt better on the ground so there for Roy wins. to answer a question posed earlyer no niether of these guys could have a snowballs chance in hell against the top tier heavys in the ufc and schaub would lose 9 times out of ten against the middle tier but Roy could hang with any of the guys in the middle and thats as high as I ever see him going.
this season of tuf was the worst they ever had in my opinion and they should never do another HW season unless they find a real group of fighter and not a bunch of throw away football players.
schaub will goto 205 i think.
I don’t think he could make it without losing a decent amount of muscle. He’s walking around at 6’4 240, so unless he does a Forrest Griffin or Rumble Johnson weight cutting, I don’t think he can get that small.
I disagree that he’s not a fighter, but I do agree that he won’t be a contender in the UFC. He’s already 36, has several lingering injuries, and almost no standup in a division with KO artists busting out the seams. If we could combine his ground game with Kongo’s standup, you’d have an absolute monster on your hands. One that can speak and arrange a bouquet for your funeral.
Nick, everyone knows they can’t hang with the elite in SF or the UFC. Yet. Roy may give a few of them problems, possibly could eek out a lay and pray victory over one or two of them, but not be a real contender for a belt. I think Fetus (by the way, terribly disgusting name. No offense) was trying to ask if any of them have the potential to hang with the elites someday, not today. And I have to say, probably not. You’re right, there’s a reason they’re getting in the UFC through a reality show and not coming up from the smaller organizations like most of the hot prospects these days (other than Roy and Kimbo). But I honestly didn’t expect any different, and I haven’t expected any different since about season 3 of TUF.
Speak FRENCH. I hate when I miss mistakes like that. My bad folks.
Wow, your knowledge is so sassy and impenetrable. See, there’s a difference between making a valid argument and going off on a useless tirade spouting everything but an intelligent statement about your stance. You try to discredit my view because you can only come up with five fighters. That’s why they’re the “heavyweight elite” and stand alone amongst themselves. And where’s Dos Santos? Dana didn’t give Roy an ounce of respect because he waltzed onto the TUF show and acted like he was owed something after putting on sub-par fights to add to the pile of them this season produced. And to my question, if you feel there are heavyweights they could beat, who and why? You can’t just answer a question by saying yes with a “because I say so mentality” and expect people to be waiting for you with open arms. That’s how 10 year olds act before getting sent to their room.
Struve, Barry, Duffee, Gonzaga, and Buentello all stand a far better chance at the end of the day than either of them ever will. And you seemingly forgot the aforementioned Dos Santos, who is only a win or two away himself from being in title contention. Every fighter I just mentioned is more well rounded from the fights I’ve watched than anything I’ve seen out of Nelson and Schaub combined. Better wrestling, better striking, better submissions, better chances period. Even a CroCop in his wilted twilight I feel could walk into the ring and handle either of them (probably not but I still keep hope alive for PrideCop). Nelson’s career is padded with cans he fought in the IFL. Every legitimate form of competition he has faced he’s lost to. So in two years when Strikeforce is rummaging through the UFC’s garbage and you see Nelson or Schaub announced under their banner after not being able to even tread water in the middle of the pack on UFC undercards, remember where you read it.
So my point is people like you who seemingly can’t quite comprehend that there are opinions on the other end of the spectrum from theirs and feel that the internet is the place to take their last stand in society by making a difference on forums by offering no sound, logical evidence to back up their beliefs. See you proved it without even realizing it. Your point is “what’s the point?” because even you realize you don’t have one.
So yah…I’m with Scott H.
ding ding ding. Winner by tko
Oh, I forgot to comment on the McSweeney taunting..
He landed like 3 JABS and got all cocky, started telling Roy to hit him, and BAM!!
A huge bomb lands right on his chin..
I’ve never seen anyone so blatantly rocked..
His face went from smiling to scared all in a heartbeat.
That was the climax of the show for me.. I rewound that so many times..
What McSweeney did before Roy rocked him reminded me of how the Evans/Machida match ended, and McSweeney is Rashad’s boy. I’m glad McSweeney lost. The UFC already has one too many English pricks.
Sorry Dufresne I misspoke. I didn,t mean to say he wasn’t a fighter but rather not a MMA fighter. If he wants to stay in combat sports I feel Marcus would be better suited to Grappling competitions just because the years of training he would need to become good enough in his striking he just doesn’t have left.
No worries, I knew what you meant, and I agree with you on everything but that bit of semantics
everyone is sleepin on schaub man. that man has done nothing but overcome ever disadvantage this season ( better wrestlers heavier handed, and better on the ground) he has outclassed everyone and overcome adversity in every fight. he absorbed hard shots unfazed, was mounted by a huge guy that has sub skills..he has finished every opponent taken minimal damage. he also trains like a maniac with a star camp in colorado working with rashad marquardt carwin. steadman hawkins for wrestling. trains at grudge training center. i mean he is young with alot more time left to develop he is already headed in the right direction man. he is someone to watch for sure.
I did like Marcus up until that episode. While I was watching it I thought that no fighter could possibly be dumb enough to hold a fighter’s injury against his opponentm, I’ve never seen that in boxing or MMA. The more I thought about it the more I began to suspect that Marcus may just be a drama queen that was well aware that a tantrum by a 6’8″ giant would definitely make him the showcase of that week. I now beleieve that the Darkness has a touch of Junie Brownitis.
If Nelson loses this it will be a huge upset for me. I know ex-NFL was supposed to make me think wow real athletes or something but honestly, if I was to say to you ex-NFL players were going to go in a reality show and play tennis for a chance to be in the pro tour against Roger F and co you would laugh, well NFL has little to do with MMA as it does with tennis. I know they did fairly well and it is possible that 1 of them may win it but I mean really ex-NFL means nothing.
I guess I shouldn’t really comment to much because I only watched 2 episodes. I have never been a fan of really shows or TUF. If a fighter is good enough to make it in a given sport they do, I don’t think we need TUF to give us fighters. I know you’ll say “what about Forrest, Stevens, Evans and Nelson” as if we wouldn’t have them if it wasn’t for TUF, well for example, let me give you guys an idea of who Forrest had fought before TUF, Chael Sonnen, Horn, Fontes Bragga, Fulton and Monson to name a few, he had already made it really, all TUF did was make him a star and a cult figure to many and Nelson has already been a Champ and fought the likes of Arlovski and Rothwell. In my opinion 90% of the guys that have gone through TUF such as Forrest etc were gonna make it anyway or were already on the way up. It has given a few guys opportunities that they would not otherwise have had but they are a small minority and with the exception of perhaps Hamill have made no impact whatsoever, i would bet if “the Darkness” and co make it to the big time off the back of this season they will make as much of an impact as Junnie and co. I also believe that it has made stars out of guys that are B grade and don’t deserve to be on UFC caliber cards before or after TUF and would not or could not have made it any other way.
Amen to that.
But it’s amazing how some of those guys have progressed simply because the UFC chose to stick with them and develop them as fighters.
Corey Hill, Amir Sadollah, Kendall Grove and Matt Hamill quickly come to mind.