TUF 7 Finale Tickets On Sale
PreSale tickets for The Ultimate Fighter Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest go on sale today. UFC Fight Club members – buy tickets 4/17 @ 1pm EST. Newsletter members – buy tickets 4/18 @ 1pm EST. Presale Code: middleweight General Public – buy tickets 4/19 @ 3pm EST. Click for the latest TUF 7 Finale content on Five Ounces of Pain Read More →
The Ultimate Fighter 7: Week 3 Recap
Over the past two weeks, the first two shows have been all fights, either entire fights or highlights of fights. Now that we’ve got the field narrowed down to 16 fighters who are going to stay in the house, it’s now time to pick teams. Rampage wins the coin flip and Dana gives him the usual choice of either you can pick the first fighter or you can pick the first fight. Rampage goes with... [Read More...]
Report: Spencer Fisher vs. Jeremy Stephens at TUF 7 Finale
MMA Junkie is reporting that a lightweight match-up between Spencer Fisher and Jeremy Stephens has been confirmed for The Ultimate Fighter 7′s season finale on June 21st. Fisher (20-4) comes to this fight after pulling out of a fight with Marcus Aurelio at UFC Fight Night 13 due to injury. His last actual fight was at UFC 78 where he suffered a unanimous decision loss to Frankie Edgar.... [Read More...]
TUF 7 cast cut down from 32 to 16
After tonight’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest, sixteen fighters have been eliminated and sixteen will remain on the show to live in the house and compete for the contract. Those sixteen fighters are as follows: Mike Dolce C.B. Dollaway Nick Klein Jeremy May Dante Rivera Amir Sadollah Cale Yarbrough Paul Bradley Matthew Riddle Luke Zachrich Timothy Credeur Brandon... [Read More...]
Wednesday’s UFC TV ratings are in
Spike TV issued a press release Friday afternoon to announce the ratings for UFC-related programming that aired on Wednesday night. The one-hour premiere for the seventh-season of “The Ultimate Fighter” averaged a household rating of 1.3 and had an audience average of 1.7 million viewers. That’s only slightly above the final average for 2006, but where TUF cleaned up was in the male... [Read More...]
5 Oz. of Pain on CBS Sports: Handicapping TUF 7
My latest CBSSports.com article is now available. With the latest season of “The Ultimate Fighter” having just premiered on Spike TV this past Wednesday, I decided to break down who I consider to be the favorites to win this year’s tournament. Click here to read my TUF 7 handicapping breakdown. Read More →
The Ultimate Fighter “After Hours Sweepstakes” (TUF 7)
The folks at Spike passed this on to us – a Burger King sponsored contest where you can “have it your way” in Vegas. Winner will host a TUF Finale party on June 21st. Details below. Click graphic to enter. Check out tons of TUF 7 content on FiveOuncesofPain.com Read More →
Random Rant: Time to cut the refs some slack
Much is being made about two of the stoppages that took place during UFC Fight Night 13 on Spike TV last night and I just needed to give my two cents. I really believe we need to start giving the officials in MMA a lot more slack. Is there a tougher sport to officiate in the world than MMA? If you’re an umpire and you blow a strike call, a hitter gets sent back to the bench. In MMA, if you make... [Read More...]
Season Premiere of The Ultimate Fighter: Two Thumps Up
If you didn’t enjoy last night’s season premiere for the seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” then chances are you don’t like fighting. The first episode of TUF 7 was pretty much nothing but fights. UFC president Dana White set the stage with a variation of his infamous “Do you want to be a f—— fighter” speech and informed the cast of 32 fighters... [Read More...]
Coach Rampage sez “…a fighter’s either got it or he ain’t”.
Men’s Fitness magazine caught up with quote-machine Quinton “Rampage” Jackson for a topical interview as he promotes the season debut of The Ultimate Fighter 7. Jackson brings the ha-ha’s… MF: Everyone knows you rule the Octagon when it comes to fighting, but how do you feel about your coaching skills for the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter? QJ: “Coaching skills? I shouldn’t... [Read More...]
Report: Diego Sanchez to headline TUF 7 finale
Sources close to Sherdog.com have confirmed that winner of season 1 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” Diego Sanchez will headline “The Ultimate Fighter 7″ season finale. According to Sherdog, Luigi Fioravanti will most likely be Sanchez’s opponent with the two both having verbally agreed to the bout. Sanchez (18-2) last fought at UFC 82 where he snapped a two fight losing streak... [Read More...]
Dave Meltzer from Yahoo! Sports names all 32 cast members for The Ultimate Fighter 7
In a recent article for Yahoo! Sports, Dave Meltzer takes a look at the upcoming 7th season of “The Ultimate Fighter.” In the article Meltzer discusses the impact the Ultimate Fighter has had on Mixed Martial Arts and to a greater extent, the UFC. He also has quotes from TUF 7 coaches, Quinton Jackson and Forrest Griffin regarding the skill set of the 32 cast members. More than any season... [Read More...]
Report: Former IFL fighter Gerald Harris chosen for seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter” (TUF7)
Former IFL fighter Gerald Harris has been chosen for the upcoming seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” according to an online report by Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer: Former IFL fighter Gerald Harris is one of the 32 men picked for next season’s Ultimate Fighter reality show. He’s a damn good wrestler. (thanks to Anthony Sullivan) Harris is 6-2 overall in MMA and... [Read More...]
Meet TUF 7′s Dan Simmler (video)
MMA Junkie broke the news this week that Serra Brazilian Jiu Jitsu student Dan Simmler would be on the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show. Simmler has no professional MMA bouts and is 2-0 as an amateur but comes into the show as a highly decorated BJJ player and submission grappler. It’s tough to find video on a guy that has only two amateur MMA fights so grappling videos is... [Read More...]
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza not likely to be cast member on “The Ultimate Fighter 7″ (TUF 7)
We’ve posted several spoilers pertaining to the new cast for the upcoming seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter.” We even confirmed that a rumored member of the cast, Matt Major, is in fact NOT involved with the show. Like Major, another heavily rumored name associated with the potential TUF 7 cast is Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza. Souza is one of the greatest competitive grapplers... [Read More...]
Random Rant: Time to get excited about “The Ultimate Fighter” again (TUF 7)
In case you missed it, our friends at MMAjunkie.com broke the news yesterday that it appears that one of the new wrinkles for “The Ultimate Fighter” reality TV show promised by UFC president Dana White is that the final cast has been expanded from 16 fighters to 32. And all fighters must fight and win before they can be assigned to a team and allowed to take up residence in the TUF mansion. I... [Read More...]
Meet TUF 7′s Aaron Meisner (video)
I’m trying to round up as much video as I can find on these new TUF 7 contestants that are being announced so that I can share it with all of you. Check out this video of Aaron Meisner, one of the first contestants that FiveOuncesofPain.com announced over the weekend. It features some of his muay thai fights as well as some serious devastation in his MMA fights. Can’t wait to watch this... [Read More...]
Exclusive: Timothy Credeur selected for seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter” (TUF 7)
Timothy Credeur is the latest middleweight to be confirmed by ProElite.com (SamCaplan.ProElite.com) as being a part of the current taping of “The Ultimate Fighter 7” in Las Vegas. Credeur trains out of the Gladiator Academy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he has served as both a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a mixed martial arts instructor in the past. One of Credeur’s teammates at the... [Read More...]
Updated list of TUF 7 cast members
In the past week, FiveOuncesOfPain.com has exclusively revealed a number of future TUF 7 cast members. The current list is as follows: Mike Marrello (6-1-1) Aaron Meisner (3-0) Dante Rivera (10-3) Brandon Sene (2-0) Paul Bradley (5-0) Timothy Credeur In addition to revealing potential cast members, Five Ounces of Pain has also dispelled the longstanding rumor of Matt Major being a part of the upcoming... [Read More...]
Exclusive: Paul Bradley to be on seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter” (TUF 7)
Two-time All-American wrestler Paul Bradley is currently involved with filming for the seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” multiple sources have revealed exclusively to FiveOuncesOfPain.com (www.FiveOuncesOfPain.com). Bradley is 5-0 as a professional mixed martial artist and has never competed for the UFC. Known as being an “old school wrestler,” the former Iowa Hawkeye... [Read More...]
