THE
ULTIMATE FIGHTER®
EPISODE
NINE RESULTS
Team
Jones and Team Sonnen tied after preliminary fights as Bubba McDaniel wins Wild
Card bout
Series
continues next Tuesday on FX at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Las Vegas, Nevada – The
Ultimate Fighter® returned to FX on Tuesday night with the ninth
episode of the season – “The Wild Card”. For the first time since season
13, the Wild Card fight was re-introduced, providing an opportunity for
fighters who have lost in the preliminary fights to get back in the
competition. Bubba McDaniel, representing Team Jones, defeated Kevin Casey,
representing Team Sonnen, by TKO in a shocking fashion.
Following two intense
grappling rounds in the Octagon®, Casey, 5-1 in mixed martial arts,
was unable to answer the bell for the sudden victory round, giving McDaniel,
20-6, the win and a shot at the quarterfinals. The loss marked only the third
time in TUF™ history that a fighter has failed to answer the
bell. Previously Jamie Yager (Season 11 – QF) didn't answer the bell
against Josh Bryant and David Faulkner (Season 9 – Preliminary round) didn't
answer the bell against Frank Lester.
A full recap is
available at ufc.com.
Results after episode eight:
Team Sonnen – coached by UFC® light
heavyweight Chael Sonnen – (4-4)
Kevin Casey (0-2, lost a UD to Collin Hart in
episode 4, lost via TKO [failure to answer to bell] to Bubba McDaniel in
episode 9)
Team Jones – coached by UFC®
light heavyweight champion Jon Jones – (4-4)
Bubba McDaniel (1-1, submitted by Kelvin Gastelum in
episode 5, defeated Kevin Casey by TKO [failure to answer to bell] in episode
9)
After speaking to all the
quarterfinalists one-by-one, Ultimate Fighting Championship®
President Dana White selected the quarterfinal match-ups:
Collin Hart (Team Jones) vs.
Kelvin Gastelum (Team Sonnen)
Dylan Andrews (Team Jones)
vs. Luke Barnatt (Team Sonnen)
Josh Samman (Team Jones) vs.
Jimmy Quinlan (Team Sonnen)
Bubba McDaniel (Team Jones)
vs. Uriah Hall (Team Sonnen)
The series resumes next Tuesday, March 26, on FX at 9 p.m. ET/PT
(check local listings for Central and Mountain Time). In that episode – “The
Quarterfinals Begin” – A fighter gets a surprise visit from world champion
Ronda Rousey as he prepares for his quarterfinal showdown. Then, with
boxing legend Mike Tyson in attendance, Hart faces-off against Gastelum
and Andrews meets Barnatt, trying to secure a spot in the final four.
Tickets for The Ultimate Fighter® Finale are
on-sale now. To purchase tickets to the April 13th event at Mandalay
Bay Events Center, or for more information, visit the Mandalay Bay Events
Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, www.ticketmaster.com, or
charge-by-phone at 800.745.3000.
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Tournament, visit ultimatefighter.com and
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About the Ultimate Fighting Championship®
Universally recognized for its action-packed, can’t-miss events
that have sold out some of the biggest arenas and stadiums across the globe,
the UFC® is the world’s premier mixed martial arts (MMA)
organization. Owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC, headquartered in Las Vegas and
with offices in London, Toronto and Beijing, UFC produces more than 30 live
events annually and is the largest pay-per-view event provider in the world. In
2012, the UFC burst into the mainstream with a landmark seven-year broadcast
agreement with FOX Sports Media Group. The agreement includes four live events
broadcast on the FOX network annually, with additional fight cards and thousands
of hours of programming broadcast on FOX properties FX and FUEL TV. This also
includes the longest-running sports reality show on television, The Ultimate
Fighter®, which airs on FX.
In addition to its reach on FOX, UFC programming is broadcast in
over 145 countries, to nearly 800 million TV households worldwide, in 28
different languages. UFC content is also distributed commercially in the United
States to bars and restaurants through Joe Hand Promotions, in English
throughout Canada via Premium Sports Broadcasting Inc. and Australia via Main
Event and in French throughout Quebec via Interbox. The UFC also connects with
tens of millions of fans through its website, UFC.com, as well as social media
sites Facebook and Twitter. UFC President Dana White is considered one of the
most accessible and followed executives in sports, with nearly 2.4 million
followers on Twitter. Ancillary UFC businesses include best-selling DVDs and
video games, an internationally distributed magazine, UFC.TV offering live event
broadcasts and video on demand around the world, a new franchise in development
with EA, UFC GYM®, UFC Fight Club affinity program, UFC Fan Expo®
festivals, branded apparel and trading cards.
FX
FX is the flagship general entertainment
basic cable network from Fox. Launched in June of 1994, FX is carried in more
than 98 million homes. The diverse schedule features a growing roster of
critically acclaimed and award-winning hit dramas series Sons of Anarchy
and Justified; the miniseries American Horror Story: Asylum; the
upcoming drama series The Americans; the acclaimed hit comedy series It’s
Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The League, Louie, Archer,
Wilfred, BrandX with Russell Brand, and Totally Biased withW. Kamau Bell;
and the upcoming comedy Legit. The network’s library of acquired
box-office hit movies is unmatched by any ad-supported television network. FX's
other offerings include the acquired hit series Two and a Half Men and How
I Met Your Mother, and live sports with UFC and NCAA football.
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