THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER®
FINAL EPISODE RESULTS
Uriah
Hall and Kelvin Gastelum set to meet in the series finale
This
Saturday’s The Ultimate Fighter Finale card revealed
Las Vegas, Nevada – And then there were two. The Ultimate Fighter®
returned to FX on Tuesday night, with the final episode of its seventeenth
season, featuring two semifinal elimination fights. New Yorker Uriah Hall
and Kelvin Gastelum of Yuma, Ariz. secured their berths in the final and
moved within reach of a lucrative contract with the Ultimate Fighting
Championship® and a brand new Harley Davidson.
Gastelum continued to utilize his impressive wrestling, submitting
favored Josh Samman at 4:02 of the first round via rear naked choke. Hall
followed in the second semifinal of the evening, spending 9:49 in the Octagon®
- more than his two previous fights combined - before securing a TKO victory
over Dylan Andrews.
The fighters will square off in the final at The Ultimate
Fighter Finale on Saturday, April 13. Given that both fighters were members
of Team Sonnen, UFC light heavyweight challenger Chael Sonnen has officially
won the Harley Davidson motorcycle, presented to the winning coach.
A full recap is available at ufc.com and
below are the season results at a glance:
Team Sonnen – coached by UFC® light heavyweight Chael Sonnen – (8-6)
Luke Barnatt (1-1, TKO win over Gilbert Smith in
episode 2, TKOd by Dylan Andrews in episode 10)
Uriah Hall (3-0, KOd Adam Cella in episode 3, KOd
Bubba McDaniel in episode 11, TKOd Dylan Andrews in episode 12)
Zak Cummings (0-1, lost a UD to Dylan Andrews in
episode 8)
Tor Troeng (0-1, TKOd by Josh Samman in episode 6)
Jimmy Quinlan (1-1, submitted Clint Hester in episode 7,
tapped to strikes from Josh Samman in episode 11)
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)
Kelvin Gastelum (3-0, submitted Bubba McDaniel in episode
5, defeated Collin Hart by TKO in episode 10, submitted Josh Samman in episode
12)
Team Jones – coached by UFC®
light heavyweight champion Jon Jones – (6-8)
Clint Hester (0-1, submitted by Jimmy Quinlan in
episode 7)
Josh Samman (2-1, TKO win over Tor Troeng in episode
6, TKO win over Jimmy Quinlan [tapped to strikes] in episode 11, submitted by
Kelvin Gastelum in episode 12)
Bubba McDaniel (1-2, submitted by Kelvin Gastelum in
episode 5, defeated Kevin Casey by TKO [failure to answer to bell] in episode
9, knocked out by Uriah Hall in episode 11)
Gilbert Smith (0-1, TKOd by Luke Barnatt in episode 2)
Collin Hart (1-1, defeated Kevin Casey by UD in
episode 4, TKOd by Kelvin Gastelum in episode 10)
Adam Cella (0-1, KOd by Uriah Hall in episode 3)
Dylan Andrews (2-1, defeated Zak Cummings by UD in
episode 8, defeated Luke Barnatt by TKO in episode 10, TKOd by Uriah Hall in
episode 12)
All but two of this season’s cast members will make their return
on the Finale card, as Thor Troeng recently submitted Adam Cella at UFC on
FUEL TV®: MOUSASI vs. LATIFI. The full fight card is now
available at ufc.com.
Tickets for The Ultimate Fighter® Finale are
on-sale now. To purchase tickets visit the Mandalay Bay Events Center Box
Office, all Ticketmaster locations, www.ticketmaster.com, or charge-by-phone at
800.745.3000.
The Ultimate Fighter® Finale takes place Saturday, April 13, live from
the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nev. The event will air live
on FX at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
For more show information, and your chance to play the TUF Fantasy
Tournament, visit ultimatefighter.com and follow us on Twitter @TUFonFX
or on Facebook.com/TUF.
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 with W.
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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