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Both coaches were participating in a series of TUF for the second time. Hughes was a coach on The Ultimate Fighter 2 and Serra won the welterweight tournament on The Ultimate Fighter 4. Unlike in previous seasons, the winner of a match did not determine which team picked the next match.
The Ultimate Fighter was originally an experimental series financed by the former owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III.The series was aired on Spike TV as a last resort measure to gain mainstream exposure for mixed martial arts (MMA).
The main event was originally scheduled to have The Ultimate Fighter 6 coaches Matt Serra and Matt Hughes for Serra's UFC Welterweight Championship, which Serra won at UFC 69: Shootout on April 7, 2007, in an upset victory over Georges St-Pierre. [2]
Returning to the bantamweight division, Coach Ortega selected his team’s Dan Argueta to face Team Volkanovski’s Rickey Turcios for the sixth fight. Episode 6 Let the Games Begin (July 6, 2021) [12] Ortega decided it was time to start a prank war. Team Ortega started off by removing the wheels and leaving their vehicles on car jack lifts.
The pairing was then postponed a few months as both fighters were named head coaches for The Return of The Ultimate Fighter: Team Volkanovski vs. Team Ortega. [8] A UFC Women's Flyweight Championship bout between current champion Valentina Shevchenko and former Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion Lauren Murphy served as the co-headliner. [6]
Mac was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 6, Danzig defeated Joe Scarola in a preliminary fight and later defeated John Kolosci to make it to the semifinals. He then defeated Kolosci (who had replaced an injured Matt Arroyo) again, and moved on to the finals where he submitted Tom Speer in the 1st round to become TUF Season 6 winner.
As a coach makes a pick, the corresponding fighter based on seed will go to the other coach (e.g., if the #1 seeded fighter is picked by a coach, the #16 seeded fighter will go to the other coach). The eight coaches' picks (and corresponding seed sent to the other team as well as the organizations they are champions):
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson is the sixteenth main installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)-produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. This season reverted to the taped format, after The Ultimate Fighter: Live's 12-week live format. The previous season saw the show be revamped.