The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 12 cast revealed for Sept. 15 debut on Spike TV
by Jesse Holland on Aug 3, 2010 12:36 PM EDT
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And now, let's meet our contestants ...
The 28 lightweight fighters recently selected for the upcoming twelfth season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) have been revealed for the Sept. 15 debut of the Spike TV reality series.
Leading the charge will be welterweight coaches Josh Koscheck and Georges St. Pierre who in keeping with TUF tradition, will battle it out on pay-per-view shortly after the TUF 12 Live Finale on Dec. 4, 2010.
The rematch from UFC 74: "Respect" will be for St. Pierre's 170-pound title.
Now, without further ado, the TUF 12 main cast and video introductions (courtesy of Yahoo Sports) after the jump. Anyone want to lay down some early predictions? And looks aren't everything. Remember what happened to Jamie Yager on TUF 11.
Main Cast
JASON AMBROSE
Fighting out of: Santa Clara, Calif.
Gym: American Kickboxing Academy
Record: 12-2
Age: 23
PAUL BARROW
Fighting out of: Tampa, Fla.
Gym: Gracie Tampa
Record: 2-0
Age: 24
JASON BRENTON
Fighting out of:Grand Junction, Colo.
Gym: Eighth Street Impact Boxing
Record: 6-0
Age: 23
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JONATHAN BROOKINS
Fighting out of:Orlando, Fla.
Gym: Gracie Barra Orlando
Record: 11-2
Age: 24
MIKE BUDNIK
Fighting out of:Broken Arrow, Okla.
Gym: Triton
Record:8-4
Age: 35
Alex Caceras
UFC.com
ALEX CACERES
Fighting out of:Miami, Fla.
Gym: Young Tigers Foundation
Record:4-2
Age:21
SAKO CHIVITCHIAN
Fighting out of:Glendale, Calif.
Gym: Gokor/Gene Le Bell/Hayastan MMA
Record:5-0
Age:26
JOSEPH DUFFY
Fighting out of:Donegal, Ireland
Gym: Falcon Martial Arts
Record:7-0
Age:22
PABLO GARZA
Fighting out of:Fargo, N.D.
Gym: Academy of Combat Arts
Record:7-0
Age:26
TOBY GREAR
Fighting out of:Los Angeles
Gym: True Warrior
Record:7-4-1
Age:30
DANIEL HEAD
Fighting out of:Sharpsville, Ind.
Gym: Indiana Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy
Record:6-2
Age:23
MICHAEL JOHNSON
Fighting out of:Springfield, Mo.
Gym: Springfield Fight Club
Record:8-4
Age:23
AMIR KHILLAH
Fighting out of:Kalamazoo, Mich.
Gym: Jeremy Horn's Elite
Record:6-4
Age:30
JEFF LENTZ
Fighting out of:Lanoka Harbor, N.J.
Gym: Kurt Pellegrino MMA Academy
Record:6-1
Age:21
SEVAK MAGAKIAN
Fighting out of:Glendale, Calif.
Gym: Hayastan MMA/Main Event
Record:8-3
Age:24
STEVE MAGDALENO
Fighting out of:Torrance, Calif.
Gym: VMAT MMA Gym
Record:5-1
Age:28
ANDY MAIN
Fighting out of:Boonton, N.J.
Gym: AMA Fight Club
Record:4-1
Age:21
CODY MCKENZIE
Fighting out of:Metaline, Wash.
Gym: Fancy Pants Fight Team
Record:10-0
Age:22
Nam Phan
UFC.com
T.J. O'BRIEN
Fighting out of:Prole, Iowa
Gym: Round Kick MMA
Record:13-3
Age:23
SPENCER PAIGE
Fighting out of:Watertown, N.Y.
Gym: Central New York MMA
Record:5-2
Age:24
NAM PHAN
Fighting out of:Garden Grove, Calif.
Gym: Ma Du Academy
Record:15-7
Age:27
MICHAEL RICHMAN
Fighting out of:Rosemount, Minn.
Gym: Minnesota Fight Factory
Record:8-0
Age:24
DANE SAYERS
Fighting out of:Fargo, N.D.
Gym: Academy of Combat Arts
Record:7-1
Age:22
ARIEL SEXTON
Fighting out of:San Jose, Calif.
Gym: Renzo Gracie Academy
Record:6-3
Age:28
MARC STEVENS
Fighting out of:Lorraine, N.Y.
Gym: Team Balance/Relson Gracie Academy
Record:12-5
Age:24
KYLE WATSON
Fighting out of:St. Louis
Gym: The Hit Squad
Record:13-6-1
Age:30
RAN WEATHERS
Fighting out of:Albquerque, N.M.
Gym: Greg Jackson's MMA Academy
Record:13-5
Age:28
AARON WILKINSON
Fighting out of:Manchester, England
Gym: Wolfslair MMA Academy
Record:6-3
Age:23
For more TUF 12 news and notes click here.
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This shit again.
When is it gonna stop? TUF has jumped the shark, no good guys come out of it anymore.
Big Nog for Life
Inventor/supporter of "Gleison Tibau to Featherweight" movement.
by NNR (formerly NameNotRequired) on Aug 3, 2010 12:39 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
i agree with that
I haven’t watched it for years, all the childish" I’ve just slashed your trousers/I’ve just shat in your pillow case" pranks became very tiresome.
They should definitely limit it to one run per year.
part of the reason is the focus
On the junie brownings of the show…the antics have gotten very stale..pee in food, be obnoxious in the wee hours of the morning…its so played out..and people are getting sick of it…
Activia; now with bullshitifus ridicularus
by salamagogo on Aug 3, 2010 12:45 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Wasnt crazy horse supposed to be on this season?
This is gonna be another boring dull season, coaches are boring, fighters look boring.
My prediction: alex caceres will cause trouble in the house and all fights will end with a boring decision.
Yawn.
by Lester The Pimp on Aug 3, 2010 12:45 PM EDT reply actions
Knew that name sounded familiar..
TJ OBrien…. Watched him lose to Erik Koch a couple years ago… Erik Koch is is now tearing through people in WEC…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYsRzqG_A9Q
This guys record is hilarious though… He’s won 13 fights by submission and 11 of them have been triangles… Just looks very funny when you see his record when someone wins by the same move like 10 times in a row….
"I only want to be known as the best ever. Is that too much to ask?"
-BJ Penn
"I dont know how GSP puts his jeans on with all those people hugging his nuts"... -Dan Hardy
Look at Cody McKenzies record
11-0. 10 submissions, his last night fights he has won by Guillotine Choke.
Early prediction: Nam Phan.
Also, someone said something about it below. McSweeney and Schaub train with Rashad and he ended up getting them both. I’m sure the coaches work something out when they KNOW they want someone.
*last nine.
Have no idea why I typed night.
How does it work ANS?
Are you saying that its not even the traditional half the guys Team Kos, half the guys Team GSP?
I did always think I would be pissed if I really wanted to train with both guys and I only could train with 1.
No i meant like you said Schaub and McSweeney ended up With Rashad.
Dont bank on that happening all the time
by AintNoSunshine on Aug 3, 2010 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions
they need to run all the participants
Through a 3 month cardio camp before they start the filming…soooo sick of seeing these guys gas in the second round. Its Fn sad.
Activia; now with bullshitifus ridicularus
by salamagogo on Aug 3, 2010 12:49 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
looks like a cool season.
love all the different nationalities and am for sure going to be rooting for all latinos and easterners
your mother !
PABLO GARZA BITCHES!!!
good friend and training partner of mine, actually the guy that got me started fighting. He’s a beast, usually fights at 145.
haha the Guillotine guy is funny.
Sherdog indeed shows he won his last 9 fights in a row by guillotine.
http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Cody-McKenzie-22173
Bullets dodge Fedor.
Ado......really?
Now, without further ado, the TUF 12 main cast and video introductions
Ado, really? I think you mean adieu.
Lol, that’s right up there with the La-uh (pronounced Le dash uh)
No stupid
I don’t mean adieu, because I’m not saying goodbye in French.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
by Jesse Holland on Aug 3, 2010 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions
zing!
And I don’t mean ziengg…I mean zing
Activia; now with bullshitifus ridicularus
by salamagogo on Aug 3, 2010 2:13 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
i was kinda wishing they all had names begining with "H"
just to piss GSP off the letter “H” is his kryptonite
i am gonna watch every damn episode...just because i can't help myself..
even when it sucked..even when i wanted to turn it off cuz of the bad antics..and even when i thought it had run it’s course..i am always hoping for the way it was in the first couple of seasons..and who’s kidding who..gsp is not hard to look at..only hard to listen to..lol
yea but hes from canada...who the heck wants to look at a canadian for an hour a week?
the brockness monster grinds up teenagers and puts them in his protein shakes..and uses razor blades to chop toddlers up into lines to snort like meth...the reason no one can find bigfoot is because the brockness monster found him years ago and now has him in numerous ziplock bags in the back of his freezer...
You wouldn’t boof a Canadian just to prove superiority?
Our lives change like the weather, but a legend never dies.
Joseph Duffy
WOW!!!
I train with him (he’s a fucking beast too).
I wanna know what happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Try and get some answers out of him at training later.
I'm mad
surprise to see no one fighting out of Tristar in Montreal
My P4P Top 5:
1) GSP 2) Aldo 3) A. Silva 4)Shogun 5) Fedor
With someone from Ireland and from England does this mean we’ll have to put up with the patronising subtitles again every time they speak?
by can't spell anarchy on Aug 3, 2010 6:48 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
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