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Live on Spike TV – The Ultimate Fighter Finale: Team Nog vs. Team Mir at the The Pearl, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Finale features the last battles for the Lightweight and Light Heavyweight Ultimate Fighter Team Noguiera vs Team Mir season winners.

Ultimate Fighter Finale Main Fight Card
* Phillipe Nover (6-0-1) vs. Efrain Escudero (11-0) wins by UD!
* Ryan Bader (8-0) vs. Vinny Magalhaes (3-2) wins by TKO in RD1!
* Kevin Burns (7-1) vs. Anthony Johnson (5-2) wins by KO in RD3!
* Wilson Gouveia (11-5) vs. Jason MacDonald (21-10) wins by TKO in RD1!
* Junie Browning (2-1) vs. Dave Kaplan (3-1) wins by Armbar in RD2!

Preliminary Card
* Krysztof Soszynski (16-9-1) vs. Shane Primm (1-0) wins by DWL/Kimura in RD2!
* Eliot Marshall (5-2) vs. Jules Bruchez wins by RNC in RD1!
* Kyle Kingsbury (7-1-1) vs. Tom Lawlor (4-1-1) wins by UD!
* Shane Nelson (11-3) vs. George Roop (8-4) wins by Split Decision!
* Rolando Delgado (7-3-1) vs. John Polakowski (2-1) wins by Guillotine in RD1!

Prologue
The 7th installment of season 8 revolved around highlighting Vinicius Magalhaes. The episode begins in the locker room of Team Mir, and starts with Mir cussing out Julie Browning for his win over Roli Delgado. He further degrades Roli by suggesting that he fought a worthless opponent that should have been KOed in a minute. “Let’s be realistic. You just went three rounds with Rolando. Rolando. You showed some chinks in your armor, so the next guy’s not going to be afraid.”

While correct about the second half of this statement, Frank is still blissfully unaware of the legitimacy of Roli’s Black Belt and unimpressed by Roli’s performance, though EVERYONE else was, including Julie. Mir continues to berate Julie for a while, and uncharacteristically is agreeing with everything Frank is saying and swears he will take conditioning seriously from now on in. I won’t hold my breathe.

Team Mir Training
Mir announces that Jules Bruchez will be fighting Vinicius Magalhaes.

Switching from the locker room to the training room, Team Mir is working on their conditioning by taping their noses shut and wearing snorkels. Yes, snorkels. Mir then spews a few minutes of pseudo science explaining how by having difficulty breathing yet executing a cardiovascular intense workout, one can improve their overall cardiovascular endurance. Apparently, Mir is not up to date on current Sports Science, since his idea was disproven in the 70s. While he may be increasing lung capacity to some extent WHILE someone is running, which is simple GPP (which they have plenty of already), if he wants to increase their endurance in a fight he needs to make it more specific: have them spar with the snorkels on. Hey, it’s not my idea.

Something fishy in the filfy streets of Rio
The storyline that the episode centers on is the argument between Vinicius Magalhaes and Nog. Apparently they rolled prior to the first episode and Vinny did surprisingly well. Anyone who trains knows that this is really meaningless because of the variables involved. However, Mir was trying to pry some pointers out of that particular session that he could possibly use in his upcoming fight against Nog.

Vinny basically got out of that session, that in sport BJJ he felt he was the more technical player as he felt Nog’s game was “very basic”. I felt it was a fair evaluation and wasn’t to be disrespectful. Mir was asking and he answered. However, he must have felt deep down inside somewhere that he should have kept mum since he finished with “They’re going to kill me in Brazil.”

Nog comes by the house as he often does, and since it’s his B-Day and he has mentioned he is missing his family, Team Nog made supper and even baked Nog a cake. Shane Nelson feeling usurped by Julie and wishing to assert that he is the much larger jerk comments “Team Nogueira sucks. They are too close too soon. They act like they’ve known each other for 20 years.” and a bunch of other comments. Heaven forbid, because you were neglected as a child you should think showing an affinity for your coach and team mates is a weakness and unmanly. Quite the reverse actually.

The next day, the team mentions to Nog about Vinny and Mir’s conversation. Nog is NOT happy. Nog confronts Vinny and the two switch to Portuguese and begin to argue and it spills from the training center into the locker room. Nog is repeating “You blew it with me, man.” and mentions that Vinny was actually his 2nd pick and he was looking forward to training with Vinny, but after hearing this Nog says “We are enemies now.” WTF wants to be enemies with Nog!?! Vinny spends the next few minutes trying to convince Nog that he wasn’t trying to be disrespectful. Rightfully so. He wasn’t degrading or belittling Nog. He tells Nog how highly he thinks of him and his accomplishments, but Nog is too hot and ends the conversation by saying an apology will be forthcoming if he confirms that Vinny wasn’t being disrespectful, but for now it stands “We are enemies.” GULP.

Jules Bruchez vs. Vinicius Magalhaes
The fight is hella uneventful for the first few minutes. Jules completely freezes and looks like a deer caught in headlights. He backs up constantly and does next to nothing. Vinicius doing the unexpected kickboxes with Jules, which really was Jules only chance in the fight. So he HELPED Jules, but Jules was nervous and didn’t execute an aggressive gameplan. Vinny lands a VICIOUS kick to the body that forms an instant welt. Some light punches are exchanged and eventually a clinch happens. Vinicius goes for a flying armbar which he said he would attempt. They go to the ground, Jules gets swept and mounted. Vinny transitions to an S-Mount, looks like he is going for a Locoplata, but transitions to a modified armbar which elicits a tap from Jules. Fight over.

Next week: the remaining 4 Lightweights will do battle.

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Official TUF 8 Cast!
Well, it’s official. UFC and Spike TV, in conjunction with Sports Illustrated have revealed the cast for the 8th installment of the hit TV series ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ dubbed “Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir”. The new season will kick off on September 17th on Spike TV following the broadcast of UFC Fight Night 15 and will air each subsequent Wednesday night at 10:00pm ET/PT.

This season will feature both Light Heavyweights (205#s) and Lightweights (155#s), preliminary bouts will be held during the first two episodes to pair down the field from 32 to 16. The two finalists in each weight class will meet in “The Ultimate Fighter 8” Live Finale on Dec. 13 in Las Vegas live on Spike TV.

UFC heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Frank Mir will be the 2 opposing coaches and will fight at the UFC’s end-of-the-year show in December. Assisting Nog will be Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida. Helping out Frank Mir will be Abu Dhabi 2007 Absolute Winner Robert Drysdale (by beating Marcelo Garcia) and Rafael Alejarra.

The cast this year has an international flavor with contestants from not only the expected nations like Brazil and the US, but Israel, Russia and Nova Scotia. In addition, after each episode Spike.com users will get exclusive extended footage from each episode and an exclusive video leak of the upcoming episode.

OK guys! WHO IS GONNA WIN?!?!? Give us the scoop on a fighter you think will win! So far the buzz is that these guys are the monsters: Junie Browning, Efrain Escudero, Ryan Jimmo, Vinicius Magalhaes, & Shane Primm.

Lightweight Cast! (155#s)

Jose Aguilar
Grapplers Edge
Las Cruces, NM

Fernando Bernstein
San Clemente, CA

Junie Allen Browning
Four Seasons Martial Arts
Lexington, KY

Rolando Delgado
Westside Fight Team
North Little Rock, AR

Joseph Duarte
Unleashed Training Facility / Alliance MMA
San Diego, CA

Efrain Escudero
Southwest Martial Arts
Tempe, AZ

Brandon Garner
Team ROC
Raleigh, NC

David Kaplan
Lloyd Irvin Team
Camp Springs, MD

Eric Magee
South Shore Sport
Rockland, MA

Brian McLaughlin
Team Gracie Tampa
Tampa, FL

Wesley Murch
Trojan Gym
Bristol, UK

Shane Nelson
B.J. Penn’s MMA
Hilo, HI

Phillipe Nover
Team Renzo Gracie (Pictures)
Brooklyn, NY

Ido Pariente
Tel Aviv, Israel

John Polakowski
The Pit
San Luis Obispo, CA

George Roop
Ultima MMA
Tucson, AZ

Light Heavyweight Cast! (205#s)

Ryan Bader
Arizona Combat Sports
Chandler, AZ

Antwain Britt
Bombsquad MMA
Virginia Beach, VA

Jules Bruchez
Ronan Dojo
Lafayette, LA

Charles Diaz
SD Fight Club
San Diego, CA

Lance Evans
TKO MMA
Niagara Falls, NY

Karen Grigoryan
RusFighters Sport Club
Russia

Jason Guida
Hellhouse Gym
Chicago, IL

Ryan Jimmo
Titans MMA
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Kyle Kingsbury
American Kickboxing Academy
Sunnyvale, CA

Tom Lawlor
American Top Team
Oviedo, FL

Ryan Lopez
Oklahoma City, OK

Vinicius Magalhaes
Team Quest
Temecula, CA

Eliot Marshall
Eastern Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Boulder, CO

Sean O’Connell
Salt Lake City, UT

Shane Primm
Team Gracie Tampa
Tampa, FL

Krzysztof Soszynski
Team Quest
Temecula, CA

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