Another episode, another upset. Jimmy Quinlan, relentless with his takedown attempts, took out Clint Hester with a rear naked choke in the second round.

Current win tally is Team Sonnen 4, Team Jones 2.

Next week is the remaining opening-round matchup: Zak Cummings vs Dylan Andrews.

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Another big upset in Episode 6, and our top ranked seed bites the dust as Josh Samman puts Tor Troeng to sleep with a beatiful punch combination. Team Jones gets another win and regains control of the matchups.

Current win tally is Team Sonnen 3, Team Jones 2.

Next week: Jimmy Quinlan vs Clint Hester.

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In Episode 5, a huge upset took place as the least experienced fighter of the cast, twenty-one year old Kevin Gastelum defeated the second-ranked contender Robert ‘Bubba’ McDaniel. Gastelum forced a tapout with a rear naked choke late in the second round, after a back-and-forth ground fight for positioning.

Current win tally is Team Sonnen 3, Team Jones 1.

Next week: top ranked contender Tor Troeng takes on Josh Samman. According to Coach Sonnen, there were not many takers to fight either of these guys. Which means that the winner of this fight may be the guy that Dana White said no one in the house wants to fight.

Then again, Dana White once said that Phil Nover is the next Anderson Silva, so take it with a grain of salt… or the whole shaker.

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In Episode 4, Team Jones gets on the board with the first notable upset of the season, as Collin Hart controlls Kevin ‘The King’ Casey for a unanimous 20-18 decision.

Team Sonnen 2, Team Jones 1.

Next week: Bubba McDaniel vs Kelvin Gastelum.

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In Episode 3, Team Sonnen widens the lead and keeps control of the matchups as Uriah Hall knocked out Adam Cella with a brutal spinning kick that left Cella unconscious for several minutes.

Team Sonnen 2, Team Jones 0.

Next week: Kevin Casey vs Collin Hart.

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In Episode 2, the first team-vs-team bout took place and Team Jones took their first casualty as Gilbert Smith was knocked out in the second round, courtesy of a flying knee from Luke Barnatt.

Interestingly, a number of Team Jones voiced a vote of no confidences in their teammate prior to the fight, and even asked the coaches to change the matchup as they felt Gilbert’s conditioning was not up to par. Coach Jones stuck by his pick, and though Smith lost it turned out his conditioning had little to do with it.

Team Sonnen 1, Team Jones 0.

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Here we go again, with another season of the seemingly endless Ultimate Fighter series. This one is featuring fourteen middleweights, and coached by the reigning UFC lightheavyweight champion Jon Jones and his next challenger Chael Sonnen. As has been the case in most recent seasons, the show starts out with 28 fighters facing off in the first episode, with the winners moving into the ‘TUF’ house and the losers going home.

Some notable facts, thus far:

• Sweden’s Tor ‘The Hammer’ Troeng is the only Top 50 ranked fighter on the season, head and shoulders above the remaining pool.
• Only fourteen fighters are in the house instead of the usual sixteen; two of the first-round losers will be brought back in ‘wildcard’ spots.
• Most of the preliminary matchups were won by the higher ranked fighter (11/14)
• There is a much more even distribution of ranked fighters among the two teams than in Season 16 (which was ultimately won by the unranked Colton Smith)

After the fights are over, coaches pick their teams, and here’s how they stack up:

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In Episode 10, Team Nelson took a win in the first quarter-final bout, as Colton Smith outgrappled and dominated Igor Araujo for a unanimous decision.

In the second quarter-final fight, two of Team Carwin fighters squared off, and Neil Magny came away the winner with another unanimous decision after two rounds.

This is another season of upsets, as the top 6 ranked fighters are already eliminated from the competition.

The current win tally is Team Carwin 4, Team Nelson 5 in head-to-head matchups.

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In Episode 9, Mike Ricci defeated Dom Waters in a three-round unanimous decision, giving Team Carwin their fourth win and tying the tally at 4-4 in the first round bouts.

Quarter-Final matchups were announced, and two of them will be pitting teammates against each other:

[#72 MW] Bristol Marunde vs [#327 MW] Neil Magny
[#142 WW] Igor Araujo vs [NR] Colton Smith
[#441 WW] Joey Rivera vs [#496 WW] John Manley
[#164 WW] Mike Ricci vs [#489 WW] Mike Hill

The current win tally is Team Carwin 4, Team Nelson 4 in head-to-head matchups.

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In Episode 8, Team Nelson keeps control of the matchups, and pulls ahead for the first time as John Manley forced a tapout from James Chaney with a guillotine choke in the first round. James ‘The Snake’ Chaney lived up to his nickname, biting Manley to try to escape the choke.

Dana White visited the fighters in the TUF house, giving his patented “do you want to be a fighter” speech, and threatening that all the fighters won’t get a slot at the finale if they don’t step up their performances. Judging by the fact that there are 12 bouts already lined-up for the December 15th live finale, the fighters didn’t take heed to his words and Dana lives up to his promise.

Next week, Dom Waters takes on Mike Ricci in the remaining first-round matchup.

The current win tally is Team Carwin 3, Team Nelson 4.

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In Episode 7, Coach Nelson once again leaves the match-making to chance and his fighters. This time it works out better for the team, with some help from the judges, as Mike Hill scores a split decision win after going three rounds with Matt Secor. Another bizzare decision – this is the theme for the season. As usual, Dana White is exasperated and furious with the judges.

The current win tally is Team Carwin 3, Team Nelson 3.

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