Sports Illustrated has revealed the 32 fighters who will kick off the eighth season of The Ultimate Fighter.
Lightweights
Jose Aguilar (17-3-0)
Fernando Bernstein (2-0-0)
Junie Allen Browning (2-0-0)
Rolando Delgado (7-3-1)
Joseph Duarte (3-0-0)
Charles Diaz (14-4-0)
Efrain Escudero (10-0-0)
Brandon Garner (4-1-0)
David Kaplan (3-1-0)
Brian McLaughlin (5-0-0)
Wesley Murch (4-2-0)
Shane Nelson (11-3-0)
Phillipe Nover (5-0-1)
Ido Pariente (13-4-0)
John Polakowski (3-1-0)
George Roop (7-3-0)
Light Heavyweights
Ryan Bader (7-0-0)
Antwain Britt (4-0-0)
Jules Bruchez (3-2-0)
Lance Evans (4-2-0) (brother of Rashad Evans)
Karen Grigoryan (5-0-0)
Jason Guida (26-13-0) (brother of Clay Guida)
Ryan Jimmo (6-1-0)
Kyle Kingsbury (7-1-1)
Tom Lawlor (6-2-0)
Ryan Lopez (5-3-0)
Vinicius Magalhaes (2-2-0)
Eric Magee (3-1-0)
Eliot Marshall (5-1-0)
Sean O'Connell (1-0-0)
Shane Primm (1-0-0)
Krzysztof Soszynski (16-8-1)
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Do they ever plan to fill out some other divisions? :\
by mythbuster on Aug 18, 2008 2:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Good for Dave Kaplan and Antwain Britt.
by Luke Thomas on Aug 18, 2008 2:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
There’s no way in hell Grigoryan is fighting at 205.
by George Lucas on Aug 18, 2008 2:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I was thinking they put him in the wrong list, but I guess some guys will go to whatever lengths necessary to get on TUF.
by Chris Nelson on Aug 18, 2008 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He’s gonna be significantly smaller… I hope he does good. Anyways when does the season start?
by asmiley420 on Aug 18, 2008 2:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
September 17.
"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'"
by BJJDenver on Aug 18, 2008 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Go Eliot “The Fire” Marshall!!
"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'"
by BJJDenver on Aug 18, 2008 2:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
What about heavyweights?
Having two heavyweight coaches would have been a perfect time to have heavyweight TUF contestants to start rebuilding the division, but instead we get more lightweights? This is a major goof, IMHO.
by thetakeover on Aug 18, 2008 3:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The HWs are so weak already. they have a couple of young guys coming up and as far as I know, there probably aren’t another 16 out there to fill the show.
Somehow, I get the feeling they are waiting on a couple of promotions to fold, then sign some of their HWs.
"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'"
by BJJDenver on Aug 18, 2008 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Actually a lot of guys on this list seem to fit comfortably in heavyweight. I’m sure some dramatic weight cutting segments will be made.
by George Lucas on Aug 18, 2008 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t even think there is enuff up and coming HW propects they could do a TUFF with right NOW ? THE HW devision in all of MMA is hurting real Bad, Even in the smaller shows you harldy ever see a half way decent HW fight anymore shit you are lucky if you even see a HW fight on a smaller show today. Pretty Much Zuffa has the 3 top HW propects now in Brock,Cane and Shane Carwin.
by Shocbomb on Aug 18, 2008 8:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
From MMAWeekly...
Though no official announcements have been made in regards to assistant coaches, there is heavy speculation that UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and light heavyweight contender Lyoto Machida will assist Nogueira, while Mir is expected to be assisted by Abu Dhabi submission champion Robert Drysdale and Wanderlei Silva conditioning coach Rafael Alejarra.
by Chris Nelson on Aug 18, 2008 3:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I heard that Machida and Silva are drop-ins and not the regular coaches, but I could be wrong.
"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'"
by BJJDenver on Aug 18, 2008 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks to whoever updated the picture.
Reminds me of:
by Chris Nelson on Aug 18, 2008 5:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
MMAPayout has the hi-res photo. Frank Mir is the only guy smiling.
http://www.mmapayout.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/tuf82.jpg
by Chris Nelson on Aug 18, 2008 6:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Jason Guida?
There really isn’t enough talent floating around to put this show on in a meaningful way anymore.
by The Ghost of Spike Owen on Aug 18, 2008 7:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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by Chris Nelson on Aug 18, 2008 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think he made it into the house, so…
"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'"
by BJJDenver on Aug 19, 2008 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
actually not a bad line up of fighters better then last years Tuff !!!!
by Shocbomb on Aug 18, 2008 8:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I understand that they want to keep the steam rolling with MMA and TUF but this is season 8 now. I think it would be wise to fall into a regular tv format. The lull can actually create its own hype as people wait for it to come back on. And maybe then they can take the time to decipher which divisions need it the most and which fighters to incorporate in the seasons.
by Simco on Aug 19, 2008 1:15 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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