The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) Season 8 is taking the week off for Thanksgiving and will not air a new episode in tonight’s usual spot at 10pm ET on SpikeTV.
If you can’t live without your weekly dose of splushi and human lemonade, I’m happy to report that you can still catch the past four episodes tonight at 8pm ET starting with Episode 7: ‘Body Bag’.
Be sure to tune in the following Wednesday, December 3, to catch all four of the semifinal match-ups when episodes 11 and 12 are shown back-to-back.
Not only do we get to see some semifinal butt-kicking, but also the final meltdown of lightweight Junie Browning and the consequences that follow it.
The semifinal matches are (in order):
Ryan Bader vs. Eliot Marshall (LHW)
Phillipe Nover vs. George Roop (LW)
Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Vinny Magalhaes (LHW)
Junie Browning vs. Efrain Escudero (LW)
From a fan’s perspective, the semifinals look to be very exciting fights. Aside from perhaps Nover vs. Roop, I can see all of the fights going in either direction. The winners in each respective weight class will face off at The Ultimate Fighter live finale on December 13.
Who gets past the semis and who goes home? Will Junie survive another episode? Find out all this and more at the conclusion of Season 8 on December 3.
See you then!
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You guys don’t watch t.v. up there during thanksgiving?
Am I the only guy sad to see the shield end and happy that I didn’t have to sit through TUF last night? The shield was probably the longest running show that my wife and I enjoy together seeing I’m a history, national geographic channel guy and sports, and she’s a HGTV type! I’ll miss that show quite a bit!
Right there with you, bro . . . that show was a classic!!
Tough doesn’t come on on tuesdays. And Texas is not covering against a&m
they’ve lost straight up 2 years in a row, and need BCS style points! Give me a few reasons they don’t blow A&M out!
I’m a Sooner fan, I gotta hope they don’t do well in that game.
No hard fact reasons though, just a hope and a dream right now. I’m also looking for upsets on Alabama/Auburn or Florida/florida State
ok james, I’m locked in. 3 favorites and 3 overs in NFL!
didn’t play the texas game!
I meant thursday, my bad!
see roy, I just admitted I was wrong!
lol, every once and awhile you do
yeah cause every once in a while I’m wrong! lol
Kevin: Damn right I was sad to see the sheild end last night! As for this season of TUF, i dont even watch it….how could I? when Sons of Anarchy airs at the same time! That show is AMAZING!! I look forward to tonight’s 1 and a half hour season Finale of Sons of Anarchy! fOR THOSE THAT HAVE YET TO GIVE soa A CHANCE, i HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU GUYS WATCH IT! GREAT SHOW!~
Hey Kevin, I’m a huge fan of The Shield. One of very few shows, that I’d honestly give a 10.
If you want another show that’s just as good as The Shield, I highly recommend Nip/Tuck. It’s brilliantly written, and it’s just as compelling and interesting as The Shield. Furthermore, this is the one show I find that crosses gender lines. Men and women both enjoy it, and that means you and your wife can continue spending great nights together, sharing your love for a common television series again!
Also, if you’re into Science Fiction, give Battlestar Galactica a shot. Another mature TV series for grownups. I don’t watch SciFi much, other than for Twilight Zone and Beyond Belief, but this is a true gem. You might wanna pick it up by DVDs though, ’cause you wanna start from the beginning. I recommend you wait on this one, as Battlestar DVDs are hugely overpriced. Sooner or later, I expect the price to drop to $20 or at least $25. That’s when it’ll be ripe for pickings.
If you have Netflix of BB Online, even better.
thanks buddy, I’ll take a pass on the battlestar galactica, but I think my wife has watched nip/tuck before.
for prime time T.V. I like: terminator, heroes is ok, and my wife loves prison break! We enjoy dexter together and entourage, other than that, like I said it’s nat geo, history and at 9 o clock on espn classic, classic awa wrestling from the 80’s!!! lol!
Browning vs Nover
Bader vs Soszynski
and Vinny will win his semi too
vinny’s gonna throw a leg kick and get dropped with a right hand. early.
bader by GnP
nover by what ever way he likes
vinny by some crazy submission
and junie by tko
bader v vinny
nover v junie
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Efrain is going to DESTROY Junie!
BTW, I was reading an interesting article and Extreme Couture coach Shawn Tomkins was talking about how much progreess Junie is making and how Junie is living with tomkins so Shawn can keep an eye on him!
Junie will be awarded a contract for sure, just not the 6 figure contract!
whats the url for the website for the article i wouldnt mind reading it.
nah marshall is gonna sub bader.
roop is biting off more than he can chew this time round.
lol, he has no chance. any warrior ticket hook ups jonsey?
sorry kevin no hook up. read my post in the ufn 16 thread.
Kevin, for a guy who claims to make so much money, you sure want alot of things for free! Begging stinky to take you to see GSP vs Penn! And now you want a hookup for basketball? Wheres all your supposed money?
who said anything about free? the game is sold out, looking to buy tickets! would I rather pay super mark up at stub hub or find a “hook up?”
I paid a grand for pats/niners tickets and flew my grandmother in for the game, sorry if I don’t want to shell out that kind of money for the warriors game! Where I’m from, I can get celtics court-side free! Pats luxury boxes, free! it’s called connections, here in cali, I got none!
as far as stinky goes, I would NEVER pay to go to a UFC event live! not worth it to me to be around a bunch of drunk “fans” who boo when the fight hits the ground! But if I was “invited” I’d go!
Like I said before buddy, my life is an open book, I got no reason to lie, and don’t care what anyone thinks! I love my life!
the only reason I mentioned it to stinky is because we live in the same area and I felt he may actually be up for it, by the way!
what a waste of 90 seconds explaining myself to you!
i went to ufc 73 and it was fun just for the atmosphere. there is no good view at a fight as far as i’m concered.
it was mainly cool just to meet a lot of the fighters in the crowd. nate and nick diaz stole some seats litteraly right next to me. i shook hands with scott smith in the bathroom line and got a picture with ed herman when i was going to get a beer. no real big names but they were all really cool and nick has been my favorite fighter since his beef with diego.
exactly, my 50″ on a comfy sofa alone is a great view in my opinion! to each his own!
That is the onlything good about being in attendance…. It is awesome but you have to look at the monitors to watch the fight. Best seat in the house is actually in your house.
even rogan and goldie watch it on a tv to get the best angles and they’re litterally close enough to get sprayed with bodily fluids.
why no reply introvert? cat got your tongue?
Now he is just living up to his name!
kevin, somebody said something to you in the ufc promo thread (i think)!!! and boy its not nice!!!
The 2 LHW fights are going to be bad@ss!!! All 4 fighters are pretty good! Junie has a tough fight with Efrain! And Nover has an easy trip to the finals!
i think you put it best jv. i’m hoping to see bader vs krystoff in the finals.
Bader/Krzysztof would be good! That would set up Vinny/Marshall, both very good JJ guys!
JV. it looks like ufc 91 did about 850k buys according to meltzer. not quite 1.2 mil or the biggest of all time(it ranks 2nd), but its still monumental in todays economy. and all those people who bought it had to have been impressed with this event, and will want to come back for more. showing all 9 fights really gave people their money’s worth.
Browning and Roop are in trouble…
Pretty sure Browning wouldn’t be training at extreme couture if he lost in the semi’s.
Him training there doesn’t mean anything in regards to how he did in TUF.
Well think about it after he wins the semi’s and is training at Extreme Couture for the finals.
You’re right Dirty….Junie will beat Efrain and it will be him and Phillipe in the finals, where he will most likely get his a$$ handed to him.
Can somebody tell me why mmaweekly.com ranks Couture 5 spots ahead of Lesnar? I seem to remember Couture getting a serious beat down from Lesnar.
Because rankings are a waste of time and are never right.
who gives a crap about rankings seriously? i mean like this guy is #1 today and #2 tomorrow…i think its sad that people live by those rankings and get furious when they change week to week. who cares? i just want to see some good a$$ fights!
Two reasons. First Lesnar is 4 fights in with a loss and therefore it is a miracle that he is even mentioned in top 10 discussion. Secondly, Randy was very highly regarded before his loss.
This is like if Kimbo went in and KOed Nog at Elite XC Heat
is eazy-e really your dad?
I am sure there are alot of people that can answer “yes” to that question…..
wouldn’t half of them be infected?
Nate, most of the rankings are just bullsh*t! Fedor being ranked #1 HW is a good example! His only relevant fight in 3yrs is Tim Silvia!
Best rankings on Earth: mmaranks.com
you must be kidding.
Yes, I am.
because
oh man, no TUF tonight…that’s what i look forward to on Wednesday nights. well thanks for the heads up Mania.
maybe you guys can now tell us the winner of the Tee Hate Me contest?? (please)
Montreal vs Detroit and LA vs Edmonton on doubleheader for TSN if you are a fan of hockey.
i don’t get TSN on Dish for some reason…is there any good basketball games on…god has it come to basketball now?! I need to go watch a movie before i die of boredom!
rankings suck in mma i think kenny florian is top 5 lightweight he would beat aoki he has good enough bjj to stay out submission and better wrestling and better stand up florian would tko aoki who is ranked 3rd what do you think
episode 12 is called three strikes which could mean junie gets kicked off the show three strikes and your out
and in the preview it show junie pushing shane primm and bottles are flying everywhere
I still think Junie can get away with murder on that show…they could have video evidence of him stabbing someone and Dana still won’t fire him.
DANA WHITE already gave it away that Junie stays on the show. He said it in one of his UFC91 video blogs. Comments from mmamania that day noted that if Junie stated that he was training with Extreme Couture, then he probably won the show. They need to show the damn thing tonight, now get on that dana, immediately!!
The guys who win the show I guess is:
Ryan Bader (LHW)
+
Phillipe Nover (LW)
man, the lhw were easy to call in this one. when they first announced the names i called krystof on this board like months ago.
you’re cool!
No Johnny he is super cool! I will laugh if Vinny wins now(even though I hate his smug ass)!
Hahaha, I hate Vinny too but he’ll win over Krzysztof for sure.
Krzysztof got way too many holes in his game + Vinny is THAT much better at BJJ.
** For the ones that still believe that Krzysztof is going to take the whole thing please explain to me how and when he’ll win over Vinny + who Krzysztof is fighting in the final and who he’s facing there and what’s going to happen!
I sure wanna know cause I can’t see it happen…
is it sad i read this theard?
what’s a theard? j/k…… no we all read it
lol. i hope thats what its called.
It’s a thread….but you were close. Happy thanksgiving!
lol. i spelt the shit wrong out of thread.
good i enjoy reading what al of you have to say. makes my day at workgo by nice. and nice at night when i am bored. kevin and john are funny. i give got the best comments. i am glad ifound this site. thank you mmamania. i am a nuthuger for mmamania.
thanks buddy, my passion for mma and mmamania are obvious, but I don’t take stuff too serious and like to mess around! it’s fun!! glad you enjoy my comments!
damn looks like a drunk worte that. whats everybody drink to night. happy thanksgiving.
Tapwater.
Krzysztof would NEVER beat Vinny… I bet my house, my wife, or whatever you guys wanted….
I’ve seen them training at Team Quest not too long ago. Vinny makes Krzysztof look like a 6year old child when they train.
My prediction: Vinny by armbar (3min and something of the very first round… if not quicker )
I think so too… 3 minutes sounds about what I was thinking too.
Great prediction IFLKING.