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Just want to hit a few points before The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 begins in a few hours.
Undercard results will begin to flow before the 9 p.m. telecast on Spike television tonight — sometime between 6 and 7 p.m.
We’ll have those right here as they happen.
Here’s some more stuff in case you missed it:
Live blogging [...]

UFCmania and special contributor Jesse Holland are back again to forecast the UFC future after taking off the last two events.
Aren’t you so happy?
We’ve put together some thoughts on tonight’s The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 Finale main card action, which begins at 9 p.m. and will air on Spike television.
There are some nice match ups, [...]

 
The crop of fighters for the UFC Ultimate Finale 5 all weighed-in today without incident with the exception of Brandon Melendez, who at 157 lbs. failed to make weight according to UFC.com.
In the interest of fighter safety, NSAC doctors would not permit Melendez to try and lose the extra pound needed to make weight, instead opting to let the match continue [...]

It’s been almost three months since episode one of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 debuted on Spike television.
The season — and nearly five years of animosity between coaches BJ Penn and Jens Pulver — culminates tonight with the TUF 5 Finale from The Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The televised portion of the card has [...]

On Saturday June 23, Nate Diaz will have the biggest fight of his career when he faces Manny Gamburyan at The Ultimate Fighter Finale 5.
Only he’ll have to do it without any help or guidance from his older brother and UFC veteran Nick Diaz, according to GracieFighter.com.
As UFCmania reported here back in March, Nick [...]

With the last episode of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 in the books — and Nate Diaz and Manny Gamburyan in the finals — UFC.com today revealed the final fight card for the June 23 event.
And the new lightweight match ups are solid for the most part.
Here’s a look:

Brandon Melendez vs. Joe Lauzon
Rob Emerson vs. [...]

“After one of my fights, Karo gave me a hard time, too. He came over and yelled across the mat something to the extent of, ‘Hey, nice fight,’ and I just said, ‘Thanks.’ He starts saying, ‘Oh, is that all you have to say to me? ‘Thanks?’ Speak up and say a little more next [...]

By Jesse Holland
Episode 11
As Bruce Buffer would say: “It’s time!”
Season five of The Ultimate Fighter is in the books and episodes 11 & 12 answered a lot of questions (and broke a lot of hearts).
We start off in the locker room of Team Pulver following last week’s beatdown of Matt Wiman at the hands of [...]

By Jesse Holland
The two remaining quarterfinal matches are set to go and Pulver teammates Nate and Corey face-off followed by Manny and Wiman.
During the opening promo I couldn’t help but notice Nate and Wiman punching themselves in the face to get psyched up for their fights and I was convinced that I had finally solved [...]