This weekend is the finale for the ninth season of The Ultimate Fighter. Like the last half dozen season of this show, I have not watched this season. On a side note, I will for sure be watching the tenth season when it airs later this year. Kimbo and Wes Sims in the same house will provide the drama, and there are a few legit good fighters on the upcoming season such as Roy Nelson, Jim York, Darrill Schoonover, as well as a few young prospects who could be very solid.
As soon as the fighters were announced, I said that Andrew Winner would be in the Lightweight final. Santino Defranco was my other pick for the final and it is a shame that they ended up fighting each others in the quarter-finals instead of later in the tournament. The welterweight tournament was more open and I was not sure really who was going to make the finals. DaMarques Johnson has obviously benefited greatly from training under Jeremy Horn as he has improved ten fold since he first started in mma. I don't see him being a world champ or anything, but if he keeps developing at the pace he has been, he could be decent.
What most people are excited about for the finale is the two other televised fights. Diego Sanchez and Clay Guida could be a very good fight. Sanchez obviously is a top 15 guy and Guida is very rarely in a boring fight. This will be Sanchez's second fight at 155 and is probably being used as a test to see where he stands in the lightweight division. If he gets by Guida, and I think he will, I would love to see him fight Frankie Edgar next. The other fight is Nate Diaz vs Joe Stevenson which is a really close fight to call. Stevenson is looking to avoid dropping his third straight, but he will be in tough against Diaz. Stevenson I think has reached his limit as a fighter, he has been fighting for so long that he is not going to get much better over time. Diaz on the other hand is still learning the game and I think is the sexy bet in this fight. Diaz is three years younger in terms of actual age, but Stevenson has been fighting for 10 years where as Diaz has been fighting for only 5.
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