The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale Weigh-In Video
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Jun 19, 2009 at 9:29 am ET23 Comments
Weigh-ins for The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale take place today, Friday June 19, at 7pm ET at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas.
The Spike-televised event is headlined by a showdown between lightweight contenders Clay Guida and Diego Sanchez and also features Nate Diaz vs. Joe Stevenson, as well as the TUF 9 lightweight finals between Andre Winner (UK) and Ross Pearson (UK) and the welterweight finals featuring Demarques Johnson (US) and James Wilks (UK).
For the official TUF 9 Finale weigh-in results, click here.
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Dude this TUF finale will have some good fights. I think Lytle vs Burns is going to be a battle dude. Does anyone else think this fight should be for the #1 contender spot?
#1 contender for sarcastic posts you silly!
Gar Rule haha,
Dude my bad, lytle vs burns for #1?!? yeah kind of silly
I meant to say Deigo vs Clay for the # 1 spot.
Ya it probably should be cause you dont realy have any other clear cut top contenders right now, although edgar and maynard are both on the rise. I wouldnt mind seeing Gray fight Huerta for his last fight before he goes and wins his oscars(Roger).
I don’t think that if Diego beats Guida he should get a shot… What you beat Stevenson and Guida now you’re the number one contender… While guys like Gray Maynard, Frankie Edgar, Tyson Griffin all have been busting their assess to work their way up in that division and Diego should get a shot com’on… Hell Guida is closer to a shot then Diego is hell Huerta is closer to shot imo… I hope Sanchez loses fyi and I’m not say he isn’t tough as nails but beating Stevenson and perhaps Guida doesn’t entitle you to an automatic shot F that
I completely understand where you guys are coming from and I can’t say I disagree. But if you think about the lw division, and you think of all the dudes who’ve recently had a shot @ the title, i’m not sure they all deserved a shot. Take “joe daddy”. Who did he beat to deserve a shot @ the title? Guillard? The same goes for hermes franca and bj penn. The lw division hasn’t truly had a “top contender” until now, kenflo and after that title bout we have to take a hard look and say…who’s next? For the first time, i’m just gonna go ahead and say that right now, considering the current state of the lw division, give someone a shot that would make an interesting and entertaining match cuz seriously who’s the #1 guy after this title shot? Who doesn’t want to see kenflo vs diego 2? If guida wins then i mean, give him maynard or edgar. Deigo is just a bigger name and a title match with him against either bj or kenflo would be “bigger”.
fr702
I know you dont think Diego is that deserving, but hell when has that ever mattered in the UFC. As long as the matchup is marketable you have a name and some wins behind ya, you can get a shot. Jazz made a good point about stevenson getting a shot. You say Huerta is even ahead of Sanchez?? By the time that happens it will have been over a year since the guy fought.(where as Sanchez has beat 4 guys provided he beats Guida in the same time frame that Roger has had off) The only guy I would put ahead of him is Gray, but it doestnt seem like they want to give him a shot any time soon.
Carls, I get what you’re saying… I just through Huerta in there for snitzingiggle ( he has one fight left on his contract and well he is being froze out by the UFC)…. BJ Penn v Joe Stevenson was for the vacated title they were “tops in the division then”, Sherk v Penn was for bragging rights.. I don’t think that what Diego has done in the MW division or the WW division should matter in the LW division,,, Hell atleast Penn is a former champ in the WW division so he has some cred going in… But hey if they want to give YES man the shot IF he beats Guida than so be it… I think the only test for Penn @ 155 is KenFlo anyways, if they give it to Diego well he will just get destroyed and I also believe that KenFlo will destroy Sanchez if it was (is) a title fight or not… If KenFlo beats Penn and Diego beats Guida then ya you will most likely see KenFlo v Sanchez which is unfortunate but a easy fight to hype… and yea Gray is way higher ranked then Diego at the moment
OK good. I hold you In high regards FR702 and think your one of the best posters and writers on here but that one just had me scratching my head. cheers.
i thought huerta was shooting TEKKEN THE MOVIE and thats y he hasnt gotten the last fight out of the way
Realy?
Win or lose Deigo is already trying to put his and Florian’s names in the pot for the next season of TUF coaches. I like it, but if Florian beats BJ, then not so much. I do want to see that rematch at 155.
I wonder will Diego be foaming at the mouth this time. That guy is one weird puppy..
Clay Guida looks like Tarzan but fights like Jane…He seems to just swarm you with his hair and grind and dry hump you for 3 rds..
I give diego a slight edge in the striking and bjj. Guida should just do what he does and try to wear diego out.
Chris lytle imo is gonna burn a hole through burns.
You give Sanchez a “slight” edge in the striking. Sorry but Guida has never realy done anything that impressive striking wise(besides his second round uppercut to Huerta)where as diego’s striking has looked alot sharper and faster. I think he will likely even TKO Guida. Nice comment about the tarzan thing that was funny.
Diego’s striking has gotten lot better, but he still needs to work on his footwork a bit because his strking is somewhat too predictable. He should take this fight to the ground before guida does because he’s a lot bigger and stronger than guida and can control him on the ground and if he scores a mount, we’ve all seen how brutal his gNp is.
Guida should also just stick to what made him famous and that’s take Diego down and lay on him the whole like he did Diaz. Guida has “Matt Hughes” style standup which is little to none at all. He does have some power, but Diego has better overall standup.
I honeslty don’t think either guy should try and stand because this fight could end up to be like Sanchez vs Stevenson.
Both guys are on the brink of a title shot, so they should really go for it in this fight and try to finish the other guy and really make a statement because despite their recent wins, neither guy has looked too “impressive” nor has wither guy looked to be a legit threat to the title. Ken-flo on the other hand has finished most of his fights after his title loss to Sherk. AND if Diego plans on fighting AND beating Ken-Flo again, he had better really step up his game and back up all the talk because his other TUF alumns are passing him by.
Hope to see a good fight, even if the fight goes the distance i hope that Sanchez and Guida can both go for the finish.
Well dont expect a finish from Guida anyway you shake it. its just not gonna happen, plus Diego has a solid chin to boot. Good call on it ending up like the stevenson bout. That could happen but i feel Joe has better boxing and a better chin than guida so Sanchez could finish him there. BUT we just had two showings of stand-up like that from Sanchez. And with the way Kenny beat Joe compared to the way Sanchez beat him, he has a lot to prove. So im with you marvel he needs to land some shots on the feet take him down and pound him out to realy make an impression. Cause as weve seen its not easy putting guida away.
And if he could do it, hed have a serious case for the #1 contender shot.
I have a question for the collective:
If there is in fact no real recent “top contender” for the LW title as Jazzkok suggests, is it because the talent pool is relatively high and everyone equally rocks, therefore no one man stands out and impresses, or is it because the talent pool is relatively low and everyone equally does not rock, and fails to impress? Or is it that if BJ Penn has his physical, mental, and emotional stuff together, and his opponent isn’t jacked up on performance-enhancers, he can’t be beat at 155?
Not trying to fighter-bash here or anything, I’m just curious…
i honestly feel that most of the contenders at 155 are evenly matched and they all equally rock, the only one who has “impressed” and really does stand out is Kenny Florian. Kenny Florian beat Roger Huerta,Joe Stevenson,Joe Lauzon and Din Thomas. He has cleaned out this division more than anyone else including BJ Penn because Penn has only defeated “Joe Dady”,Sean Sherk And Jens Pulver who is at his end.
But, like you pointed out, i feel that if BJ Penn keeps himself in shape and stays concentrated, i honeslty feel that he can hold the title for a very long time. Now i’m not the biggest Penn fan,but to be quite honest, he’s a complete fighter who take out anyone at 155, BUT he does tend to slack off in training and has a reputation to not have good cardio which has cost him in the past and can certainly cost him his title in the future.
jcohl,
Good question dude. Well my opinion is that right now there are way too many one dimensional wrestlers who are trying to improve their overall game. I think that’s the reason no one fighter stands out(besides florian).
Maynard,Edgar,Sherk,guida, these are all “top” lw’s @ the moment and what do they all have in common? Ding ding ding, wrestling! Other than that, what else stands out about these dudes? Maynard and edgar have decent stand up but when was the last time we saw a sub or ko from them? And these are the dudes who everyone thinks are @ the top. They all sort of cancel eachother out because they are going out there to do the same thing. UNtil we see someone who can do it all like florian and of course “the prodigy”, the lw division will stay as it is…blah.
Thats a good point about the LW div right now jazz, all the top talent are wrestlers even Griffon if you put him in there. I think Gray Maynard has the most potential right now out of all of them. The guy had two fights going into TUF and was whuppin Diaz untill he got cought. The guy went from being a complete brawler to a boxer in a year.(see fight versus Siver08 to fight with miller09) He shut down Edgar when he was undefeated then beat Rich Clementi when he was red hot and on a 6 fight win streak and the same for miller who was on a 8 fight streak. At the rate he is going you cant hide the #1 contender shot from him forever.
Diego Sanchez looks like he has some sort of muscle eating rabies or something? it is scary!IMO
I have a follow-up to the LW issue if its OK.
Is it also possible that the LW’s suffer from a similiar situation as the HW’s, in that the best all-around athletes in a given weight range, such as the HW’s and football, are engaging in other athletic pursuits, like boxing, more traditional to their size?
Maybe the break-out LW we’re all looking for, who ideally would have quality stand-up, take-downs, cardio,and submissions is boxing in some city gym or training at a South Florida tennis camp? Could the LW of tomorrow [who we need today] be running track somewhere?
From what I understand most LW’s walk-around weight is maybe 170? At 170 you have athletes pursuing track, boxing, tennis, basketball, la crosse, even hockey and on occasion baseball. That doesn’t even include swimming, diving, winter sports, extreme sports, and so on.
How the Hell can the sport of MMA get a 170 pound shortstop off of the baseball diamond, or even a 165 pound platform diver or swimmer out of the pool and into the Octagon to compete at 155?
Also, in terms of MMA, is it possible wrestlers dominate certain weight classes because statistically you’d probably find a larger number of competitive athletes at that weight class that essentailly have nowhere to go after college, save coaching? I know there are the World and Pan Am games, AAU, various submission wrestling pursuits [ADCC, NAGA], and of course the Olympics, but for most wrestlers life after college is a search to make a living while trying to deal with the still-burning desire to compete.
I’m not saying its necessarily a good or bad thing, I’m just saying it seems to me that a LOT of these guys wind up at 155, like Jazzkok points out, and not always for the betterment of the division. Maybe, just maybe if more tae kwon do, aikido, judo, and karate schools pushed MMA, particularly for their smaller athletes, the wrestler hammerlock [sorry, bad joke] on the LW division would be broken…
Man I hope Guida has been doing nothing but training strikes and TKO ! ! ! !
Guy has the heart of a champion time to get some training to back that up!
Guida by t-bag submission second round.