Mike Chiesa pulls out of UFC on FOX 5 bout with Marcus LeVesseur due to illness
TUF Live winner Mike Chiesa has pulled out of his UFC on FOX 5 bout with Marcus LeVesseur due to illness according to UFC officials.
TUF Live winner Mike Chiesa has pulled out of his UFC on FOX 5 bout with Marcus LeVesseur due to illness according to UFC officials.
The UFC on FOX 5 event adds three more bouts to the card that will take place on December 8th in Seattle, Washington. The event will be headlined by the UFC lightweight title fight between Ben Henderson and Nate Diaz.
The fifteenth season of The Ultimate Fighter is in the books and the winning coach, Urijah Faber, shares his thoughts on Mike Chiesa’s victory, how it feels to be done with Dominick Cruz, at least for now, and how he feels about fighting Renan Barao at UFC 148 on July 7.
Martin Kampmann earned an event high $84,000 for his second round knockout of fellow welterweight Jake Ellenberger Friday night in The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale headliner at The Pearl at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Ellenberger took hom $42,000 for his efforts.
The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale takes place this evening at The Pearl inside Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas and featured Team Faber’s Mike Chiesa and Al Iaquinta battling for a six-figure UFC contract. ProMMAnow.com is on the scene and will provide live fight results and play-by-play commentary of all the action.
The Ultimate Fighter Live finalist Al Iaquinta spoke with ProMMAnow.com and other media at Wednesday’s TUF Live Finale open workouts in Las Vegas.
ProMMAnow.com is on the scene at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for today’s fighter weigh-ins for The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale (TUF Live Finale). Headlining the TUF Live Finale is a welterweight contenders match-up between Martin Kampmann and Jake Ellenberger. TUF Live tournament finalists Mike Chiesa and Al Iaquinta will co-headline.
The fighter weigh-ins for The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale take place this evening at The Pearl inside the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, the same location that will host Friday’s fight card featuring UFC welterweight contenders Martin Kampmann vs. Jake Ellenberger in the main event. The live stream will begin at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT and the on-demand video replay will be made available shortly afterward.
The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale will be taking place tomorrow night at the Palms Casino Resort venue in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event will be headlined by two of the best welterweights in the world when Jake Ellenberger squares off against Martin Kampmann in what is scheduled to be a five round main event. The winner of this bout would be a likely candidate to face current UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit in the event that Georges St. Pierre doesn’t return from his knee injury as scheduled.
ProMMAnow.com reporter Joe Gugelman caught up with UFC bantamweight champion and coach on this season’s The Ultimate Fighter Live, Dominick Cruz (19-1), during a special TUF luncheon last week.