(Episode One, MatchUps and Teams, click on the spoiler tag)
TUF 20 Teams and First Round Matches
After an eventful promotional week for TUF 20, several sites are reporting the teams and opening round matches for the show, which will have its two hour premier Wednesday on Fox Sports 1.
Team Pettis (Green) : Alex Chambers, Felice Herrig, Carla Esparza, Joanne Calderwood, Ais Daly, Randa Markos Thomas, Jessica Penne, and Justine Kish
Team Melendez (Purple): Rose Namajunas, Heather Clark, Emily Kagan, Angela Magana, Tecia Torres, Lisa Ellis, Angela Hill, and Bec Hyatt.
After the teams were selected, they seeded the competitors and had each match have a representative from each time. The opening round matches contain two epic rematches – Penne vs. Ellis and Clark vs. Herrig. Here is the complete list:
•Rose Namajunas vs. Alex Chambers
•‘Heather Clark vs. Felice Herrig
•Joanne Calderwood vs. Emily Peters Kagan
•Aisling Daly vs. Angela Magana
•Tecia Torres vs. Randa Markos Thomas
•Jessica Penne vs. Lisa Ellis
•Carla Esparza vs. Angela Hill
•Justine Kish vs. Bec Hyatt
All the first round fights will air on Wednesday.
Further spoilers from footage I've seen sees...
-Tecia Torres being mounted by her opponent
-Carla Ezparza being knocked down
-Joanne Calderwood being viciously dumped on her head
-Aisling Daly passing out trying to make weight, and ambulances being called in
Yeah, ironic how those cheap grabs sometimes work. And finding out that Carla wrestled at Menlo College just helped win me over to her. I already thought highly of her though.
I haven't seen any viewer numbers for this season. Is it doing that badly? I have a hard time watching the nonsense on every tuf which is worse this season. Just skip to fights.
They probably didn't make sense but unfortunately those weren't matches that were made by the coaches. They were made by the match makers. As we know matchmakers aren't always accurate.
Yeah, I was thinking that they had to black out TUF for something. It is Fox Sports 1 and they have to share the airtime. Either way I'd like to see how alienated Clark really is.
The good news is you can catch up on TUF Latin America which is proving to be a decent season (even though it's very hard to tell half of the Mexican team apart)
Maybe that's the key to their success considering they have a 75% success rate. Won three out of four matches in both weight classes. I didn't know that Mexican MMA was that good.
In all honesty I can understand why the season TUFs are being done. It is the UFC's way of testing the waters in certain markets. Obviously TUF China was a failure but TUF Latin America is so far a success.
TUF discussion seems to be totally dead this season. People not watching it this time round? The fights haven't been that great but I'm looking forward to the QF match ups.
Carla vs Tecia - Carla via wrestling
Aisling vs Jessica - Aisling
Randa vs Felice - Hope Randa smashes her but I think Felice wins
Rose vs JoJo - So hyped for this matchup, really hope JoJo takes it
I hope the whole 'scrapettes' thing doesn't last like Ronda's '4 horsewomen' crap. Can't stand Angela Magana
Carla vs Tecia - Carla via wrestling
Aisling vs Jessica - Aisling
Randa vs Felice - Hope Randa smashes her but I think Felice wins
Rose vs JoJo - So hyped for this matchup, really hope JoJo takes it
I called Aisling winning the whole thing from day one, i just wish she didn't face carla in the semi's because that would be an awesome finale.
the only ones i really like are aisling, rose and jojo so that quarter final between those last two are killing me. i'd like rose to make it to the finals just so team melemdez has someone to place, however even money on those two; i'll be happy and sad no matter who wins.
i just wish bec could have fought jessica since they were ranked 8 & 9; i think it would have been a more enjoyable fight.
the main issue with this season is pettis started with 5 of the top 8 in the rankings, then acquired a 6th; the writing was on the wall. once one of his 2 non-top 8's, randa, upset her match up, it was pretty much a done deal. now were just going through the motions.
I'm enjoying the season but find myself fast forwarding through all the bullshit and just watching the fights.
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