TUF Nations Cast

Team Canada:

Chad Laprise – 7-0 – 27 years old, MMA Sun #16 LW Prospect

Sheldon Westcott – 8-1 – 29 years old, MMA Sun #12 WW Prospect

Olivier Aubin-Mercier – 4-0 – 24 years old, MMA Sun #33 LW Prospect

Kajan “Ragin” Johnson – 19-10

Elias “The Spartan” Theodorou – 8-0, MMA Sun #12 MW Prospect

Luke Harris – 10-2 – 36 years old

Nordine Taleb – 8-2 – 32 years old

Team Australia:

Jake “The Celtic Kid” Matthews – 3-0, MMA Sun #24 WW Prospect

Richard “Filthy Rich” Walsh – 7-1 – 25 years old

Brendan “War Machine” O’Reilly – 5-0

Zein Saliba – 4-0

Tyler “Young Gun” Manawaroa – 10-0 – 19 years old, MMA Sun #3 WW Prospect

Daniel Kelly – 5-0 – 36 years old

Priscus “The Tassie Devil” Fogagnolo – 7-1,  MMA Sun #13 LHW Prospect

Vik “The Spartan” Grujic – 6-2

http://mmasun.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/meet-the-cast-of-tuf-nations-canada-vs-australia/

So...yeah, this is a great debate and all but can someone talk to me about TUF Nations

@Nojuice all you need to know is OAM is ****** awesome and he's gonna win !

I don't need advice haha, I just wanna talk about it, I follow a lot of these guys.

Theodorou or Taleb are probably the 2 best on Canadas side IMO, I like Westcott and Johnson though too. Austrailias team is pretty beast though. I got Tyler Manawaroa winning the whole thing, hes got so much ******* potential, can't wait to see him fight on the show.

^^ wrong  OAM IS GOAT and the best for canada . Theodorou is solid too .

* Edited at 12.03.2013, 8:27 PM ET *

I just hope Taleb wins. Dude's a beast. Haven't seen much of Aubin-Mercier.. but apparently he is good.

@tacos just tried finding some of his pro fights but looks they have been removed from youtube . but ive been watching him fight since his amateur days . been impressed since the first time i seen him fight he has amazing Judo been doing it since he was like 4 . and his stand up is really improving can't wait to see what he can do . ive been saying it for awhile OAM and Xavier Alaoui are quebec's future stars of MMA

I thought Taleb beat Zaromskis.

So many people thought canada was gonna crush the aussie team because they didnt think australia had enough talent to beat a potentially very deep canadian team. But looking at both teams, they have some excellent talent. There was 2-3 canadians i was hoping to see on the team though. The aussie team basically got everyone i wanted to see.

Team Canada is awesome, I'm really looking forward to this season! I don't know much about Team Australia (I still think it would have been 100x more exciting to have a full Canadian season for us in Canada...).

I'm rooting for Olivier Aubin-Mercier, I'm not sure if he's ready for such a big stage yet. I remember, not so long ago, one of his trainers saying he didn't have enough experience to fight top level guys.
Sparring with GSP certainly helps, but he never faced anybody really good so far. He crushed everybody but I don't think he's ever been hit clean in a pro fight 

"I still think it would have been 100x more exciting to have a full Canadian season for us in Canada"

 

I know I was really disapointed when they annouced it would be Canada vs. Australia and that it wouldn't be LW's on the show (Even though now it seems that alot of guys are fight up) but I've come to terms with it. I'm thinking  Aubin-Mercier or Laprise wins the "WW" side of things and we sweep the Aussies.

Does anyone know where they will be playing this and when it's starting?

Jan 15th is when it will start. I don't know if you will get to see it on TV if you don't live in Canada or Austrialia but in Canada it will be on Sportsnet 360.

This TUF is going to be on FS1 in the US.

it looks like tuf 19 is going to start pretty much right after tuf nations is done too.

Do you think Dana will be on the show? Or Tom Wright replace him..?

Where is it being filmed? If it is in Canada, I would bet that he is on it. Since it is going to be on FS1, he will most likely be on atleast a few episodes.

It's being filmed in Montreal right now... It's almost over

Do canucks and aussies have any historic rivalry?

Not at all! Canada couldn't care less about Australia and I'm sure it's the exact same thing the opposite way haha.
That's why it seems very strange to me that they picked these 2 countries..

Oh, weird. I'm looking forward to upcoming seasons like Team South Africa vs Team South Korea: Battle of the Souths then.