Topic: The Ultimate Fighter (TUF)
TUF 26 Cast Revealed. Roxanne and Honchak top the list
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08.06.2017 | 12:05 PM ET
https://www.mmafighting.com/2017/8/6/16103086/barb-honchak-roxanne-modafferi-among-tuf-26-cast-members-revealed
This cast sucks, hardly any ranked 125ers, it should be called the Honchak and Roxanne season. For a belt they have cans with 2-1 and 3-2 records, not one prospect, but lots of Invicta fails. Other talent would be Deanna Bennett, Sajira Eubanks and Lauren Murphy but not much else.
Also, hardly any small 135ers or big 115ers picked that are already on the UFC roster. Instead of picking Jojo or Macedo for example they pick a girl who got beat by Macedo, or instead of getting Andrea Lee they pick a girl who got destroyed by Lee. Pointless season without top talent for an inaugural belt.
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08.06.2017 | 7:04 PM ET
"When Conor fought Cowboy, he looked like a lion. When he fights stronger opponents, he looks like a scared chicken." - Khabib
08.06.2017 | 7:37 PM ET
Bellator got the jump on signing several top women's flyweight talent. TUF 26 could've been great with fighters like Ilima-Lei Macfarlane & Emily Ducote, while Valerie Letourneau, Katie Collins and Rebecca Ruth could've been nice supplements to the roster. Bellator also scooped up several legitimate or marketable foreign prospects like Na Liang, Alejandra Lara, & Juliana Velasquez. That's not even mentioning the other women's flyweights signed by Bellator primarily due to their marketbility.
08.06.2017 | 7:59 PM ET
I'll be doing the old skip to the fight thing I always do on TUF but i'll still watch the fights.Hopefully Roxanne pulls it off that would be a great comeback story and she really has improved a ton.
08.06.2017 | 9:45 PM ET
(pro record) (combine record of opponents they beat)
Ariel Beck (4-4) (8-8)
DeAnna Bennett (8-3) (41-19-2)
Shana Dobson (2-1) (0-0)
Sijara Eubanks (2-2) (0-0)
Melinda Fabian (4-3-1) (0-3)
Karine Gevorgyan (3-2) (2-0)
Barb Honchak (10-2) (77-26-2)
Christina Marks (8-8) (11-6)
Roxanne Modafferi (21-13) (136-47)
Nicco Montano (3-2) (3-2)
Lauren Murphy (9-3) (25-16)
Rachel Ostovich-Berdon (3-3) (6-3)
Gillian Robertson (3-2) (6-5)
Maia Stevenson (6-4) (0-13)
Montana Stewart (7-4) (9-14)
Emily Whitmire (2-1) (2-7)
So most the girls have trash records against weak competition the favorite is clearlt Honchack followed by Modaferri. Then of course Murphy and Bennett would be the dark horses with the rest being astronomical long shots. I'm surprised they didn't try to get Eye in there.
"It does not make sense that humans deliberately malfunction. - Upgrade"
08.06.2017 | 10:28 PM ET
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. -Khalil Gibran "
08.07.2017 | 2:14 AM ET
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08.07.2017 | 2:30 AM ET
"It does not make sense that humans deliberately malfunction. - Upgrade"
08.07.2017 | 2:30 AM ET
And of course there's Anastasia Yankova, who even though gets a lot of slack for basically always fighting at 130 yet calling herself a flyweight, but she's super marketable and is pretty skilled too.
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"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
08.07.2017 | 7:54 AM ET
I would mention Namajunas was only 2-1 (4-1) when she entered TUF20.
I would have thought that the current UFC fighters who have campaigned for the flyweight division would have shown more support.
Under or over 5.5? The number of fighters from TUF26 that get signed by UFC after the show?
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08.07.2017 | 12:42 PM ET
"The only thing predictable about MMA is that it is unpredictable."
08.07.2017 | 1:30 PM ET
Think Ostovich has that one in the bag.
"When Conor fought Cowboy, he looked like a lion. When he fights stronger opponents, he looks like a scared chicken." - Khabib
08.07.2017 | 3:54 PM ET
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08.07.2017 | 6:25 PM ET
08.08.2017 | 9:54 AM ET
"The only thing predictable about MMA is that it is unpredictable."
08.08.2017 | 11:33 AM ET
Just depends on how Barb handles the layoff, and Murphy making the consistent cut for the show. And Bennett had showed some signs of weight cutting issues so 125 my benefit her. I'd consider her somewhat of a darkhorse underdog, if you think she fits that criteria.
08.08.2017 | 3:09 PM ET
08.08.2017 | 4:51 PM ET
"His legacy is money. My legacy is smesh." -Khabib
08.08.2017 | 4:58 PM ET
Most of the fighters I see people mentioning that should have been put on the show fall under the following:
1. Didn't want to be on the show. Either they're already in the UFC and will move up/down later, or they're outside the UFC, and expressed interest in getting signed outside the show.
2. Couldn't make it to the tryouts.
3. Other (language barrier, already signed elsewhere, etc.
Most are unknowns, but the name fighters on the cast are name fighters for a reason. I'll at least watch the show before dismissing them all, and I'd hardly call this the UFC dropping the ball, as most fighters who have shown interest are already signed with them.
"I wake up in the morning, and I piss excellence" Ricky Bobby
08.08.2017 | 5:01 PM ET
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"I wake up in the morning, and I piss excellence" Ricky Bobby