Roy "Big Country" Nelson and Brendan Schaub will slug it out for over a hundred grand on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
The final episode of The Ultimate Fighter Season 10 aired Wednesday night, with two quarterfinals and then the two semifinals in a two-hour episode, with Nelson defeating James McSweeney and Schaub finishing Marcus Jones to earn the chance at the six-figure UFC contract awarded the winner of the popular reality show.
In the quarterfinal fights that aired Wednesday, McSweeney submitted Matt Mitrione and Jones won via TKO against Darrill Schoonover. None of the four fights left the first round.
After the episode was complete, four more fights that will be on the TUF 10 Finale card were revealed.
Kimbo Slice will meet Houston Alexander, while Jones will take on Mitrione. The card features a match between lightweight contender Frankie Edgar of Toms River against Matt Veach, and Jon Jones versus Matt Hamill in a light-heavyweight bout.
Other fights featuring former housemates include Schoonover against McSweeney, and Justin Wren versus Jon Madsen.
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Nelson reaches finals with victory over McSweeney
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Schaub TKOs Jones, to fight Nelson in TUF 10 finals
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Jones overpowers Schoonover in quarterfinal
- McSweeney forces Mitrione to tap in quarterfinal
There were some other revelations in the final episode.
Slice was brought in to talk to UFC president Dana White, who seemingly was going to offer the YouTube sensation Mitrione's spot in the quarterfinals. But Slice refused to take the fight, claiming his arthritic knee left him at about 40 percent, and that he wanted no part of a cortisone or gel injection that could alleviate the pain.
Slice also said he was not ready to rack up another loss on his record, although the TUF fights do not count toward fighters' records.
McSweeney's childish taunting of Zak Jensen provoked the Minnesotan to engage in a physical battle in the house. McSweeney premeditated wedging shut the door to the toilet within the bathroom while the claustrophobic Jensen was inside doing his business.
When Jensen finally got out, he immediately went after McSweeney, who had not yet had his semifinal fight with Nelson. Although the spat quickly terminated, it appeared McSweeney could have been focusing more on his upcoming fight with Nelson rather than taunting Jensen.
Jensen had been nicknamed "Linderman" by Slice earlier in the season, claiming that if the cartoon character Shrek had a little brother, his name would be Linderman and he would look like Jensen. Jensen trusted McSweeney to write Linderman in marker on the side of his head, but McSweeney instead started the taunts by writing a homophic slur.
Later, Jensen colored his head and torso green like Shrek and snuck up on the surprised Slice for a good laugh.
You can hear Jensen's weekly recap on Rear Naked Choke Radio live 10:30 a.m. EST on Thursday, or anytime thereafter.
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