Very rarely do Ultimate Fighter winners go from competing on the reality TV competition to facing off with Top 25 talent in their respective weight class.More often than naught, the athletes emerging from the long-running program hold up the glass-block trophy and then find themselves with a favorable matchup in their first couple appearances inside the Octagon.You’d have to go back to Roy Nelson’s first post-TUF appearance to find a member of the Ultimate Fighter fraternity that stepped into the cage with an established opponent, and that was against a still-developing Stefan Struve. Addition … Read the Full Article Here
Kelvin Gastelum: On The Fast Track
Very rarely do Ultimate Fighter winners go from competing on the reality TV competition to facing off with Top 25 talent in their respective weight class.More often than naught, the athletes emerging from the long-running program hold up the glass-block trophy and then find themselves with a favorable matchup in their first couple appearances inside the Octagon.You’d have to go back to Roy Nelson’s first post-TUF appearance to find a member of the Ultimate Fighter fraternity that stepped into the cage with an established opponent, and that was against a still-developing Stefan Struve. Addition … Read the Full Article Here