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TUF 11 Finale Fighter Salaries

Filed under: UFCCourt McGee won the six-figure contract Saturday at The Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale, but it was a season one member of the series who scored the highest purse of the evening.

Middleweight Chris Leben earned $70,000 for his TKO win over …

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Court McGee won the six-figure contract Saturday at The Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale, but it was a season one member of the series who scored the highest purse of the evening.

Middleweight Chris Leben earned $70,000 for his TKO win over Aaron Simpson, according to the official salaries released Monday by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Additionally, Leben earned another $25,000 for Knockout of the Night, combining his disclosed earnings to $95,000.

Check out the rest of the salaries below.

Falling Action: Best and Worst of WEC 49, TUF 11 Finale

Filed under: UFC, WECWhat a weekend. Two Zuffa events in two days, and sandwiched in between two Strikeforce cards on Showtime. It’s almost enough to make even the most hardcore fan take a night off to watch some “Top Chef” and wait for the testosteron…

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What a weekend. Two Zuffa events in two days, and sandwiched in between two Strikeforce cards on Showtime. It’s almost enough to make even the most hardcore fan take a night off to watch some “Top Chef” and wait for the testosterone levels to drop back to normal. Almost.

Rather than try to separate Saturday night’s action from Sunday’s – personally, the weekend’s all one bloody blur for me – let’s combine the two for a giant look at the good, the bad, and the staph-infected after the TUF 11 Finale and WEC 49.

The Potato Index: TUF 11 Finale + WEC 49

(Keith "Necro Reaper" Jardine, after his barbed-wire and fluorescent-light-tube death-match against Matt "Da Def Syco" Hamill. / Photo courtesy of the TUF 11 Finale gallery on MMAFighting.com)
Because you pansies get all red-faced…

Keith Jardine TUF 11 Finale UFC Matt Hamill cuts blood
(Keith "Necro Reaper" Jardine, after his barbed-wire and fluorescent-light-tube death-match against Matt "Da Def Syco" Hamill. / Photo courtesy of the TUF 11 Finale gallery on MMAFighting.com)

Because you pansies get all red-faced when the Potato Index skips an event, we’ve brought back the beloved arbitrary numerical ranking system for a special two-fer installment. As for the recent complaints that the Potato Index’s scores have gotten less arbitrary, we have passed the feedback onto the Index and hope that the scores are now sufficiently chaotic while still maintaining their accuracy and integrity…

Court McGee +518
Going from pantsless meth addict to Ultimate Fighter winner? Yeah, we’d call that an upgrade. But Court McGee is more than just an inspirational story. With his endless heart and skill with a choke-hold, he’s a legitimately valuable acquisition for the UFC. If they bring him along slowly, he could become a factor in the middleweight division someday.

Kris McCray -33.333 [repeating]
Sometimes, tough ain’t enough. McCray may be a little too green to compete at the UFC level, but as a season runner-up, he deserves one more fight — ideally, against one of the TUF guys that scored victories on Saturday, like Chris Camozzi or Rich Attonito.

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TUF 11 Finale Live Blog: Court McGee vs. Kris McCray Updates

Filed under: UFCLAS VEGAS — This is the TUF 11 live blog for Court McGee vs. Kris McCray, the main event of tonight’s live finale from the Palms Casino Resort.

McGee and McCray will face off in the middleweight finals for a six-figure UFC contract.

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LAS VEGAS — This is the TUF 11 live blog for Court McGee vs. Kris McCray, the main event of tonight’s live finale from the Palms Casino Resort.

McGee and McCray will face off in the middleweight finals for a six-figure UFC contract.

The live blog is below.

Court McGee Submits Kris McCray, Wins The Ultimate Fighter

Filed under: UFC, NewsCourt McGee is the Season 11 winner of The Ultimate Fighter.

McGee submitted Kris McCray in the second round of their bout at Saturday night’s Ultimate Fighter Finale, winning the Ultimate Fighter title and the UFC contract that …

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Court McGeeCourt McGee is the Season 11 winner of The Ultimate Fighter.

McGee submitted Kris McCray in the second round of their bout at Saturday night’s Ultimate Fighter Finale, winning the Ultimate Fighter title and the UFC contract that goes with it, a contract that in reality goes not only to the winner but also to several other fighters on each season of the UFC’s popular reality show.

‘TUF 11’ Finale Aftermath: All the Right People Win Bonuses; Hamill Overcomes Staph, Broken Hand, Eye-Poke to Beat Jardine

("The best part is, stick this baby in the freezer and it’ll keep your drinks cold on a hot summer day." PicProps: UFC.com)
Matt Hamill fought and defeated Keith Jardine on Saturday night with a staph infection he didn’t know he had as …


("The best part is, stick this baby in the freezer and it’ll keep your drinks cold on a hot summer day." PicProps: UFC.com)

Matt Hamill fought and defeated Keith Jardine on Saturday night with a staph infection he didn’t know he had as well as a broken hand suffered early in the fight round and blurred vision from getting poked in the eye during the second, according to statements made at the "TUF 11" Finale post-fight press conference. That makes it a bit more noteworthy that their three-round battle rightfully claimed “Fight of the Night” honors.

“I thought I was going to be blind and deaf. Enough handicaps,” Hamill joked at the press conference about getting a thumb in the eye that caused Jardine to lose a point in the second stanza. Any laughter caused by that comment could probably best be described as “uneasy.”

Other post-fight bonuses – each amounting to $25,000 – went to Chris Leben for his come-from-behind knockout of Aaron Simpson and Court McGee for choking out Kris McCray in the “TUF” championship.  As for the infection – which caused the nasty-looking  lesion on his back you may have noticed during the broadcast – Hamill said he planned to get started with some antibiotics ASAP. Yeah, you might want to get on that. After the jump, a picture of Hamill’s foulness.

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