Coming on April 1st, 2009 will be the The Ultimate Fighter Season 9 Reality TV Show. This is great news for all the fight fans out there. The TUF Season 9 will have a 32 member cast consisting of both lightweight and welterweights. This season will add the twist of nationalism by having a team of USA fighters go against a team of UK fighters. This season’s coaches will be Dan “Hollywood” Henderson for team USA and Michael “The Count” Bisping for team UK.
Here is the full line up of contestants:
Welterweight:
Team USA:
Ryan Biglar (2-1)
Ray Elbe (20-11)
Christian Fulgium (6-2-1)
DaMarques Johnson (13-6)
Kevin Knabjian (10-3-1)
Mark Miller (10-4)
Jason Pierce (9-0)
Kiel Reid (8-1)
Team UK:
Dean Amarasinghe (4-1)
James Bateman (2-1)
David Faulkner (2-1)
Tommy Maguire (5-2)
Che Mills (7-2)
Nicholas Osipczak (3-0)
Alex Reid (10-9-1)
James Wilks (5-2)
Lightweight:
Team US:
Paul Bird (4-1)
Santino DeFranco (13-4)
Jason Dent (19-9)
Cameron Dollar (4-1)
Tom Hayden (4-0)
Waylon Lowe (5-2)
Josh Souder (7-2)
Richie Whitson (4-0)
Team UK:
James Bryan (3-1)
Dan James (3-0)
Gary Kelly (2-1)
Jeff Lawson (13-2)
Ross Pearson (9-3)
Martin Stapleton (5-1)
A.J. Wenn (7-2)
Andre Winner (9-2-1)
