List of Contestants Expected to be on The Ultimate Fighter Season 10

Published on: 14th June, 2009

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The upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter will mark it’s tenth season and will opposing coaches Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson and ‘Sugar’ Rashad Evans who are former UFC Light Heavyweight champions and also bitter rivals who will settle the score at the last UFC event of the year in late December.

But, for right now our friends Rich Nuttz over at FightBomb.com have compiled the list of the expected 16 Heavyweight contestants to be apart of TUF 10 and as we all know former Youtube sensation and EliteXC poster boy Kimbo Slice was announced as one of the big surprise contestants on the show and now others have made the list in a who’s who of former NFL players and many other eye openers around the MMA world as well.

The Ultimate Fighter season 10 will premiere on September 16 following UFC Fight Night 19 from the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Spike.

Here is the list of contestants to be apart of The Ultimate Fighter season 10 titled “The Heavyweights”:

Kevin Ferguson aka Kimbo Slice
3-1 MMA Record
6′2″ and 35 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (235lbs)
MIAMI, FLORIDA via NASSAU, BAHAMAS
PARTICIPATION CONFIRMED BY DANA WHITE via Yahoo
Street fight YouTube Legend.
“The King of Web Brawlers” – Rolling Stone
“I’m coming in to prove myself.. feed my family”
Bodyguard for pornography company “RealityKings”
Charged in 2002 for carrying a concealed weapon
Acting Debut on Nickelodeon’s show “Drake & Josh”
Not participant at TUF 10 tryouts but was given open invitation by Dana White.

Roy Nelson
13-4 MMA Record
6′0″ and 32 Years Old
HEAVYWEIGHT (265lbs)
LAS VEGAS, CALIFORNIA
MMAMADNESS SAYS HE IS 100% CONFIRMED
Trains with the Lion’s Den.
Former IFL and Last IFL Heavyweight Champion
Two fight losing streak to Jeff Monson and Andrei Arlovski
Nicknamed “Big Country”

Darrill Schoonover
9-0 MMA Record.
12-0 Amateur Record.
1-0 Pro Boxing Record.
6′2″ and 24 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (220lbs)
COPPERAS COVE, TEXAS
First Confirmed Here At Fightbomb
Former US Army Serviceman, ranked 3rd in the US Army for combatives.
Trains at Fighters Forge Combat Sports
Former XFC LHW Champ
Former Freestyle Cagefighting HW Champ
Former TAMMA LHW MMA Champ
Fort Hood Combatives HW Champ

Justin Wren
10-1 MMA Record.
6′3″ and 21 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (265lbs)
ARLINGTON, TEXAS
First Confirmed Here At Fightbomb
Confirmed TUF 10 participation via Facebook
http://www.myspace.com/studheavyweight
Nicknamed “The Viking” and trains with Travis Lutter in Fort Worth
2x Highschool National Champ in Greco Roman
Wrestled for the University of Iowa State. 5x All-American
Lived in Olympic Training Center in Arlington.

Brendan Schaub
4-0 Perfect MMA Record.
6′6″ and 26 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (240lbs)
HIGHLANDS RANCH, COLORADO
Said publicly he was offered special spot on TUF 10.
There was a YouTube video but it has been taken down.
First Confirmed Here At Fightbomb
Trains at Greg Jackson’s Camp, T’sKO Gym.
2008 Colorado Golden Gloves Boxing HW Champ.
2008 Colorado BJJ Absolute Advanced Grand Champ.
Main training partner is Shane Carwin among others.
Played Fullback for the Colorado Buffalos
Briefly with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and AFL’s Utah Blaze.

Marcus Jones
4-2 MMA Record.
6′6″ and 35 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (262lbs)
TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA
First Confirmed Here At Fightbomb
Trains with Rob Kahn at Gracie Tampa.
Former NFL Defensive End for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Played 6 season with 24 sacks and 124 tackles.
Drafted 1st Round, 22 Overall in 1996
All-American Defensive Tackle at North Carolina.
“This is unreal,” Jones said at TUF 10 Tryouts.
“One day, I will tell my grandkids that I tried out for the UFC and I was a part of the greatest sport on the planet,” Jones said.

Wes Sims
20-11 MMA Record
6′10″ and 29 Years Old
HEAVYWEIGHT (260lbs)
LANCASTER, OHIO
MMAMADNESS SAYS HE IS 100% CONFIRMED
Trains with Team Hammer House
Nicknamed ‘The Project’ and ‘The Whole Show’
Famous for DQ by stomping Frank Mir’s head at UFC 43.

Abe Wagner
6-1 MMA Record
0-2 Amateur Record
6′4″ and 29 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (260lbs)
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
First Confirmed Here At Fightbomb
VFC Heavyweight Champion
http://www.myspace.com/39001113
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyrany of evil men”
Nicknamed “The Hurricane”
Idolizes Cro Cop.

Zak Jensen
7-3 MMA Record
6′5″ and 26 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (265lbs)
HOPKINS/CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA
First Confirmed Here At Fightbomb
Brutaal Heavyweight Champion
Trains with Gorilla Combat
Wrestled at Augsburg College
Pulled out of a fight vs Justin Wren on April 6
“Didn’t want to miss TUF tryouts or risk injury”

Matt Mitrione
0-0 MMA Record.
6′3″ and 30 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (265lbs)
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
First Confirmed by Fightbomb
Trains with Jake O’Brien & Nicknamed “Meathead” Cuts weight down from 300lbs.
http://twitter.com/whatsyoureden
http://www.fanfuego.com/users/18353/profile.php
DT Played football for the Vikings, 49ers and Giants/’01 All-Big Ten selection in for Purdue
“I saw today that The Ultimate Fighter is having a heavyweight class this season. Seattle here I come!” – Mitrione (March 13th) on Twitter
“Heading to the gym now. Another day of whooping Jake O’brien….:-)” – Mitrione (March 4th) on Twitter.

Wes Shivers
0-1 Pro MMA Record
6-0 Amateur MMA Record
6′7″ and 32 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (265lbs)
BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI
*Late Replacement of the 16 Heavyweights as Rex Richards lost spot
First Confirmed by MMAJunkie
Trains with Team Hammer Hill
Only pro fight was at superheavyweight.
Lineman at Mississippi State University
Drafted by Tennessee Titans in 2000. Played for Atlanta Falcons.

Mike Wessel
6-1 MMA Record
0-1 in the UFC
6′0″ and ? Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (250lbs)
LITTLEROCK, ARKANSAS
First Confirmed by Fightbomb
Offered trip to Vegas for Final Cuts
Trains out of Westside MMA
Trains with Roli Delgado and Matt Hamilton
Nicknamed “The Juggernaut”
Only loss was in the UFC to Antoni Hardonk via TKO
Former strength and conditioning coah of Univ of Arkansas
Former Professional Football Player.

Scott Junk
6-2 MMA Record.
6′1″ and 30 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (265lbs)
HILO, HAWAII
First Confirmed by Fightbomb
Nicknamed “Punk Haole”
http://www.scottjunk.com/
Former MFC Heavyweight Champion – stripped of crown when
the promotion replaced the HW division with Featherweights.
Former UFC fighter that may be given a second chance.
Only losses are to Christian Wellisch and Ricco Rodriguez.

Jim York
10-2 MMA Record
6′1″ and 33 Years Old
HEAVYWEIGHT (265lbs)
NEW ZEALAND
First Confirmed by Fightbomb
Not at Tryouts, Given Option of TUF10
Trains at Five Rings Dogo Gym
Has to Cut weight to make 265.
Nickname is “Big”
Wins over James Thompson and Brad Morris.

Jon Madsen
2-0 MMA Record
First Confirmed by Fightbomb
HEAVYWEIGHT (240lbs)
SOUTH DAKOTA, USA

Trains with Matt Hughes’ H.I.T Squad
Collegiate Wrestler.

Tom Blackledge
8-6 MMA Record
6′3″ and 27 Years Old.
HEAVYWEIGHT (231lbs)
(WIGAN) MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
Trains at Wolfslair Academy.

It is also being reported that The Ultimate Fighter season 10 finale will air live on Spike on December 5 from Las Vegas, Nevada.

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