The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller
Genre	Reality, Sports
Created by	Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta, Dana White
Starring	Dana White, Michael Bisping, Jason Miller
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Spike
Original airing	September 21, 2011[1]
Chronology
Preceded by	The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos
Followed by	The Ultimate Fighter 15

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller^[2] is the fourteenth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)-produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter.

The UFC and Spike held open tryouts on March 21, 2011, in Newark, New Jersey. The casting call went out for Bantamweight and Featherweight fighters. All fighters that applied and tried out for the show must have had at least three professional fights and have been at least 21 years of age. Some of the fighters that showed up for the tryouts included UFC veterans Din Thomas & Kit Cope, WEC veterans Wagnney Fabiano & Ian McCall, and former Olympic bronze medalist Alexis Vila.^[3] Rumors had surfaced of Chael Sonnen and Michael Bisping being possible coaches, though Jason Miller offered via Twitter to replace Chael Sonnen if he is unable.^[4] Miller and Bisping were later confirmed as coaches by Dana White.^[5]

Cast

Coaches

Team Bisping Michael Bisping Brady Fink Tiki Ghosn Rob McCullough

Team Miller Jason Miller[6] Ryan Parsons[6] Danny Perez[6] Darren Morris[6] Jake Ellenberger

Fighters

• Team Bisping
  • Bantamweights: Louis Gaudinot, T.J. Dillashaw, John Albert, Josh Ferguson.
  • Featherweights: Diego Brandao, Akira Corassani, Marcus Brimage, Stephan Bass.

• Team Miller
  • Bantamweights: John Dodson, Johnny Bedford, Dustin Pague, Roland Delorme.
  • Featherweights: Dennis Bermudez, Bryan Caraway, Dustin Neace, Steven Siler.

• Fighters eliminated before entry round
  • Bantamweights: Carson Beebe, Casey Dyer, B.J. Ferguson, Tateki Matsuda, Matt Jaggers, Paul McVeigh, Brandon Merkt, Orville Smith
  • Featherweights: Josh Clopton, Karsten Lenjoint, Eric Marriott, Micah Miller, Jimmie Rivera, Jesse Newell, Brian Pearman, Bryson Wailehua-Hansen

Episodes

Episode 1: Scrappers

• Dana White welcomed the 32 fighters, consisting of 16 featherweights and 16 bantamweights, to the show at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. He introduced them to the coaches, middleweights Jason "Mayhem" Miller and Michael Bisping.
• White dismissed the fighters to pre-fight warm-ups for the elimination round.
• The preliminary fights began:

• Bantamweight bout: Josh Ferguson defeated Casey Dyer via KO (punches) at 0:14 of round 1.
• Featherweight bout: Diego Brandao defeated Jesse Newell via KO (punches) at 0:47 of round 1.
• Bantamweight bout: John Dodson defeated Brandon Merkt via TKO (punches) at 1:37 of round 1.
• Featherweight bout: Dennis Bermudez defeated Jimmie Rivera via TKO (punches) at 1:40 of round 2.
• Bantamweight bout: Roland Delorme defeated B.J. Ferguson via submission (triangle choke) at 1:56 of round 1.
• Featherweight bout: Marcus Brimage defeated Bryson Wailehua-Hansen via TKO (strikes) at 0:21 of round 2.
• Bantamweight bout: Johnny Bedford defeated Carson Beebe via submission (neck crank/guillotine choke) at 4:19 of round 1.
• Bantamweight bout: Dustin Pague defeated Tateki Matsuda via majority decision (19-19, 20-18, 20-18) after two rounds.
• Bantamweight bout: Louis Gaudinot defeated Paul McVeigh via TKO (strikes) at 4:59 of round 3.
• Featherweight bout: Bryan Caraway defeated Eric Mariott via unanimous decision (20-18, 20-18, 20-18) after two rounds.
• Featherweight bout: Dustin Neace defeated Josh Clopton via unanimous decision (20-18, 20-18, 20-18) after two rounds.
• Bantamweight bout: TJ Dillashaw defeated Matt Jaggers via TKO (strikes) at 5:00 of round 1.
• Featherweight bout: Steven Siler defeated Micah Miller via submission (guillotine choke) at 0:53 of round 3.
• Bantamweight bout: John Albert defeated Orville Smith via submission (rear naked choke) in round 1.
• Featherweight bout: Stephan Bass defeated Karsten Lenjoint via submission (triangle choke) in round 2.
• Featherweight bout: Akira Corassani defeated Brian Pearman via KO (punches) in round 1.

• White was impressed with the elimination round fights and congratulated the winning fighters on making it onto the show.^[7]

Episode 2: I Against I

• The fighters moved into the house, picked their beds and had a barbeque.
• Michael Bisping and Jason Miller selected their teams; Bisping had first pick while Miller picked the first fight.
• The first featherweight matchup was announced: Marcus Brimage vs. Bryan Caraway.
• Mayhem visited his team at the house and brought Normatec MVP Pro compression suits to help them recover faster after training.
• Mayhem pranked Bisping by taking the training tires and putting them in Team Bisping's dressing room.
• Brimage got help from Bisping and his team with cutting weight, while Caraway dealt with severe anxiety issues about the fight.
• Bryan Caraway defeated Marcus Brimage via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:55 of round 2.

Episode 3: Death Leprechauns

• Bisping got Miller back after his tire prank in the dressing room by jacking the tires on Mayhem's car.
• Tempers flared during a Team Bisping sparring session, especially between Diego Brandao and Marcus Brimage.
• The first bantamweight matchup was announced: Johnny Bedford vs. Josh Ferguson.
• Knowing he was going to be picked by Team Mayhem, Josh Ferguson dedicated a note of profanity he wrote just for Johnny Bedford.
• After Akira Corassani's pranks increased, a bitter rivalry began between him and Dustin Neace.
• Missing his friends on Bisping's team, John Dodson made up his own team with Louis Gaudinot and Josh Ferguson called the "Death Leprechauns", a team of fighters who fight naturally at flyweight.
• Team Bisping was made aware of Johnny Bedford's injured right hand by John Dodson of Team Mayhem, who was trying to help Ferguson and is a mole for Bisping's team.
• Johnny Bedford defeated Josh Ferguson via unanimous decision at 5:00 of round 2.

Episode 4: Get the F Up

• Bisping doesn't show up for the featherweight fight announcement and his team wonders where he has been.
• The featherweight matchup was announced: Dennis Bermudez vs. Stephan Bass.
• Dennis Bermudez defeated Stephan Bass via TKO (referee stoppage due to punches) in round 2.
• Stephan Bass blames Bisping for his loss due to overworking him in practice the day before.
• The bantamweight matchup was announced: Dustin Pague vs. Louis Gaudinot.
• Bisping uses insider information from John Dodson to prepare his next fighter.
• Dustin Pague defeated Louis Gaudinot via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:28 of round 2.
• Mayhem is happy that his team is now 4-0 over Bisping's team.

Episode 5: Swagger Jacker

• After the previous fight, Diego Brandao calls out Steven Siler, wanting to fight him next.
• Miller devises a plan to throw off Team Bisping by postponing the predetermined matches to one week.
• Josh Ferguson is upset that Mayhem gives Dustin Neace a cowboy hat with the letter "B" for Dustin's nickname, "Beast" on it. Thinking this was to mock the "B" on his cowboy hat, calling Dustin a "Swagger Jacker", Josh takes the hat and hides it.
• The prank rivalry between Dustin Neace and Akira Corassani turns ugly when Dustin accuses Akira of taking his cowboy hat, making Neace trash Team Bisping's room in retaliation.
• The featherweight match up was announced: Dustin Neace vs. Akira Corassani.
• During the fight announcement things heat up even more between Neace and Corassani when they get to close in their pose down, causing a scuffle on the mat with both coaching teams coming to break it up. Bisping and Miller also share some choice words with each other in the exchange.
• Mayhem confronts team snitch John Dodson, telling him his actions caused all the drama at the fight announcements. Dodson does not show any remorse towards what he has done, claiming that "Sh*t Happens".
• Akira Corassani defeated Dustin Neace via majority decision at 5:00 of round 2.
• Although referee Herb Dean didn't stop the fight, Team Miller questions the outcome when Corassani is reckoned to be tapping out while caught in Neace's heel hook in the first round.
• Bisping is relieved that his team finally has a win over Team Miller and enjoys the victory by watching Mayhem's car get towed from accidentally parking in a handicap space.

Episode 6: Thrown to the Lions

• Team Miller's coach Ryan Parsons now knows why Michael Bisping is the most hated fighter in the UFC when he confronts Bisping about his unsportsman-like behavior towards Mayhem in the cage following the last match.
• The first fight is between featherweights Steven Siler and Diego Brandao.
• Diego Brandao defeated Steven Siler via KO (punches) at 0:30 of round 1.
• After Team Miller's training session, the coaches notice Roland Delorme's right foot is swollen; thinking its a staph infection, Roland is rushed to the emergency room.
• Before the fighter announcements, Bisping makes a speech about how Team Miller should be "gracious losers" after they lose a fight.
• The bantamweight matchup is announced: John Albert vs. John Dodson.
• The last bantamweight matchup is also announced: TJ Dillashaw vs. Roland Delorme.
• TJ Dillashaw's teammates thinks he took the coward's way out by dodging the harder fight with Dodson and taking the easier fight with Delorme, having Albert fight in his place instead; he's being "thrown to the lions".
• John Dodson defeated John Albert via unanimous decision at 5:00 of round 2.
• After the last fight, Bisping continues to instigate a reaction out of Miller by insulting him about going back to his show, Bully Beatdown, whereas Mayhem replies "I know one bully." referring to Bisping.

Episode 7: Draft Dodger

• Roland Delorme's foot injury leaves him questioning his future fighting on the show.
• Former Brazilian muay thai champion Rafael Cordeiro of Chute Boxe Academy guest coaches during Team Miller's training session.
• UFC legend Tito Ortiz makes a surprise appearance to guest coach Team Bisping teaching them the art of ground and pound while Marcus Brimage gets star-struck.
• TJ Dillashaw who is now called the "Draft Dodger" by his teammates, gets taught a lesson from Akira Corassani and Diego Brandao when they give him a hard time in training.
• After taking hard shots from Akira in his sparring session, TJ takes out his frustration on innocent Marcus Brimage which escalates into an arguing match.
• The doctor clears Roland of his foot infection to fight in his upcoming match.
• Mayhem decided to pull a prank on Team Bisping coach Tiki Ghosn for getting his car towed by surrounding his truck with concrete highway barricades in his parking space so he couldn't get out.
• TJ Dillashaw defeated Roland Delorme via submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:43 of round 2.
• After the preliminary fights, Mayhem has five fighters moving on and Bisping has three.
• Dana White announces the semifinal matchups: Bantamweight fights: TJ Dillashaw vs. Dustin Pague and John Dodson vs. Johnny Bedford. Featherweight fights: Akira Corassani vs. Dennis Bermudez and Diego Brandao vs. Bryan Caraway.

Episode 8: Don't Do This at Home, Kids

• Louis Gaudinot breaks down the separation going on in the house breaking it down into three groups: Louis, Dodson, Ferguson, Diego, Marcus, and Akira all hang out with each other; then there's the "Bible Study Group" which is Bedford, Dennis, and Dustin who stay to themselves; and lastly is "The Casino" made up of T.J., Neace, Prince (Albert), Caraway, and Bass who all play cards together every night.
• Akira Corassani is sick of Bryan Caraway always doing his hair in the morning so he decided to take an electric razor and shave a chunk of his hair off while he was sleeping which escalated into Team Miller having to barricade their doors at nighttime.
• Bisping and Tiki play a prank against Team Miller by pulling off what they think is the best prank of the season; when they spray them with fire extinguishers in their locker room while a live marachi band plays as they're trying to escape the fumes.
• After he gets Marcus Brimage's sweaty jock strap to the face, Bisping gets his team back for the recent pranks on him by cornering them at the house and spraying them all with silly string.
• Afghan Dutch Kickboxing champion Siyar Bahadurzada who trains with the Golden Glory team in Holland guest coaches during Team Miller's training session and gets Dennis Bermudez ready for his fight simulating Akira's stand-up style.
• Before their featherweight semifinal match, Akira tests Dennis' patience by drawing a picture of him as an owl mocking his unintelligent "quotes of the day" and then singing a song about how he going to be victorious over Dennis in what he calls a "slaughter".
• Dennis Bermudez defeated Akira Corassani via submission (guillotine choke) at 3:12 of round 1.
• Akira doesn't take his loss well disbelieving it while Dennis celebrates moving onto the final.

Episode 9: Get Me to the Finals

• Dustin Pague acts like a good samaritan when he tells the van driver to stop so he can give a homeless man on the street a food care package.
• When Mayhem stops by the house for the fighter's barbeque, he dares Dustin Pague to eat a couple of live backyard bugs. Dustin excepts and eats the creepy crawlers for Mayhem's $60.
• Bisping and Mayhem go head-to-head in a fast and frantic Dana White's annual "Coaches Challenge" when they play a game of Air Hockey for $10,000 cash ($1,500 each member of the winning team) on the roof of The Palms.
• Even though Bisping rises to victory against Mayhem, three games to one, Team Miller gets a laugh when, after his victory dance on the Air Hockey table, Bisping slips off of it falling onto his back.
• Second semifinal fight take place (Bantamweights): Dustin Pague vs. T.J. Dillashaw.
• T.J Dillashaw defeated Dustin Pague via unanimous decision (30-26 30-27 30-26) at 5:00 of the third round, to move onto the finale.

Episode 10:

• The last two semifinal fights take place (Bantamweights): Johnny Bedford vs. John Dodson, and (Featherweights): Bryan Caraway vs. Diego Brandao.

Featherweight Bracket

Elimination Round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finale

Diego Brandao

KO

Jesse Newell

1

Diego Brandao

KO

Steven Siler

1

Steven Siler

SUB

Micah Miller

3

Bryan Caraway

TKO

Diego Brandao

1

Marcus Brimage

TKO

Bryson Hansen

2

Marcus Brimage

SUB

Bryan Caraway

2

Bryan Caraway

UD

Eric Marriott

2

Dennis Bermudez

Akira Corassani

KO

Brian Pearman

1

Akira Corassani

MD

Dustin Neace

2

Dustin Neace

UD

Josh Clopton

2

Akira Corassani

SUB

Dennis Bermudez

1

Stephen Bass

SUB

Karsten Lenjoint

2

Stephen Bass

TKO

Dennis Bermudez

2

Dennis Bermudez

TKO

Jimmie Rivera

2

Bantamweight Bracket

Elimination Round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finale

Josh Ferguson

TKO

Casey Dyer

1

Josh Ferguson

UD

Johnny Bedford

2

Johnny Bedford

SUB

Carson Beebe

1

John Dodson

UD

Johnny Bedford

3

John Albert

SUB

Orville Smith

1

John Albert

UD

John Dodson

2

John Dodson

TKO

Brandon Merkt

1

T.J. Dillashaw

Louis Gaudinot

TKO

Paul McVeigh

3

Louis Gaudinot

SUB

Dustin Pague

2

Dustin Pague

MD

Tateki Matsuda

2

Dustin Pague

UD

T.J. Dillashaw

3

T.J. Dillashaw

TKO

Matt Jaggers

1

T.J. Dillashaw

SUB

Roland Delorme

2

Roland Delorme

SUB

B.J Ferguson

1

Finale

Main article: The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale

The finale is expected to be held December 3, 2011, at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[8]

References

1. ^ http://www.ultimatefighter.com/videos/14790/tuf-14-coming-september-21st
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3. ^ ""TUF 14" tryouts draw notables Din Thomas, Wagnney Fabiano, Micah Miller, Kit Cope". MMAJunkie.com. March 21, 2011. http://mmajunkie.com/news/22921/tuf-14-tryouts-draw-notables-din-thomas-wagnney-fabiano-micah-miller-kit-cope.mma. 
4. ^ "TUF 14 - Jason “Mayhem” Miller offers to step in for Chael Sonnen and stir the pot opposite Michael Bisping". MMABay.co.uk. April 6, 2011. http://www.mmabay.co.uk/2011/04/06/tuf-14-jason-%E2%80%9Cmayhem%E2%80%9D-miller-offers-to-step-in-for-chael-sonnen-and-stir-the-pot-opposite-michael-bisping. 
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7. ^ Dann Stupp (2011-9-21). "Episode No. 1 recap". http://mmajunkie.com/news/25327/episode-no-1-recap-the-ultimate-fighter-14-team-bisping-vs-team-miller.mma. 
8. ^ "Michael Bisping vs. Jason "Mayhem" Miller slated for The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale". MMAJunkie.com. http://mmajunkie.com/news/23786/michael-bisping-vs-mayhem-miller-slated-for-the-ultimate-fighter-14-finale.mma. Retrieved May 29, 2011.