The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom | |
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Genre | Reality, Sports |
Created by | Craig Piligian, Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta, Dana White |
Starring | Dana White, Michael Bisping, Dan Henderson |
Country of origin | United States |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
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Original network | Spike, Virgin 1 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir |
Followed by | The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights |
The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale | ||||
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A poster or logo for The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale.
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Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
Date | June 20, 2009 | |||
Venue | Pearl Concert Theater | |||
City | Las Vegas, Nevada | |||
Attendance | 2,217 | |||
Total gate | $498,650 | |||
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The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom is the ninth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. It began production in January 2009, and began airing on Spike on April 1, 2009. The season featured Lightweight fighters (146–155 lb) and Welterweight fighters (156–170 lb). In order to be considered for the show, a fighter had to have competed in at least three professional bouts prior to the tryouts in October 2008.
UFC Middleweight fighter and winner of The Ultimate Fighter 3, Michael Bisping served as one of the two coaches. The other coach was Dan Henderson. Henderson earned his place as a coach at UFC 93: Franklin vs. Henderson by defeating Rich Franklin.
Bisping and Henderson fought each other at UFC 100 on July 11, 2009. Henderson defeated Bisping in a second round knockout.
^ *: Frank Lester replaced Jason Pierce after Dana White did not allow Pierce to continue in the tournament.
The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale (also known as The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on June 20, 2009. Featured were finals from The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom in both the Lightweight and Welterweight divisions as well as a main event between Diego Sanchez and Clay Guida.