The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson

Cast

Coaches

• Shane Carwin, head coach
• Trevor Wittman, boxing coach
• Nate Marquardt, jiu Jitsu coach
• Pat Barry, striking coach
• Duane Ludwig, striking coach
• Leister Bowling, wrestling coach
• Loren Landlow, sports performance coach

• Roy Nelson, head coach
• Nick Diaz
• Nate Diaz
• Jake Shields
• Gilbert Melendez

  Fighters

• Team Carwin
• * Sam Alvey, Bristol Marunde, Mike Ricci, Neil Magny, James Chaney, Eddy Ellis, Igor Araujo, Matt Secor
• Team Nelson
• *Dom Waters, Michael Hill, Cameron Diffley, Colton Smith,Jon Manley, Nic Herron-Webb, Joey Rivera, Julian Lane
• Fighters eliminated during the entry round

  Episodes

• Dana White welcomed the 32 fighters, consisting of all welterweights, to the show at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. He introduced them to the coaches, heavyweights Shane Carwin and Roy "Big Country" Nelson.
• White dismissed the fighters to pre-fight warm-ups for the elimination round.
• The preliminary fights began:
• White expressed his displeasure in some of the fights, but congratulated all of the winning fighters on making it onto the show. Carwin and Nelson then picked teams and a coin was flipped. Nelson won the coin toss and opted to choose the first fight, so Carwin was allowed to choose the first fighter. The fighters were picked in the following order:

• The sixteen victorious fighters moved into the house. Rifts immediately began to form, with Matt Secor and Julian Lane frequently arguing. Later, Lane and Colton Smith pulled a prank on members of Team Carwin.
• Mike Ricci and Michael Hill note that they are the two only Canadian fighters on the show and befriend each other
• Nelson announced that his team would be training once a day – as opposed to the usual format in previous seasons of two-a-day training sessions – which caused frustration amongst his team.
• Nelson matched Diffley, a former TUF coach on TUF 7, against Magny.
• Neil Magny defeated Cameron Diffley via unanimous decision after two rounds.

• Nic Herron-Webb creates more household enemies when he decides that 2:00 am is the perfect time to play pool, whistle and jump rope outside people’s bedrooms.
• Julian Lane, Colton Smith and Herron-Webb take Alvey's mattress from his bedroom and float it on the pool outside. After seeing what happened, Alvey just laughed it off.
• Carwin announced the match up of Alvey against Rivera.
• Joey Rivera defeated Sam Alvey by majority decision after two rounds.

• Nelson had his team draw straws to determine who would fight next. Whoever drew the short straw would fight next and pick his opponent or pass the straw to a teammate.
• Lane drew the short straw and picked Marunde to fight.
• The fighters and coaches went to a screening of the new MMA based movie, Here Comes the Boom, starring Kevin James.
• Marunde was worried about making weight. He weighed 186 lbs at the fight announcement, but was able to drop down to 170 lbs at the weigh in. Nelson along with Lane and Joey Rivera questioned the accuracy of those results.
• Bristol Marunde defeated Julian Lane via unanimous decision after two rounds.
• After the fight, Nelson confronted White about the controversy surrounding Marunde's weigh-in, asking if White wanted him to "keep an eye out on the commission" in the future. White stated that the commission's statement of Marunde making weight is true and that Nelson was being stupid.

• Julian Lane was shown crying in the locker room after his loss talking about wanting to make a better life for his family and how he has nothing left for him.
• Carwin asked his team who was ready to fight,, to determine the next fight match.
• Matt Secor and Lane nearly came to blows after Secor farted and "threw it at Lane."
• This caused Lane to snap, claiming he would risk going home, just to fight Secor, as he had already lost his fight.
• Carwin announced the matchup of Araujo against Herron-Webb.
• UFC veteran and TUF alumni Eliot Marshall became a part of Team Carwin's coaching staff.
• Team Nelson put Mike Ricci's bed on top of the gazebo in the backyard causing a verbal spat between Herron-Webb and Ricci, who was not as patient as Sam Alvey.
• Igor Araujo defeated Nic Herron-Webb via majority decision after two rounds.
• White and the rest of Team Nelson believed that Herron-Webb was screwed out of a third round.

• Nelson complained about Nic Herron-Webb's decision loss to Igor Araujo in the previous week.
• Members of Team Nelson ate and threw away the chicken that belonged to Matt Secor and other members of the yellow team. Secor blamed Michael Hill which caused an argument, leading to Hill calling Secor out for the next fight.
• Despite this, Carwin chose Ellis to fight Team Nelson's Smith.
• Carwin brought in UFC veteran Eliot Marshall and Trevor Wittman to help formulate a game plan for the fight against Ellis.
• Colton Smith defeated Eddy Ellis by majority decision after two rounds.
• This was yet another match that White and Team Carwin believed should have gone to a third round.

• Nelson picked his next fighter by having his team "pick a number."
• Dom Waters won, but did not want to pick an opponent, so he passed control to Hill who picked Secor.
• TUF 1 winner Forrest Griffin came in as a guest coach to show Team Nelson some striking skills.
• Michael Hill defeated Matt Secor by split decision after three rounds.
• White complained about the judging once again, as the third round was deemed by those in attendance to be highly controversial.

• White visited the house to try to inspire the fighters after a few lackluster bouts leading to poor judges' decisions.
• Michael Hill got drunk and challenged Neil Magny to a fight in the quarter-finals.
• Julian Lane, in a drunken rage, then began challenging Dom Waters to a fight by continuing to plea "let me bang, bro," to Hill. Despite Hill's assurance that " will let bang," the fight never materialized and Lane ultimately cried.
• Mike Ricci stated that people like Lane make him not want to be associated with the sport.
• The Coaches' Challenge took place with Nelson and Carwin competing in Olympic sports such as javelin, discus and shot put. The winners of each of the 5 sports they took place in gained a 3m advantage in the decisive 400m race. Carwin easily got all of the mile advantages, before winning the race and the $20,000 reward.
• Jon Manley defeated James Chaney via submission at 3:25 of the first round.
• The fight was also controversial in that Chaney later admitted that he bit Manley in an attempt to escape from the submission attempt.

• The last match was automatically set up with Ricci matched against Waters.
• Julian Lane throws another fit in the house when he and Colton Smith discuss what they have done in their lives.
• Mike Ricci defeated Dom Waters via unanimous decision after three rounds.

• Michael Hill gets mad at Mike Ricci, as they are the two Canadians on the show, for betraying their friendship by requesting to fight him which they had previously agreed to in the finals only, and a rift forms between the two.
• At the weigh-in, there is a verbal spat between Araujo and Smith after the BJJ blackbelt shoves the Army Ranger. Smith calls Araujo a motherfucker, enraging the Brazilian and his teammates come and restrain him.
• Neil Magny defeated Bristol Marunde via unanimous decision.
• Colton Smith defeated Igor Araujo via unanimous decision.

• Jon Manley defeated Joey Rivera via majority decision.
• Mike Ricci defeated Michael Hill via unanimous decision.

• Colton Smith defeated Jon Manley via unanimous decision.
• Mike Ricci defeated Neil Magny via KO in the first round.
• The finalists are announced to be Smith and Ricci.

  Tournament Bracket

• Fight of the Season: Colton Smith vs. Eddy Ellis
• Knockout of the Season: Mike Ricci
• Submission of the Season: Jon Manley

  The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale

Background

Results

Bonus Awards

• Fight of the Night: Tim Elliott vs. Jared Papazian
• Knockout of the Night: Pat Barry
• Submission of the Night: TJ Waldburger

  Reported payout

• Roy Nelson: $48,000 def. Matt Mitrione: $12,000
• Colton Smith: $16,000 def. Mike Ricci: $8,000
• Pat Barry: $44,000 def. Shane Del Rosario: $20,000
• Dustin Poirier: $34,000 def. Jonathan Brookins: $20,000
• Mike Pyle: $78,000 def. James Head: $12,000
• Johnny Bedford: $16,000 def. Marcos Vinicius: $8,000
• Rustam Khabilov: $16,000 def. Vinc Pichel: $8,000
• Anthony Waldburger: $28,000 def. Nick Catone: $13,000
• Hugo Viana: $16,000 def. Reuben Duran: $8,000
• Mike Rio: $16,000 def. John Cofer: $8,000
• Tim Elliott: $12,000 def. Jared Papazian: $6,000