The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom


The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom is the ninth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship 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 and Welterweight fighters. 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.

Cast

Coaches

;Episode 1 – Bangers & Mashers
;Episode 2Scars & Stripes
;Episode 3 – Red, White & Bruised
;Episode 4 – Game On
;Episode 5 – Wiggity Wack
;Episode 6 – $100 a Tooth
;Episode 7 – The Bash Room
;Episode 8 – Negative Energy
;Episode 9 – Battle Royale
;Episode 10 – Smiling and Punching
;Episode 11 – More Ups, Less Downs
;Episode 12 – All American Nightmare

Welterweight Bracket


The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale

The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship 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.

Background

A previously announced lightweight bout between Thiago Tavares and Melvin Guillard was called off due to an elbow injury suffered by Tavares. Gleison Tibau would step in as Tavares' replacement.
Eric Schafer was originally scheduled to face Tomasz Drwal at this event, but he injured his rib and was replaced by Mike Ciesnolevicz.
A matchup between Anthony Johnson and Matt Brown was scrapped due to a knee injury suffered by Johnson. A replacement was set to be named, however, due to nagging injuries Brown did not fight on the card.
This was the first time in the organization's history, the UFC handed out three Fight of the Night bonuses. Another first for the UFC came in the form of Kim Winslow, the first female referee to officiate a fight in the organization.
This fight card is also noted for two controversial decisions in bouts pitting Brad Blackburn against Edgar Garcia and Melvin Guillard against Gleison Tibau. Both Blackburn and Guillard received split-decision victories from the judges in bouts that are considered questionable. The decisions cost Garcia his perfect record and snapped a two-fight win streak for Tibau.
This was the first UFC event to feature five Ultimate Fighter winners on the complete card, including season 9 champions Ross Pearson & James Wilks, and previous season champions Diego Sanchez, Joe Stevenson, and Nate Diaz. Only UFC 114 the following year has had the same number of TUF winners since.

Results

Bonus awards

Fighters were awarded $25,000 bonuses.