The Ultimate Fighter 12 - team gsp vs team koscheck

Spike TV officials today unveiled the group of 28 lightweight fighters who will compete on the upcoming 12th season of "The Ultimate Fighter."

The show, which features UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and title-challenger Josh Koscheck as coaches, debuts Sept. 15 on Spike TV.

Cast members – who come from the U.S., Ireland and England – are as young as 21 and as old as 35, and notables include J.J. Ambrose, Jonathan Brookins, Mike Budnik, Nam Phan, Ariel Sexton and others who have big-stage experience.

As with the most recent season of the UFC's long-running reality series, "TUF 12" uses a 32-slot, 28-man tournament format. The group was cut in half by an immediate elimination-round of fights, and the remaining 14 fighters comprise the show's official cast. Two of the 14 fighters who lose in the first round get second chances in the tournament's second round as "wild card" picks. (Kris McCray, who competed on "TUF 11," was the show's runner-up after capitalizing on his wild-card status.)

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Ariel Sexton general update

Ariel Sexton has signed a multi-fight deal with Dave Pavelich's Maximum Fighting Championship "MFC". Wanting to always test his limits agreed to fight against hard-nosed vet Derrick Noble. Although getting fight of the night, Sexton was cut short of a win in the second round. Sexton is happy with his effort and will be back in MFC in October 2, 2009 for MFC 22 Payoff.

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Athletic Advance

Sexton has opened a new gym in San Jose, Costa Rica called athletic advance where he along with all the Gracie Costa Rica fighters now train. Now Ariel is able to do all this training in one place he is very happy and able to fully focus on what’s important for his career. Good things on the horizon!! LOS CAMPEONES NO NACEN SE HACEN!! Welcome to all who want to come down to Costa Rica and better your self.

Ariel Sexton signs with the MFC

MMA News Written by Arnold Lim - The Sushiboy Thursday, 04 September 2008

The Maximum Fighting Championship has added the always entertaining Ariel Sexton to their 155-pound lightweight roster. TheVancouver-born fighter is coming off a fight-of-the-night performance against Myles Merola at the Hardcore Championship fighting and will join a stable of MFC lightweights that include Fabio Holanda, Donald Sanchez, Jason Maxwell, Josh Russell, Mike Maestas and Ryan Heck.

Sexton, who now lives and trains with Team Ryan Gracie in Costa Rica, said "Fighting for the MFC will be a great opportunity for me. The organization is really going places. They have an impressive resume of achievements like their TV deal with HDNet and they have a lot of young up-and-comers like me so I think I made a really smart business decision signing with them, I want everyone to know who I am. I'm only one of two fighters of Costa Rican descent who are fighting internationally so this is my chance to make a name for myself among North American MMA fans."

MFC president and owner Mark Pavelich us also excited about the addition of the young fighter. "This guy is an absolute beast. He reminds me of the 155-pound version of Ryan Ford, only his jiu-jitsu is on another level. I'm so excited about signing him that I can hardly contain myself. I predict he'll be one of the two fighters fighting for my inaugural lightweight belt by the beginning of 2009."

Sexton who has only one loss to his record closed by saying, "I just finished taping "El Gran Peleado" (The Great Fighter) which was an MMA reality series in Costa Rica. I really can't say much about the show because it hasn't aired yet but I was very happy with my performance. My hard work is finally paying off. I'm looking forward to coming back to Canada to fight, though I don't miss the cold weather. I'm making my MFC debut in November. I want to go in and get an impressive win and then I'm going to concentrate on winning that belt.