The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra


The Ultimate Fighter 6: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra is the sixth season of the Ultimate Fighting Championship produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter, and premiered on September 19, 2007 on Spike TV, after UFC Fight Night 11. This season features only welterweight fighters. The teams are coached by then-UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra and former welterweight champion Matt Hughes. The coaches were to fight for the Welterweight title after the completion of the show, on December 29 at UFC 79 from the Mandalay Bay Events Center. However, due to an injury sustained by Serra, Hughes faced top contender Georges St-Pierre on the 29th, with St. Pierre defeating Hughes by submission in the second round and going on to challenge Serra for the undisputed welterweight title at a later date.
Both coaches are participating in a series of TUF for the second time. Hughes was a coach on series 2 and Serra won the welterweight division on series 4, thus earning the opportunity to face Georges St-Pierre at UFC 69.
Unlike in previous seasons, the winner of a match does not determine which team picks the next match. The teams alternate picking matches in the first round, regardless of results, and the team that has the most wins picks the fights for the quarterfinals.

Cast

Coaches and trainers

;Team Serra
;Team Hughes
* Mitichyan was replaced on episode 1 by Koppenhaver due to injury.

Others

Episode 1 – Don't You Tap '
  • A coin is flipped and Matt Serra wins. He opts to pick the first fighter, his student Scarola, which means Hughes gets to pick the first fight.
Coach1st Pick2nd Pick3rd Pick4th Pick5th Pick6th Pick7th Pick8th Pick
SerraJoe ScarolaGeorge SotiropoulosMatt ArroyoJohn KolosciBen SaundersRoman MitichyanTroy MandalonizRichie Hightower
HughesDan BarreraMac DanzigBilly MilesJared RollinsTommy SpeerPaul GeorgieffDorian PriceBlake Bowman

  • Mitichyan fractures his elbow during the evaluation session and is sent to a doctor, who determined that the Armenian was unable to fight.
  • Mitichyan was enraged at this and started kicking things, swearing heavily, and claiming that the doctor was out of his mind. He was then replaced by Jon Koppenhaver, with Team Serra wishing him well.
  • Mac Danzig defeats Joe Scarola by submission at 4:54 of the first round.
;Episode 2 – I Need You, Bro
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Episode 3 – It's About Character '
  • Team Hughes chooses Miles to fight Kolosci.
  • Both teams watch UFC 72.
  • Serra and Joe Scarola have a talk about Scarola still wanting to leave the house.
  • Upon returning from UFC 72, White has a talk with Scarola.
  • Scarola decides to leave the house. He also loses his job back at home teaching at Serra's academy due to his departure.
  • John Kolosci defeats Billy Miles by submission at 2:56 of the first round.
;Episode 4 – Get Out Of My Face
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;Episode 5 – Not A Real Fighter '
  • The fighters get to watch the finale of TUF 5.
  • Mac Danzig goes off on Blake Bowman after they watch the replay of Bowman's friend Cole Miller defeat Danzig's friend Andy Wang by TKO in the TUF 5 Finale. He tells Bowman, "you aren't a real fighter, just a hick from Alabama, or wherever the fuck you're from."
  • Paul Georgieff receives news from his mother, after Hughes arrives at the house and allows him a phone call, that his 19-year-old cousin has died.
  • White allows Georgieff to fly home for the funeral, only if he fights before he leaves.
  • Because of the circumstances, Team Hughes chooses Georgieff to fight Troy Mandaloniz.
  • Bowman tells all the fighters what Danzig said to him earlier, and all the other fighters agree with Bowman and think it was completely uncalled for Danzig to say that about him for no reason. Ben Saunders says he considers Bowman a fighter just like everyone else who is here.
  • Hughes gets wind of what happened at the house, and he has a talk with his team the next day during practice, calling out Danzig and saying that he should apologize.
  • Saunders, Mandaloniz, and Jon Koppenhaver draw Danzig's face on a milk carton while Team Hughes is away at practice, and they repeatedly beat it all throughout the house.
  • Troy Mandaloniz defeats Paul Georgieff by KO at 2:39 of the first round.
  • Team Hughes must win the next three fights to get the power of choosing the quarterfinal fights.
Episode 6 – It's All A Test
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;Episode 7 – The Game Plan '
  • Hughes is frustrated after five straight losses, going off on his team and Barrera and nearly walking off the show.
  • Team Hughes chooses Rollins to fight Sotiropoulos leaving Tom Speer to fight Jon Koppenhaver.
  • Team Serra turns on Sotiropoulos for not waking them up. Ben Saunders says that the Australian is only here for himself.
  • Rollins injures his ribs at practice before the fight, and becomes very emotional because he does not want to be unable to fight. After going to the doctor, Rollins tells his teammates he only has bruised ribs, and the doctor cleared him to fight.
  • Saunders and Sotiropoulos get into a verbal disagreement over the Australian not waking his team up for the second consecutive day.
  • George Sotiropoulos defeats Jared Rollins by TKO at 3:48 of the first round.
  • Rollins takes the loss very hard and is very emotional. White consoles him and tells him that he has nothing to be upset about, and that he "fought his ass off."
;Episode 8 – War Machine
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;Episode 9 – Karma '
  • During selections for the quarterfinals, Serra wants the two Team Hughes fighters to fight each other, but his fighters want otherwise.
  • The fights that Serra chooses are: Danzig against Kolosci, Matt Arroyo vs. Troy Mandaloniz, George Sotiropoulos vs. Richie Hightower, and Tom Speer vs. Ben Saunders.
  • White tells Team Serra that since four members of the blue team are fighting each other, two of them will be cornered and trained by Hughes for their fights. Serra decides not to pick which guys he wants to send to Hughes.
  • Many of the fighters complain of Danzig and his bipolar mood swings.
  • Danzig orders a hummingbird feeder and hangs it outside on a lightpole. Other fighters, such as Jon Koppenhaver, move it around various places in the backyard to intentionally anger Danzig.
  • Later that night, Danzig has a heart-to-heart with Blake Bowman, and decides to take a more positive approach to his experience on the show. He then promises to be nice to Bowman for the rest of the time they are on the show.
  • The next day, after the weigh-ins, it is determined by coin toss that Hightower and Arroyo will be cornered and trained by Hughes for their quarterfinal fights.
  • Hightower and Arroyo approach the Team Hughes coaches and tell them that they both plan to continue training with Team Serra.
  • Mac Danzig defeated John Kolosci by submission at 3:55 of the first round.
;Episode 10 – Nothing To Lose
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;Episode 11 – Upper Decker '
  • Speer is worried that he may not be cleared to fight due to how badly his face is bruised and cut up from his last fight against Jon Koppenhaver.
  • During the time Team Hughes was at their training session, Richie Hightower, Troy Mandaloniz and Koppenhaver decided to play a prank after they have been drinking, in which a person puts their feces in the toilet's tank, so when someone flushes the toilet, the feces washes up into the bowl.
  • When Team Hughes returns to the house, Mac Danzig gets annoyed with Hightower and says he laughs like Fran Drescher.
  • When Jared Rollins finds out about the upper decker, he kicks in Koppenhaver's door and confronts the three about it. Rollins slaps Koppenhaver across the head and rips his hat off, so Koppenhaver tackles him down onto the bed. They eventually resolve the conflict and Koppenhaver and Mandaloniz clean up the upper decker.
  • Tom Speer defeated Ben Saunders by unanimous decision after the second round.
  • Semifinal matches will be Danzig against Matt Arroyo and Speer against George Sotiropoulos.
;Episode 12 – Do You Want This Fight?
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* Arroyo was replaced by Kolosci due to rib injury.

The Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra Finale was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 8, 2007. Featured were the finals from in the Welterweight division as well as a main event between Roger Huerta and Clay Guida.

Results

Bonus awards

At the end of this event, $30,000.
UFC 98: Evans vs. Machida was held on May 23, 2009 in Paradise, Nevada.