Episode
The Ultimate Fighter: Smiling and Punching
Overview
Dana adds a wrinkle to the semifinal matchups that infuriates the coaches. Team USA wonders if there's a traitor in their midst. And a bruising three round battle kicks off the semifinal fights.
Details
- Series
- The Ultimate Fighter
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2009-06-03
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Smiling and Punching is Episode 10 in United States vs. United Kingdom of The Ultimate Fighter. It aired on 2009-06-03. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 9: Battle Royale
Dana decides which Team USA fighter will replace Jason Pierce and take on David Faulkner in the final preliminary fight. And both teams collide in a heated argument over changing training times.
Episode 11: More Ups, Less Downs
One Team UK member is exposed for his embarrassing habit, while another suffers an injury in training. And in two action-packed semifinal match-ups, four lightweight fighters slug it out to earn their spot in the live finale.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: Negative Energy
A Team USA injury becomes a nasty infection, while one of the Brits struggles with a career-threatening mental problem. Then, after the next preliminary fight, Dana is forced to make a controversial decision that could blow the competition wide open.
Episode 12: Rematch
Michael Bisping drops by the house for a meal with his fighters, after which some UK teammates get out of control. Then in the final semifinal fight, Frank Lester and James Wilks face off in a rematch to see who will fill the last spot in the finale.
Episode 7: The Bash Room
Sudden injuries and infections leave everyone wondering who will be chosen to fight. Pierce becomes an outcast among his team. Bisping and Henderson go head-to-head in the Coaches Challenge.
Episode 13: Team US vs Team UK Finale
Episode 6: $100 a Tooth
One fighter’s nerves nearly incapacitate him. Another makes a pre-fight bet that ends in a bizarre payoff. Two fights in one episode continue the battle between nations.
Episode 14: Team US vs Team UK Finale 2
Episode 5: Wiggity Wack
Team USA’s infighting drives one American to form a bond with the Brits. Four fighters enter the Octagon for lightweight and welterweight bouts, and a coach fails to support his team member.
Episode 4: Game On
Team USA grows tired of Bisping's cockiness and retaliate against the British team. After a clever strategy session and intense training it's finally time for the first US vs UK preliminary fight.
Episode 3: Red, White & Bruised
The Americans and Brits move into the house as a fighter loses control and is ostracized. The last two Team USA members are decided when Kiel Reid and Jason Dent take on Frank Lester and Rob Browning.
Episode 2: Scars and Stripes
With Team United Kingdom set, the US elimination fights get underway in Las Vegas. But the Americans stumble badly out of the gate, and Dana questions Team United States commitment.