Cdn Delorme added to TUF 14 card

The UFC has announced the full fight card for Saturday's finale of The Ultimate Fighter 14: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller and it includes the season's only Canadian cast member.

Winnipeg's Roland Delorme, who fell in episode 7 of the reality show by second-round submission to eventual finalist T.J. Dillashaw, will take on Josh Ferguson. The latter also lost in the quarter-finals of the bantamweight bracket, dropping a decision to Johnny Bedford.

Watch the TUF 14 finale live on Sportsnet on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. Also watch weigh-ins streamed live on sportsnet.ca Friday at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT.

Delorme, who threw a party in order raise the funds for his trip to New Jersey for the TUF tryouts in March, landed a spot on the show and won his first fight by first-round submission over B.J. Ferguson in the elimination round. The 27-year-old was then selected to Miller’s squad.

This is the first season of The Ultimate Fighter that the lower weight classes were featured. Diego Brandao, who defeated Bryan Caraway by first-round knockout in the final episode that aired Wednesday, meets Dennis Bermudez in the featherweight final, while Dillashaw takes on John Dodson for the bantamweight title. Dodson knocked off Bedford, a fellow Team Miller member, in the semis.

Despite losing in the semi-finals of their respective brackets, Bedford and Caraway will also be featured on Saturday’s card. Bedford takes on Louis Gaudinot while Caraway meets Dustin Neace. Gaudinot and Neace were both quarter-final losers.

The event, which takes place at The Pearl at the Palms in Las Vegas, will be headlined by a middleweight contender matchup between the two coaches Michael Bisping and Jason Miller.

NOTES: Saturday’s televised card will be a three-hour broadcast and the undercard will stream on the UFC’s Facebook page, where fans can also vote on the season’s “fight bonuses.” Best knockout, top submission and best fight of the season are up for grabs, with each winner getting $25,000 … UFC 140, which takes place the following Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, will feature a live four-fight undercard free on Sportsnet, starting at 7 p.m. ET, instead of the usual 8 p.m. ET. It includes three Canadians: Winnipeg’s Krzysztof Soszynski faces Igor Pokrajac; Montreal’s John Makdessi duels Dennis Hallman; and Makdessi’s teammate Yves Jabouin meets Walel Watson.

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