Jens Pulver against B.J. Penn, lightweight.
Professional bouts from our fight records, on a sanctioned card. They are separate from the house bouts below, which never count toward a professional record.
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn FinaleJun 23, 20079 of 13 contestants made their UFC debut on this card, by our records.
Contestants link to their canonical profile where one exists.
Episode by episode: the bouts that aired and the sourced competition events. Results are the tournament’s own record below; an episode only says where they aired.
Professional: 1 · House results verified: 14 · House exhibitions: 14
Result and classification are separate. A reported winner comes from the season record alone; a verified one is stated by an official source or our own result records. Only sourced professional bouts count toward a professional record — house exhibitions and unresolved house bouts never do.
The source numbers these rounds in a way that does not map onto a standard bracket; they are listed here in the order given. Gabe Ruediger was expelled for missing weight and Rob Emerson reinstated in his place; Marlon Sims, Noah Thomas and Allen Berube were expelled after a backyard fight.
early_rounds — The source labels the opening bouts as an elimination round plus 'Round 2', 'Round 3' and 'Round 4' across episodes 1-7, which does not map cleanly onto a sixteen-fighter bracket. They are recorded together as the opening rounds in the order given, without being renamed into stages the source does not claim.
final_method_and_opponent_name — Our own records and the season source describe the same bout differently. Both agree on round 2 at twenty seconds and on Nate Diaz winning. The source calls it a TKO from a shoulder injury; UFC Stats records it as a submission. And the opponent is 'Manny Gamburyan' in the source and 'Manvel Gamburyan' in ufc_fighters — the same man under two spellings. Both readings are kept; neither is corrected into the other.
gamburyan_name — The season source calls him Manny Gamburyan; our fighter roster and ufcstats call him Manvel Gamburyan. One man, two spellings — the archive keeps the source’s and records the roster’s alongside it, so a lookup on either resolves. Found because the classification check reported the final as unverifiable when the bout was in our records all along.
final_method_wording — Our result row records the final as a submission; the season source records a TKO on a shoulder injury. Both describe the same bout on the same card — Gamburyan’s shoulder dislocated and the fight ended there — so this is two descriptions of one finish, not two fights. Recorded rather than reconciled, because neither source is wrong about what happened.
Season data from the season record, retrieved 2026-09-07. The finale card now holds nine bouts — backfill window B-2007 loaded them — so the tournament final is VERIFIED against our own ufc_bout_results row rather than merely sourced. The coaches' bout on the same card is still sourced only: B.J. Penn has no fighter row yet, so there is nothing to verify it against. Nothing is imported; the card's bouts live on the event page and are linked, not restated. House results, fight dates and classification are from the Nevada State Athletic Commission's Season 5 results record (tuf5-tuf6-nsac-reconciliation, reviewed by Justin Erickson). The draft's differing values are kept in each bout's corrections and superseded_result_sources; compatible method detail survives only where the commission category agrees. Printed readings: Matt Wiman vs Marlon Sims: the record prints "choke out ... rear naked choke"; read as Technical submission (rear naked choke) (approved reading).
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn FinaleJun 23, 2007
Closed against the Nevada State Athletic Commission record: all four quarter-finals are on it, and Gray Maynard beat Brandon Melendez before meeting Nate Diaz in the semi-finals.
