Alexa Grasso has prevailed against Valentina Shevchenko in the battle for the coaching positions.

Team Grasso Featherweight Mairon Santos (13-1) took the last place in the The Ultimate Fighter 32 Finale with a unanimous decision victory over teammate Guillermo Torres (7-1) in the season finale of the long-running television show. That means three Team Grasso fighters will compete at Saturday’s UFC Vegas 96 event with a UFC contract on the line.

Torres, who fell in his quarterfinal bout, was given a second chance after being called upon to replace Team Bullet’s Zygimantas Ramaska. Before this episode, there were doubts as to whether Ramaska ​​would be medically cleared after his injury in his first fight, and it was ultimately decided that he could not compete.

To make the fight even more controversial, Santos was actually half a pound over the featherweight limit, but was still allowed to take part in the fight as scheduled.

The semifinal bout was tightly contested, with neither fighter able to generate much offensive power in the first two rounds. Santos maintained a slight lead throughout, winning the kicking battle from distance and occasionally landing a hard punch. Torres’ grappling made him a constant threat, however, and he was always looking for an opportunity to knock Santos down, even when the Brazilian was cutting off the cage.

In the end, Santos’ quick-wittedness and aggressiveness were enough to give him the victory and a place in the TUF32 Final of the featherweight tournament.

Santos fights teammate Kaan Ofli (11-2-1) on Saturday, while Grasso’s Robert Valentin (10-3) faces Shevchenko’s Ryan Loder (6-1) to determine the season’s middleweight champion.

The pairings in the final can be seen below:

TUF32 Featherweight final

Kaan Ofli (Australia) vs. Mairon Santos (Brazil)

TUF32 Middleweight final

Ryan Loder (USA) vs. Robert Valentin (Switzerland)

Overall, Grasso proved to be the better trainer by a small margin, as her fighters won five of the eight first-round encounters and then three of the semifinal fights (in one of which two fighters from Team Grasso competed against each other).

With the completion of TUF32Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko will face each other in a three-way flyweight championship match at UFC 306 at The Sphere in Las Vegas on September 14.

The finalists of the TUF32 In middleweight and featherweight tournaments, competitors will compete for a six-figure UFC contract at the show’s live finale, which takes place as part of the main card of UFC Vegas 96.

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Here are the TUF32 Squad lists divided by teams:

Team Grasso

Featherweights

1. Guillermo Torres (Mexico) (7-1)
2. Kaan Ofli (Australia) (10-2-1)
3. Bekhzod Usmonov (Tajikistan) (11-4)
4. Mairon Santos (Brazil) (13-1)

Featherweights

1. Robert Valentin (Switzerland) (10-3)
2. Paddy McCorry (Ireland) (4-1)
3. Omran Chaaban (Finland) (6-1)
4. Tom Theocharis (Canada) (9-5)

Team Shevchenko

Featherweights

1. Roedie Roets (South Africa) (7-1)
2. Zygimantas Ramaska ​​​​(Lithuania) (9-2)
3. Nathan Fletcher (England) (8-1)
4. Edwin Cooper Jr. (USA) (6-1)

Middleweights

1. Shamidkhan Magomedov (Russia) (7-1)
2. Mark Hulme (South Africa) (12-3)
3. Ryan Loder (USA) (6-1)
4. Giannis Bachar (Greece) (9-2)

The results of the semi-finals can be found below:

Middleweight

Ryan Loder defeated Omran Chaaban by decision

Paddy McCorry defeats Robert Valentin by submission (Leg Trap Americana) (R1)

Featherweight

Kaan Ofli defeated. Roedie Roets via submission (guillotine choke) (R1)

Mairon Santos defeated Guillermo Torres by decision

Below you will find the results of the quarter-finals:

Roedie Roets defeated Guillermo Torres by decision

Robert Valentin defeated Giannis Bachar via KO (punches) (R1)

Kaan Ofli defeated Nathan Fletcher by decision

Omran Chaaban defeated Shamidkhan Magomedov by technical submission (Anaconda Choke) (R2)

Zygimantas Ramaska ​​​​defeated. Bekhzod Usmonov by decision

Ryan Loder defeats Tom Theocharis by submission (arm-triangle choke)

Mairon Santos defeated Edwin Cooper Jr. via split decision

Paddy McCorry defeats Mark Hulme by submission (guillotine choke) (R1)