UFC TUF 10 Finale Lock Alert – Matt Mitrione vs. Marcus Jones

While Roy Nelson was the top dog in the Ultimate Fighter 10 house the whole season, make no mistake about it, Marcus Jones was the guy everyone else least wanted to fight.

The former first round NFL draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at defensive end was probably the biggest and most intimidating fighter to ever put an Octagon-shaped necklace around his neck on the show, and he made it all the way to the semi-finals before falling to fellow former NFL’er Brendan Schaub.

His opponent at the UFC Ultimate Finale on Saturday night is another former NFL player in Matt Mitrione, but his time on the TUF show was much different than what Jones experienced.

Instead of people fearing him, most in the house simply despised him for his snitch-like ways and his waffling over whether or not he should fight with a concussion.

Mitrione looked pretty good against Scott Junk in a win, but he was outclassed by James McSweeney in the quarterfinals and seemed to give up when put in a guillotine choke on the ground, simply waiting to tap out instead of actually trying to get out of the choke.

That could spell big trouble for Mitrione against the massive, ground specialist Jones, and the boys at BetUS seem to agree. The Sportsbook currently has Mitrione (+250 ) as a big underdog to Jones (-350).

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Jones has a big edge in strength and on the ground but Mitrione does have the power to give him a puncher’s chance considering that Jones’ chin was exposed a bit in his loss to Schaub.

But Jones also has a vendetta against Mitrione, as he came close to swinging on him outside the Octagon when he learned that an errant thumb by Mitrione almost cost his friend Junk his fighting career due to an injury to his retina.

As big as Jones is, the last thing you want him to be when he enters the Octagon for the Ultimate Fighter Finale on Saturday is to be angry, but that should be the case even though Jones has had some time to simmer down.

An angry, motivated Jones should handle Mitrione with no problems as long as Mitrione hasn’t somehow made some sort of giant leap in the weeks since the show ended.

The pick: Marcus Jones (-350) by armbar in the first round.

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