The Best Fighter 17 Finale this Saturday evening is not your typical TUF Finale. For starters, the marketing has moved the event outside of its long-time property at the Palms (due, curiously enough, to a beef between Dana White and the proprietors of the hotel over gambling lines of credit) to the Mandalay Bay Events Center. It is a distinctive setup, as the UFC an average of only works Mandalay Bay for greater pay-per-view events, and this one is a free card. In keeping with the topic of the event, the marketing has loaded the card with intriguing battles, none that tend to be more intriguing compared to major event between Scott Jorgensen and Urijah Faber. Yesterday I broke down Faber's career timeline, and today we'll take a peek at distinctive moments from Jorgensen's career. October. 17, 1982: Jorgensen exists in St. George, Utah. He started wrestling in third grade, and wrestled in college for Boise State University. His professional fighting debut is made by june 15, 2006: Jorgensen against Mike Morris at Alaska Fighting Championship 24. A first-round submission is earned by him by armbar in 1:31. June. His first professional fight is lost by 9, 2006: Jorgensen to Joe Jesser at Ring of Fire 26, falling his record to 2-1. He rebounds by generating consecutive victories over Tyler Toner and Chris David before signing with World Extreme Cagefighting. February. 13, 2008: Jorgensen makes his WEC introduction at WEC 32, dropping a decision to Damacio Page. Following the loss, Jorgensen beat Kenji Osawa and Frank Gomez at WEC 35 and WEC 38, respectively. August 7, 2009: Jorgensen loses to Antonio Banuelos, falling his WEC record to 2-2. Oct. A five-fight WEC winning streak is begun by 10, 2009: Jorgensen by whipping Noah Thomas. During the streak, Jorgensen beat Takeya Mizugaki, Chad George, Brad Pickett and earned vengeance on Banuelos. The talent also attached Jorgensen his first WEC title shot in addition to his first Fight of the Night award. December. 16, 2010: Jorgensen faces Dominick Cruz for the WEC bantamweight tournament, but drops a unanimous decision. The battle is significant for being the final round in the background of the WEC, as the promotion was folded into the UFC the following month. August 4, 2011: Jorgensen makes his UFC introduction, whipping Ken Stone at the Greatest Fighter 13 Finale. He would follow that up by beating Jeff Curran at UFC 137. March. 4, 2012: Jorgensen drops to Renan Barao in a round which could have vaulted him into UFC title competition. He then lost to Eddie Wineland before rebounding with a conquer John Albert. May 13, 2013: Jorgensen looks Urijah Faber in the primary function of the Greatest Fighter 17 Finale. Faber and Jorgensen have already been friends for decades. They are managed by the same company. In fact, Faber is commonly credited by Jorgensen as one of the driving facets that helped get him in to mixed fighting techinques.
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