GameSpot.com has revealed the official full 80-man roster for the upcoming UFC 2009 Undisputed video game by THQ.
Also of note, GameSpot.com claims the game will be released in North America on May 19, 2009 and not June 2, 2009 as has been listed with other retailers. GameStop retailers also apparently has exclusive downloadable content rights to both The Ultimate Fighter: Season 9 winners.
- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
- Brock Lesnar
- Frank Mir
- Brandon Vera (can switch to Light Heavyweight)
- Gabriel Gonzaga
- Cain Velasquez
- Cheick Kongo
- Eddie Sanchez
- Heath Herring
- Andrei Arlovski
- Mirko Crocop
- Fabricio Werdum
- Tim Sylvia
- Mark Coleman
- Antoni Hardonk
- Justin McCully
- Chuck Liddell
- Quinton “Rampage” Jackson
- Forrest Griffin
- Tito Ortiz
- Keith Jardine
- Wanderlei Silva
- Mauricio “Shogun” Rua
- Lyoto Machida
- Rashad Evans
- Stephan Bonnar
- James Irvin
- Wilson Gouveia (can switch to Middleweight)
- Houston Alexander
- Kazuhiro Nakamura
- Thiago Silva
- Tim Boetsch
- Ryan Bader (downloadable content — GameStop exclusive)
- Anderson Silva (can switch to Light Heavyweight)
- Rich Franklin (can switch to Light Heavyweight)
- Dan Henderson (can switch to Light Heavyweight)
- Michael Bisping (can switch to Light Heavyweight)
- Kendall Grove
- Chris Leben
- Jason MacDonald
- Nate Marquardt
- Drew McFedries
- Ricardo Almeida
- Evan Tanner
- Yushin Okami
- Demian Maia
- Martin Kampmann (can switch to Welterweight)
- Amir Sadollah (can switch to Welterweight)
- Thales Leites
- Georges St-Pierre
- Matt Hughes
- Matt Serra (can switch to Lightweight)
- Jon Fitch
- Karo Parisyan
- Josh Koscheck
- Diego Sanchez
- Mike Swick (can switch to Middleweight)
- Marcus Davis
- Thiago Alves
- Chris Lytle
- Ben Saunders
- Josh Burkman
- Kyle Bradley
- Matt Arroyo
- Anthony Johnson
- BJ Penn (can switch to Welterweight)
- Sean Sherk (can switch to Welterweight)
- Kenny Florian
- Roger Huerta
- Joe Stevenson
- Mac Danzig
- Nathan Diaz
- Spencer Fisher
- Tyson Griffin
- Gray Maynard
- Thiago Tavares
- Joe Lauzon
- Rich Clementi
- Mark Bocek
- Hermes Franca
- Frank Edgar
- Efrain Escudero (downloadable content — GameStop exclusive)
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well it appears some fighters sold there soul to Zuffa a while back.
Andrei Arlovski
Mirko Crocop
Fabricio Werdum
Tim Sylvia
are four names i did NOT expect to see in the game. im gonna laugh if they make them the four worst fighters in the game just as a big f*ck you to them.
and i hope they dont think im gonna pay for Bader and Efrain later on down the road because they’ll have to do better then that to get my microsoft points lol.
I noticed that too RJ, they made it, but Randy didnt hehe. Im hoping they will have all kinds of downloadable guys later on, Dana, Frank Fertita, maybe some hall of famers, etc..
yeah i just noticed no Randy and no Patrick Cote WTF!?!?!
I’m sure Randy Couture isn’t in there because of all the contract stuff he’s gone through with Zuffa in the past 2 years. I’m sure when he came back to fight Tim the first time that he renegotiated all that stuff and kept ownership of his likeness. That was one of the big issues he had with Zuffa at the time anyways.
So my guess is he didnt grant Zuffa full ownership of his likeness just for the video game and won’t be in it at all.
yeah your most likely bang on with the likeness rights and such, it just sucks that one of the top heavyweight AND one of the top middleweight will be missing from the game. oh well i guess you cant have everything you want right? as long as we get a good MMA game i’ll be happy and from what ive seen it looks good to me. on a side note some other things ive read about the game, fighters WILL be bound to there weightclasses (except the ones noted above) so there will be no BJ Penn vs. Brock Lesnar in ANY game mode. also you’ll be able to make your created fight have cauliflower ears, and even determine how much ear damage he has lol. i hear there will also be a demo coming to XBox 360 soon (i dont know about PS3) so keep your ears and eyes open.
im not sure if they are gonna do a lot of downloadable guys, i think they wanna do a new game ever year so they’ll probably save the new guys for new games BUT if they dont do a new one every year i hope they do update the roster now and then.
I was glad to see McFedries in there, but ya, Cote should have been there man.. i dunno what happened there….
the pitbulllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!1
damn i was hoping for Dan Hardy on the game hopefully he is a DL character
I think 340 ms points for bader and efrain is retarded. With the terrible online gameplay I am going to hold out on ufc 2010 undisputed. I love mma but I hate the tactics of the UFC, why they never updated the game is beyond me. I mean, Activision or THQ or whoever it is should be working hard with the UFC to bringing the fighters we want to see with even updated stats/abilities! Instead it’s actually a very unthrilling game. With the way ufc 2009 has been I’m really looking forward to the release of EA Sports MMA, regardless if they shat on MMA when the UFC came to them, I think EA sports is awesome and will have done a great job even without the ufc license. They should make the fighters creatable and make users able to upload created fighters so others can download them(of course not with their real name) … they’ve done it countless times before with nba and other sports.