New York and New Jersey Repping Hard for TUF 22

AWESOME

The UFC has released the names of the contestants on the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter, which will be helmed by Conor McGregor and Urijah Faber as coaches and will premiere on September 9. There's a ton of foreigners on the list, but repping New York and New Jersey are Team Serra/Longo vet James Jenkins and Team Quest jiu-jitsu ace Tom Gallicchio.

Booyah!

Jenkins and Gallicchio have long and storied careers, and have pretty much done all there is to do in the Northeast circuit (Gallicchio moved out to the West Coast a while back, having choked the crap out of everyone here). All you need to know about these guys is right here, summed up into one bullet point for each:

• Tag "Jenks" once on the chin and he turns into a Terminator.
• "Da Tank" was an expert at taking opponents' backs and tapping them with chokes long before he ever got a jiu-jitsu black belt.

You can bet I'm tuning in to TUF 22 to watch these cats in action.