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Paul Georgieff didn’t win the Ultimate Fighter Six reality show competition. But he went down the way his cousin Sam Peterson would have wanted him to: swinging.
When Georgieff agreed to join season six of the Spike TV reality show back in the spring, he had no idea what awaited him. Barely a week into the competition, Georgieff learned that Peterson, at the age of 19, had died suddenly. Instead of leaving the show, Georgieff agreed to fight Troy Mandaloniz just two days later, and then depart for the wake and funeral in Minnesota. The storybook ending would have had Georgieff scoring a sudden and decisive triumph, but reality set in. Mandaloniz knocked out the feisty Georgieff midway through the first round.
Still, the future looks bright for Georgieff, in and out of the Octagon. He’s working for his Master’s degree in engineering at the University of Wisconsin. But he’s not giving up his MMA dreams yet.
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TUF 6 Q&A: One-on-one with Paul Georgieff
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