The Ultimate Fighter

Michael DiSanto, UFC - Michael Bisping made no bones about the fact that he wanted Dan Henderson to defeat Rich Franklin when the two fought to determine who would coach opposite Bisping during the ninth season of The Ultimate Fighter. He has openly questioned Hendo's age and doesn't shy a...

Michael 'The Count' Bisping - I am writing this from my hotel room in Las Vegas, just a couple of days away from the TUF 9 finale. I was out doing PR work at UFC 99 in Germany last weekend, so hence this blog, the last in the series ladies and gentlemen, will cover the last two episodes of TUF 9 and th...

Mike Russell, UFC - American comedic actor Oscar Levant once quipped, "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."Those who don't know Diego Sanchez beyond what they've seen of him on TV or read about him in magazines or on the Internet might very well say he too...

By MMAmania It’s perhaps not the match up that most fans expected, especially when UFC President Dana White revealed over the weekend that Quinton “Rampage” Jackson would be the first to challenge Machida for his newly-won world title. But that all went out the window a few days later when Jackson app...

By Kris Karkoski The Ultimate Fighter 10 will begin taping on June 1 before debuting on Spike TV on September 16 following UFC Fight Night 19. Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com as we’ll pass along the latest The Ultimate Fighter 10 news as it becomes available. Pictured: Quinton Jackson and Rashad Evans]

By Jesse Holland Episode nine of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 9 gets underway and Coach Dan Henderson breaks the news to Team USA that Jason Pierce went limp and won’t be fighting Dave Faulkner from Team UK. Dana gets called in to find a suitable replacement and interviews Mark Miller and Frank Lester. Dana has...

 CA We move on to the fight, which had a good ending but left me unimpressed with both fighters. Round one saw some lackadaisical stand up for the first minute or so and then Lawson took Dent down quickly. He tried some submission attempts but nothing was ...

 CA It's simply not for me. However, like every rule, this one has an exception and it's found in the form of The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV. I don't mean TUF is an exception to any of the pratfalls of reality programming—far from it. ...

 MN Evans emerged from 'The Ultimate Fighter' and entered the UFC as the anti-Forrest Griffin. Rashad Evans was indeed a wrestler, and a fairly decorated one at that who won a National Junior College Championship before moving on to Michigan State ...

 IN It is this purity that makes the UFC the greatest fighting event in the world — you never know what will be the best fight of the night. Three fights that were amazing were Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar at The Ultimate Fighter Season One Finale. ...

By Jesse Holland UFC Undisputed 2009 is expected to flood the market on May 19 to the pleasure of fans and gamers worldwide. It’s the first video game for the promotion since Ultimate Fighting Championship: “Sudden Impact” back in 2004 — five very long years.

By Jesse Holland Episode seven of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 9 gets underway with a Team UK training session and Dave Faulkner is doing the worm. Somewhere in Westbrook, Maine, Scott Garland is suing for royalties. The cameras poll some of the Brits and they all concur that Dave can win it all because he excel...

 CA - John Shubert by John Shubert (Scribe) It was a great two-fight episode this week on TUF. The show jumped right into the action as the next fight was announced between Andre Winner and Santino DeFranco. There were the requisite training montages. ...

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This is like a lottery ticket," UFC matchmaker Joe Silva told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "These guys know that this can bring them fame and everything that goes with it." The would-be reality stars came from all over the United States, ...

“You Ready?? Welcome to the Ultimate Fighter, m----------rs!!” As much as I wish I could take credit for that gem, it was actually dropped by Dana White onto the UK half of The Ultimate Fighter 9 cast after he rolled into Michael Bisping’s home gym, the Wolfslair, in a crazy Benz minivan.

 LA Benton's Christian Fulgium will also slug it out. The cast member of the upcoming UFC reality show "The Ultimate Fighter" will face Macon, Ga.'s Tony Hunter, The ninth season of "The Ultimate Fighter” will begin airing on Spike TV on April 1st.

By Brian Oswald Is “The Ultimate Fighter” losing significance? This past Saturday’s “The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir” live finale scored a 1.3 rating and averaged 1.9 million viewers. TUF Winners Mike Swick vs. Thiago Alves? UFC signs fighters too

By Sean Schimling The year 2008 has brought us new UFC pay-per views, new Ultimate Fight Nights, and a new season of The Ultimate Fighter. Rashad Evans Forrest Griffin UFC 84 Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Couture Forrest Griffin vs. Quinton Jackson Part Two will focus more on Fight Nights and The Ultimate Fighter...

By Brandt DeLorenzo Brandt DeLorenzo, Josh Stein and Curtis Clontz talk about the UFC Fight for the Troops event, Pat Miletich vs. Thomas Denny, and the upcoming The Ultimate Fighter 8 Finale this Saturday. This is the twelfth episode of the MMA Opinion “Opinionated” podcast. To listen to the podcast, you may s...

By Mark Chalifoux Mike Swick will probably fight Thiago Alves before Alves is given a title shot at welterweight. That was the rumor making the rounds. It makes sense, only because St. Pierre doesn't fight until January, so it would be awhile before he would be ready to defend his title against Alves (if St. Pie...

By Nichole Lesniak I honestly don’t know if it’s because I’ve been paying such special attention to it while writing about this season, or what, but I feel like this is one of the best seasons of TUF to date. I don’t mean to say this to discredit the talent of seasons past (and the previous seasons have [...]

By Eddie Goldman On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman begins with some comments on the new college wrestling season, and the important development of the formation of the College Wrestling Network, a joint effort of several wrestling media outlets designed to expand the coverage of co...

By Jeremy Botter Jeremy Botter is the editor-in-chief of Inside Fights, a blog title covering the mixed martial arts and boxing industries. He has been writing about mixed martial arts and the professional wrestling industry for 15 years. His weekly news column, The Botterm Dollar in MMA News, is publish...

By Jesse Holland Episode nine of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 8 is now underway and the first few minutes are spent analyzing the recap of Kaplan vs. Nover, with special attention to the self-professed ‘idiotic’ gameplan of Dave Kaplan - which consisted of seeing how many Filipino fists it took to render him...

By Euan Taylor Recap of The Ultimate Fighter and the continuation of PRANK WARS! Why Chris Leben is a fucking moron WEC 35 weigh in results including an EPIC FAIL~! Casey debuts his new babysitting service The impending doom of one Mark Danger this Saturday ”In depth and balanced” political commentary

By Mike2GuysTalking Show Title: Ultimate Fighter: Week 6 Team Nogueira V. Team Mir - Fight, Fight, Kill Kill! Network: SpikeHD Reviewed By: Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking Overall Show Rating: We’re giving this initial episode review of “Ultimate Fighter” (Fall 2008) 3 out of 5 Savage Science Skullies.

By James Iannotti Not like it matters now, but Elite XC fighter Seth Petruzelli talks about the promotion “hinting” to keep his fight against Kimbo Slice this past Saturday night standing rather than to try and take the street brawler to the ground. He ended up ending the fight standing in just 14 seconds. “Th...

By Jesse Holland The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 7 Finale is set for tomorrow (June 21) LIVE from the The Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s a three-hour Spike TV special that will air at 9 p.m. ET. The mission: Forecast which fighters will leave the Octagon with their hands raised d...

By Todd Martin(noreply@blogger.com) The Ultimate Fighter has played a pivotal role in the popularity rise of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The television show has produced a host of major stars and big money fights in the past three and a half years. However, the current season of the show has produced a feeling of genera...

By Eddie Goldman On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman begins by commenting on the recent exposure of what goes on behind the scenes of UFC's "The Ultimate Fighter" show by cast member and fighter Mike Dolce. Here, once again, the true, anti-social nature of that show is laid bare. Next, we re...

By Adam Swift(noreply@blogger.com) Another factor that has to be considered is oversaturation, not just of the UFC, but MMA on TV in general. According to MMAFacts.com, over 55 hours of MMA programming airs on television each month on channels including Fox, FSN, Spike TV, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, a...

By Pete Dudek The First season of TUF featured the Light Heavyweights (186-205) and Middleweights (171-185) and was coached by Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture. Light Heavyweights: Stay tuned for part two covering the middleweights soon to follow.

By MMA Junkie As the MMA community gears up for Saturday’s UFC 79 event at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, the spotlight shines on a main event of Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre (for the UFC’s interim welterweight title), as well as a long-awaited bout between former champs Chuck Liddell a...

By Euan Taylor Topics include: Mark Danger's video debut, Euan says goodbye to a promotion, Art talks about CZW Cage Of Death 9: NO BUYS~!, Casey talks about The Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale and Wade MANS UP~! for a recap of ROH Man Up. As always, please vote for us at Podcast Alley, subscribe via iTunes, Digg u...

By Performify Complete results and additional news from the Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale can be found in the MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale archives. MMAjunkie.com has obtained ratings information for the Saturday December 8 finale for The Ultimate Fighter Season 6. Spike TV...

By Kris Karkoski Leland Roling is the editor-in-chief of MMA-Analyst.com and Joe Schmit is a continuting write at MMA-Analyst.com The Ultimate Fighter Season 6 has finally come to an end and we now have the finalized fight card for the Ultimate Fighter Finale on Saturday night from the Palms in Las Vegas, N...

By MMAmania The first wave of open tryouts for season seven of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) is set to take place at the Newark Airport Hilton Hotel in Elizabeth, N.J., on Monday, November 19 at 8 a.m. It seems UFC President Dana White and production executives for the mixed martial arts reality series that ai...

By MMA Junkie UFC and Spike TV will hold an open call for potential cast members for the upcoming seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today learned from Spike TV. Although Spike TV officials again reiterated that a weight class still hasn’t officially been deci...

By Greg Clark Perfect name for UFC 78 - Validation. This must be some sick UFC executive humour or something because all of the fighters on the card need to validate their current and future existence in the UFC for many reasons that I'm too tired to bleed from the fingertips for. Date Time: 11/17/2007 7pm PT / 10pm ET Event Type: PPV Live Location: Prudential Center, NJ Main event... and first time you'll have to pay to watch Spike TV! Rashad Evans (15-0-1) vs. Michael Bisping (15-0) Main card (on the tube): Special thanks to Dana White for proving that you really can make people pay to watch The Ultimate Fighter reality series.   [read the full post]

By UFCmania Hughes and Serra are opposing coaches on the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 6, which is set to debut on Wednesday, September 19 at 11 p.m. ET. The two will then settle their score on December 29 in a welterweight title fight. Props: TheTicket.com (Check the comments section for a q...

By UFCmania Silva later mentioned that he wants to instead fight Liddell in November. And, Liddell has mentioned that he’d like to compete in September and November. Jardine has a solid record in the Octagon (4-2) with wins over Forrest Griffin, Wilson Gouveia, Mike Whitehead and Kerry Schall.

By UFCmania For the complete TUF 5 Finale fight card click here. It’s been almost three months since episode one of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 debuted on Spike television. The season will culminate tomorrow with the TUF 5 Finale, which is set for Saturday, June 23, at The Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Neva...

UFC: MARLON SIMS VS NOAH THOMAS REMATCH TO OPEN ULTIMATE FIGHTER 5 ... NEW YORK, NY, May 29, 2007 – It’s the only fight in the history of The Ultimate Fighter that should never have happened. When The Ultimate Fighter 5 ... Ultimate Fighter 5 Finale: Marlon Sims and Noah Thomas to face off 411mania.co...

Las Vegas, Nev. - April 24, 2007 - When former UFC® Lightweight Champion Jens Pulver defeated the seemingly invincible BJ Penn in 2002, he shocked the world and proved that when it comes to the Octagon™, nothing is impossible. Since then, Penn has plotted his revenge and waited seemingly in...

By gorgeousgeorge@taggradio.com (Gorgeous George) March 03, 2007 - The guys can dish it out at night just like they can during the day. The Ultimate Fighter Season 5's latest loss Gabe Ruediger joins TAGG for some late night action. Hear Gabe's first interview since his departure from TUF 5. Listen as Trigg lays into Gabe regarding his performa...

By Rick Behnke You can put on a show, you can be in a show, or you can steal a show. And this week, before the big show - the semi-final bout - we saw glimpses of all of these aspects of drama in what was one of the better episodes this season.This week featured the long-awaited rematch between Matt Serra and Shoni...

By Vince Chan Episode two of The Ultimate Fighter 3 suffered its largest week-to-week ratings drop in the series' history. Episode three sought to prove that the blip was not a downward trend by having a great lead-in show, UFC unleashed. UFC unleashed showcased five classic fights of the legendary, Ro...

By Vince Chan Season three of The Ultimate Fighter reality series premiered tonight. Dana White, the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) is one smart guy. Tweaking the series with feuding coaches Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz may have been the smartest move to spice up the third seaso...

By Vince Chan I was looking forward to the three hour season finale tonight on SpikeTV and had mixed emotions after watching it. The action was fantastic but the show's production left much to be desired. This review will differ from previous reviews thus far. The Ultimate Fighting Championship ('UFC')...