TUF Season 10 thread

[Mr. IWS]

Anyone check out the first episode?

Rampages act is getting real old IMO. I dont like Rashad either, but his team should dominate the competition.

[SPX]

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Rampage really lost my respect after he talked shit on Forrest after the Griffin/Silva debacle. Forrest is an emotional guy. We saw that after the Jardine fight. Some guys are just that way. Don't hate.

Rashad on the other hand has actually seemed a lot classier lately, and I think the loss to Machida humbled him a bit.

I thought the first episode was pretty entertaining, but it seemed heavily scripted . . . not like other seasons. Like, it was no coincidence that Rampage really wanted Kimbo. That shit was obviously set up for entertainment purposes. I'll keep watching, though.

[zY|]

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Rampage is an absolutely abysmal coach.

[SPX]

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Rampage is an absolutely abysmal coach.

He is. I noticed that the last time he was on the show. (Can't remember what season that was.) He was terrible. No coaching skills whatsoever.

[Mr. IWS]

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Rampage is an absolutely abysmal coach.

I swear it seemed like anytime Tiki would shout something, Rampage would just repeat it.

[Mr. IWS]

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Nasty cut from episode 1

[Mr. IWS]

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Huge Ratings for the premier.

http://mmajunkie.com/news/16223/the-...-key-demos.mma

With the show seemingly on its deathbed in recent years, the UFC and Spike TV's reality series "The Ultimate Fighter" recently debuted its 10th season on Wednesday and scored the biggest ratings in series and Spike TV history.

According to Spike TV, "TUF 10," which features an eclectic mix of MMA and NFL veterans (most notably, former EliteXC headliner Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson), debuted with a whopping 4.1 million viewers.

The series' previous high was 2.8 million viewers, who tuned in for the "TUF 3" premiere in 2006.

The 4.1 million viewers (2.9 household rating) created the largest audience for a single "TUF" episode and a record for a season debut of any show in Spike TV history.

"The intriguing cast of 'The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights' has true mass appeal, and the numbers show that this sport is not just for a niche audience anymore," stated Spike TV president Kevin Kay.

Wednesday's hour-long debut, which introduced ex-UFC champs Quinton Jackson and Rashad Evans as coaches, scored big in the young-men demographics (men 18-34, M18-49, M18-24 and M25-34) and topped everything in its timeslot, including "The Jay Leno Show" and the season finale of "America's Got Talent," both of which aired on network television.

Spike TV is available in 98.6 million homes.

[SPX]

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I bet Dana and company are laughing all the way to the bank with this one. I wonder whose idea exactly it was to coerce Kimbo into signing up for TUF and I also wonder how much he's REALLY getting paid to be on the show.

Good to hear the show's getting good ratings. I personally will be tuning in every week.

[Mr. IWS]

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Kimbo vs Big Country next week!

[SPX]

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I'm pretty surprised about that. I thought for sure they would give him someone easy for his first fight.

[Mr. IWS]

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Bad matchup for Kimbo. I dont think Nelson will finish him though.

Would be SHOCKED if Kimbo won.

[Mr. IWS]

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Nice promo for the Kimbo/Big Country fight

http://mmasportsreport.com/545/sneak-pe ... roy-nelson

[Luke]

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I have never watched an episode of TUF but would like to see the Kimbo fight . What channel is it on and what day of the week?


I heard Kimbo gets KO'd in his first fight

[Mr. IWS]

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wednesday at 10 pm.

[Mr. IWS]

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All you can do is at this:

The fighter known as “Kimbo Slice” has helped deliver the strongest ratings in the 10 season history of The Ultimate Fighter series. In an interview with Mike Chiappetta from Spike TV, UFC president Dana White recently revealed that Slice requested a clause in his contract that would protect the fighter's trademark beard during his time in the TUF house.

Pranks in the TUF house have become commonplace in nearly every TUF season and Slice and his manager were concerned that someone would shave his beard while he slept. Aside from the unusual “beard protection” request that White could not guarantee, he described Slice and his manager and as very professional and likable during the contract negotiation process.

In another tale of Slice's eccentricities, his TUF 10 castmate Justin Wren described a story to the TapouT Radio show where, “He (Slice) went down to ATT to train and he got arm-barred. Kimbo doesn’t like to tap so he didn’t tap and the guy hurt his arm so he came back in there with a gun!”

Wren continued, “He felt the guy was really trying to hurt him so he said if someone is going to really try and hurt me, in my career, that is how my make money for my family, so then he said he went and got a gun and was starting to come back in there and they stopped him at the door . . . that was straight out of his mouth.”

Surely hearing that story saved helped ensure that Kimbo's beard stayed intact.