The Ultimate Fighter & It’s Popularity
The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) is a reality based TV program on Spike TV based on mixed martial artists (MMA) fighters trying to win the competition and winning a six figured contract with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
The show consists of a bunch of fighters, usually 16 plus fighters living under the roof with no contact with the outside for a few months. All they do is train and fight for the contract.
As you can imagine, having all those fighters living under one rough with nothing to occupy their time with, things tend to get a little crazy in the house which makes for good viewing,. One thing this show has also been able to do is show that the fighters are not barbaric morons. These fighters tend to be well educated people whose choose this profession for the completion and the big money.
The fighters who win a contract at the end of the season receive a large sum of cash for winning plus a contract of approx guaranteed 4 fights afterward, which gives them the potential to make a lot of money. If they win these fights they tend to continue fighting for the UFC making a very good living.
The tenth season of the Ultimate Fighter (TUF) has just finished and the popularity of the show just keeps increasing in popularity. The UFC Ultimate Fighter looks as though it has no bounds, being that the latest season of the show has blown all previous ratings records clean out of the water.
As if the debut episode of the latest season of the show breaking all previous records and pulling in 4.1million viewers wasn’t enough, yesterday’s episode averaged 5.3 million viewers, peaking at a staggering 6.1million during the actual fight between Kimbo Slice and Roy Nelson.
When UFC president Dana White said that the fight between Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson and Roy “Big Country” Nelson was the biggest fight in TUF history, he wasn’t kidding. Only time will tell whether the show can go continue to grow and better itself once more.
The Ultimate Fighter show has been a backbone of the UFC’s huge success over the last few years. The UFC in general is just getting bigger by the day with the organization just booked there first show in Australia in 2011.
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