The Ultimate Fighter

[Feva]

Anyone ever watch it?  It comes on Thursday nights on Spike TV... this is the 3rd season and I'm damn near addicted to it.

16 MMA fighters from 2 different weight classes are put in a house, divided into 2 teams and are coached by 2 UFC professional fighters (This season:  Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock... who happen to hate each other, btw.)

Each week, 2 fighters are matched up to fight... the winner stays and the loser goes home.  In the end, the winners are given UFC contracts and end up fighting on the circuit.

Season 1 winners are: Forrest Griffin and Diego Sanchez.

Season 2 winners are: Rashad Evans and Joe Stevenson.

Pretty damn good show.

[NGM]

I watch it when I remember.  I am more into the pay-per-view events.  This past one that was on wasn't very good but it is a lot of fun to get drunk and watch them with your buddies. 

[mussa]

Def. a cool show.  Its just not the same without some of the new rules.  still fun to watch these guys pound the shtein out of each other.

[MURP]

I watch the show and love it.  Im liking the setup of Tito and Shamrock as the coaches.  Makes the subplot more interesting IMO.

[SD_Eagle5]

My buddy does UFC type fighting, he loves this shtein and has me watching it now.

[Feva]

I watch the show and love it.  Im liking the setup of Tito and Shamrock as the coaches.  Makes the subplot more interesting IMO.

Yeah it does.  Did you see the last episode where Tito was standing outside while Ross and Kendall were cutting weight at the gym... and Ken walks up and they don't say a word or even look at each other?

They need to just go ahead and put those two together again for the finale.


Btw... the UFC just had a PPV where Ortiz fought Forrest Griffin (season 1 winner) and Ortiz won in a close decision.  Heard it was a great fight.

[MURP]

Yeah it does.  Did you see the last episode where Tito was standing outside while Ross and Kendall were cutting weight at the gym... and Ken walks up and they don't say a word or even look at each other?

They need to just go ahead and put those two together again for the finale.

yeah that was a great scene.   The league owner (cant remember his name) has to match Tito/Ken up after the season is over.   Just a brilliant marketing move to set up the rematch this way.   Im glad Poinson is out.  That dude was annoying as shtein.

[Feva]

I kinda like Ross.  I loved the part where him and the other british guy (Mike?) were arguing about the toliet being backed up. 

He was an arrogant dude though... and the second they showed him not wanting to take anyone's advice, I knew he was gonna get stopped.

[MURP]

im interested in seeing how long this team "dagger" thing works with those two guys on opposite teams.  That could get real interesting and messed up if everyone else finds out they are giving each other info or it could be lame and turn into nothin.   

[Feva]

I'm still trying to decide how good Solomon actually is.  He looks like he's tough as hell, but Shamrock pointed out that both his and Ross' "ground game sucks"... and we all saw how bad Ross' was when Kendall ran through him.  If Solomon's is similar to Ross' he could be in trouble.  Thing is though, right after Shamrock said that about Solomon, they cut to them talking on the side where Ken's telling him that "He could win this thing"... or something like that. 

I'm looking forward to seeing him in the ring.  Kendall, the other half of "Team Dagger" turned out to be the real deal.

[NGM]

I watch the show and love it.  Im liking the setup of Tito and Shamrock as the coaches.  Makes the subplot more interesting IMO.

Yeah it does.  Did you see the last episode where Tito was standing outside while Ross and Kendall were cutting weight at the gym... and Ken walks up and they don't say a word or even look at each other?

They need to just go ahead and put those two together again for the finale.


Btw... the UFC just had a PPV where Ortiz fought Forrest Griffin (season 1 winner) and Ortiz won in a close decision.  Heard it was a great fight.

It was a great fight.  The only good fight of the pay-per-view really.  I think Griffen got jobbed, he easily won the last two rounds IMO.  You should take into account that I hate Tito Ortiz though. 

[MURP]

its funny you say that, because I grew up watching Shamrock and I always thought Tito was a punk.  Now after just a few episodes of this season I am at a complete 180.  Shamrock is a douche.  Tito seems like a pretty cool dude. 

[NGM]

its funny you say that, because I grew up watching Shamrock and I always thought Tito was a punk.  Now after just a few episodes of this season I am at a complete 180.  Shamrock is a douche.  Tito seems like a pretty cool dude. 

Its not that I don't think he is a cool dude or anything, he seems fairly normal on the show.  The headgames (or whatever you want to call them) he plays leading up to fights just annoy the shtein out of me.

[Feva]

its funny you say that, because I grew up watching Shamrock and I always thought Tito was a punk.  Now after just a few episodes of this season I am at a complete 180.  Shamrock is a douche.  Tito seems like a pretty cool dude. 

I'm the same way.  I always kinda liked Shamrock because he was really one of the first names I ever got to know associated with MMA (and partially because of his time in the WWF)... so he was cool with me.  I always thought of Ortiz as the flashy, prima donna type... but this show's already got me hoping that Ortiz kicks the shtein out of Shamrock by the time the season's over. 

Tito seems pretty down to earth and a nice guy... just a nice guy you don't want to farg with.

[MURP]

another good episode.  Michael B was impressive in victory.  Unlike previous matches, I thought it was fairly predictable that Kristian was going to lose due to poor conditioning.