With the 28th season of The Ultimate Fighter coming to an end, we take a look at the 5 best editions of the UFC's famous reality show.
Had the fights not been as poor as they were, TUF 10 would have topped all previous seasons. Rather, it was the bantamweights and featherweights showing off their skills. There's also some decent fights and fighters in this one. After completing 15 seasons, it's time to take a look back at the best seasons of TUF, from worst to first. And they stayed glued to their television sets due to Rashad Evans and Rampage Jackson. And that wasn't the only injury that took steam away from the season. Shifting gears toward the second season of The Ultimate Fighter, it was a big dropoff from the original. Sotiropoulos was knocked out by Tommy Speer in the semifinals, and then Danzig, along with other UFC fighters in the future, mopped the floor with Speer. 15 - Skip it. After baiting Koscheck into selecting Marc Stevens by showing Koscheck that he had Stevens No. The fights were marvelous, and all John Dodson, Dennis Bermudez, Diego Brandao, John Albert and Johnny Bedford did was put on a show. It started the boom for MMA. In came the idea of having an All-American team coached by Dan Henderson take on an All-British team coached by Michael Bisping. Watch the one with the drunk French guy, it's awesome. Perhaps the best fighter on the show, Nick Ring, was forced to withdraw from the competition for a knee injury. How did the three newcomers perform Saturday? The UFC coaches for this season were welterweight and middleweight champions Matt Hughes and Rich Franklin. Bringing in fighters that have recently struggled with their careers and putting them in the same atmosphere that they've put UFC hopefuls was pure genius.
Sean Shelby's Shoes: What's next for Paulo Costa, Dominick Reyes after UFC 253 losses? With the 28th season of The Ultimate Fighter coming to an end, we take a look at the 5 best editions of the UFC's famous reality show. 1 on his list, St-Pierre picked Michael Johnson, who was thought to be the best fighter on the show. Wrong. Seriously, if you skipped out on that season for any reason, go try and watch those fights ASAP. But the fighters that would reach the finale (Johnson and Jonathan Brookins) did their fair share of laying and-praying. Watch the video embedded in the slide and you'll see why people are turned off by Evans' flamboyant behavior. Team Couture. Sonnen, in particular, showed a side to him that we hadn’t seen before – a smart, inspiring figure as opposed to the braggadocios villain we’d become used to. ... Ferguson originally appeared on The Ultimate Fighter season 13, where he steamrolled practically all competition to win the TUF Lightweight tournament. Other than the first season and maybe the fourth, this season had the most talent on the show. Thankfully they did with the 17th season, making some subtle tweaks that helped to revive the whole format, at least for a few more years. But as you know, the reason I'm able to post an article like this on a mainstream sports news site is because of the legendary scrap between Griffin and Bonnar in the finale.
TUF 1. Wait a minute, Nick Diaz has a brother and he's going to be on TUF? The likes of Uriah Hall, Kelvin Gastelum and Josh Samman thus entered the UFC with much more fanfare than the previous crop of TUF contestants had. Ever wonder why Rashad Evans gets a bad rep? With the 28th season of The Ultimate Fighter coming to an end, we take a look at the 5 best editions of the UFC's famous reality show. It never resulted to blows, but it made for some great drama. Boy oh boy, TUF 7 was interesting to say the least. It was a great idea, but it was too bad they couldn't get better American fighters. If you enjoy seeing fighters train, little interaction between the coaches, little-to-no drama in the house and some pretty entertaining fights, this was your season. From violating their own food and seeing the opposing team eat it, to Junie Browning making an absolute fool of himself, it was almost like watching Jersey Shore.