The Ultimate Fighter Live: Team Cruz vs. Team Faber

[Pappy Knuckles]

The new season begins Friday, March 9 on FX. The premiere episode will feature 16 live fights. I'm interested to see how this live format is going to work. I'm not sure how well the fighters are going to hold up with this one running for 13 weeks. They might start going more nuts in the house than usual.

[allBthere]

Re: The Ultimate Fighter Live: Team Cruz vs. Team Faber

The new season begins Friday, March 9 on FX. The premiere episode will feature 16 live fights. I'm interested to see how this live format is going to work. I'm not sure how well the fighters are going to hold up with this one running for 13 weeks. They might start going more nuts in the house than usual.

I don't get the format,... are they going live for the fights, but afterwards going on a week delay or something? How will they edit the shows?? or would it just be 90% fights and 10% crap from the house that week? If that's the case, I'd be down because I stop watching because I don't care.

[redsrule]

Re: The Ultimate Fighter Live: Team Cruz vs. Team Faber

Should be interesting.
I think it would be better to have 6 weeks of pretaped fights for obvious issues, but it could turn out to be great.

[CueDub]

Re: The Ultimate Fighter Live: Team Cruz vs. Team Faber

I've met one of the fighters that will be on the show, Jordan Rinaldi. Hopefully he makes it.

[jfRED33]

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WAR Drew Dober

[p_rushing]

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After the fights to get into the house, it is going to be interesting. They will have to have filler until about 40 mins in and then start the fight. 2 rounds takes up 11 minutes, plus 2-3 mins for the decision. If they have a 3rd round, then they would be right up to 10PM. There really wouldn't be anyway to fill the rest of the time though if the fight ends early. They aren't going to get reactions right after the fight.

[aholbert32]

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After the fights to get into the house, it is going to be interesting. They will have to have filler until about 40 mins in and then start the fight. 2 rounds takes up 11 minutes, plus 2-3 mins for the decision. If they have a 3rd round, then they would be right up to 10PM. There really wouldn't be anyway to fill the rest of the time though if the fight ends early. They aren't going to get reactions right after the fight.

You arent factoring in commercials. An hour program is actually only 45-48 minutes. It will be more like 25-30 minutes of what happened in the house during the week and in training. 10 minutes for the fight (15 if it goes to sudden victory) and 2-3 for a decision.

[shugknight]

Re: The Ultimate Fighter Live: Team Cruz vs. Team Faber

Surprise no one is watching this?

I think it's odd how they lowered the volume on Faber, Cruz, and White's mic.

Why? It's so dead without commentary.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Damn, anybody see Justin Lawrence? The standup was looking sick, he went off on that guy he was fighting.

[jeremym480]

Re: The Ultimate Fighter Live: Team Cruz vs. Team Faber

Pretty good night of fights. This should be a really good season.

Oh and how Mazzagatti keeps a job is beyond me. He's horrible.

[redsrule]

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Damn, anybody see Justin Lawrence? The standup was looking sick, he went off on that guy he was fighting.

Very impressed.
He said he trains at Blackhouse

[p_rushing]

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The live fights and presentation was terrible. I also didn't like the 1 rd fights, but most of them were finished. They already need to get rid of the live fights, they can't keep the commentary clean so it keeps getting bleeped. If they are going to keep it live, they better bring some commentators to call the fight and just have Dana and coaches comments on the next show.

[Pappy Knuckles]

Re: The Ultimate Fighter Live: Team Cruz vs. Team Faber

Cool interview with Lawrence. Talks a bit about his Blackhouse affiliation and sparring with Anderson Silva.

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/other/article_2a34dc1e-59f2-5350-8221-e479c04b25c4.html#ixzz1ojCLH6WN

[SidVish]

Re: The Ultimate Fighter Live: Team Cruz vs. Team Faber

My stomach was turning watching that guy continue to fight with his broken toe. He's much tougher than I am. UGH.

[aholbert32]

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The live fights and presentation was terrible. I also didn't like the 1 rd fights, but most of them were finished. They already need to get rid of the live fights, they can't keep the commentary clean so it keeps getting bleeped. If they are going to keep it live, they better bring some commentators to call the fight and just have Dana and coaches comments on the next show.

They won't have commentators this season. The fights will be just like last year when it comes to presentation.