The Ultimate Fighter Season 15 Discussion Thread

[No More Sorrow]

Thought I'd get a thread up for this, the show is going to feature Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber as the two coaches they will be coaching Lightweights and Welterweights. The show debuts Live on FX on March 9th, the huge change from this season of the show compared to others is the Live Fights every Friday night. This is also the first year the UFC is going to be running two versions of the show, there's this one and there's also the first International Ultimate Fighter with the two coaches being Wanderlei Silva and Vitor Belfort they will be coaching Middleweights and Featherweights from Brazil, this Ultimate Fighter will be taped and will air on Fuel TV once the Cruz/Faber show is concluded. There's also talks of doing an Australia VS UK Ultimate fighter before the end of 2012. Just use this thread to post all of the news that comes from the shows.
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[Dale]

Will try and catch this as i've watched the last few seasons.

Some part of me thought this thread was going to be the Live Brazil one, doesn't that start soon?

 

[Deuce]

I'm going for Urijah Faber and his teamn, I'm a HUGE fan of him and I hope he dominates Cruz in every way this season. Faber has quick and powerful strikes along with durability so you know this guy means business when you step into the octagon with him. Urijah Faber ftw.

 

[The Cork]

Not gonna watch this, the Brazillian one looks way better and not really interested in Cruz/Faber again.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Will try and catch this as i've watched the last few seasons.

Some part of me thought this thread was going to be the Live Brazil one, doesn't that start soon?

I'm not sure exactly when that one starts, I'm thinking once the Cruz/Faber One is complete it starts right after it.

 

[Ben]

TUF hasn't caught my interest in awhile but with the format change I'll def check it out. Like Faber and Cruz as fighters just not big on them being coaches on here, just cause I don't see a lot of shit happening like this:



TUF Brazil doesn't air till March by the way, and last I heard it was going to be on FUEL TV

 

[Troy]

Haven't been able to get into TUF for some time, I tried with Lesnar vs. Dos Santos but it was a bit disappointing that they were so nice to each other and that there was no drama. Will try to watch from the start to see if I can get into this season.

 

[Slim]

I try to catch all of them but the Lesnar/Dos Santos one was extremely boring to watch. Very boring to watch. The Bisping/Mayhem one was at least interesting in some of the pranks done but it still kinda sucked.

Cruz/Faber might be cool cause of Faber but the one that matters is the Brazil one cause that actually features my fave fighter in Wandy and another fave in Vitor. Plus it features Brazilians which is a definite plus.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Still saying one of the best seasons of this show was the Rampage/Rashad season.

 

[No More Sorrow]

[video=youtube;fKW8j43AIuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKW8j43AIuM&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

[Ben]

The live fights will hopefully help get TUF back to it's glory, but what they really need is a breakout star to come about from it to get people to give the show some value again. The fact that there's been a lot of so so fighters winning it who never really amount to anything doesn't help things.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Roy Nelson and Ryan Bader are the most recent fighters that have come from that show who have been most succesfull i think.

But yeah, hasn't really been anybody who's made an impact in the UFC after winning or appearing on TUF in a while.

 

[No More Sorrow]

The first live season of the UFC's long-running reality series debuts March 9 on FX.

"The Ultimate Fighter 15" features 32 lightweight and welterweight UFC hopefuls who will be coached by UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and upcoming opponent Urijah Faber.

Check out the first video preview of the season, which includes 16 live elimination-round fights on next month's debut episode. If you win, you're in the "TUF" house.

"TUF 15" (which officials have dubbed "The Ultimate Fighter: LIVE") is the first to air on FOX-owned FX and the first to air live fights. All 14 previous seasons aired on the UFC's previous longtime home, Spike TV. The show has launched the careers of more than 100 UFC fighters and produced eventual champions such as Rashad Evans, Matt Serra and Forrest Griffin.

[video=youtube;1bQIz4V2OgU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1bQIz4V2OgU[/video]

 

[The Cork]

Are they showing the whole thing live, or filming the week then cutting to live fights?

 

[No More Sorrow]

Yeah they're filming each week, and cutting into live fights.