An extended preview of the next season of The Ultimate Fighter. Season 10 features the heavyweights, including the introduction of Kimbo Slice to the fold, and coaches Quinton Jackson and Rashad Evans.
Kimbo Slice is in-studio to talk about the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter. In addition, a breakdown of UFC Fight Night 19 and all the latest news from around the world of Mixed Martial Arts.
Topps announces it is adding legendary brawler Kimbo Slice's first-ever autographed trading card to the highly anticipated 2009 Topps UFC trading cards. Kimbo, along with 15 other fighters from TUF (The Ultimate Fighter) 10 reality television show premiering Sept. 17 will be included... all on-card autographs and all extra content above and beyond the guaranteed hits! To coincide with the launch of TUF 10 and to include these new cards, 2009 Topps UFC trading cards will now ship Sept. 21.
UFC president Dana White is always out there pushing his product, marketing the brand. But when it comes to the tenth season of The Ultimate Fighter reality series, he went to great lengths to make it clear that he really does believe that the next season will be the best they've ever done... and he's not just selling his product.
"I don't want to sound like a promoter and like I'm trying to sell you guys on (The Ultimate Fighter) Season 10. (But) it's the best television we've ever done," he stated emphatically to small group of reporters over UFC 100 weekend.
"From the second it starts until the second we end... Andrea, she's the producer, she said to me at the end of this thing, I honestly don't know what they're gonna do. There's so many things, there's so many stories; she says we could have a 10-disk DVD set on this thing, there's just so many story lines and so much crazy (expletive) going on.
"When I say crazy (expletive), I'm not talking about guys (urinating) in fruit and stuff like that. I'm talking real television. I'm talking real good stuff."
Season 10 is dubbed "The Heavyweights" featuring 16 men in the UFC's heaviest weight class, including the controversial Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson, former IFL champion Roy Nelson, several former professional football players, colorful UFC veteran Wes Sims, among a wide assortment of personalities and skill levels.
The coaches for Season 10 are no less interesting. Former UFC light heavyweight champions Rashad Evans and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson have a healthy disdain for each other that will carry over into a December showdown following the end of the season's run on Spike TV.
Spike TV and the Ultimate Fighting Championship will officially reveal the full cast of the 10th season of The Ultimate Fighter reality series, dubbed "The Heavyweights," on Friday, July 10 at the UFC Fan Expo.
According to representatives of Spike TV all 16 fighters will be available for autographs from 11 a.m. until noon at UFC Fan Expo Booth #149 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
Aside from a load of rumored participants, the only fighter officially revealed thus far has been Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson.
Ultimate Fighter season nine is now in the books, but the UFC and Spike TV is already hitting the circuit to promote season 10, dubbed "The Ultimate Fighter: The Heavyweights," featuring Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson and 15 other heavyweight fighters. Here's the first promotional spot from Spike.
Will this be the biggest Ultimate Fighter season ever? Will Kimbo prove himself? We'll find out on September 16.
The Carmichael Dave Show talks with UFC president Dana White about bringing Kimbo Slice on for The Ultimate Fighter: The Heavyweights and what it took to secure him for the show. You might be surprised!
(Courtesy of Steve Cofield of ESPN Radio 1100 and Cagewriter.com)
UFC president Dana White's first time doing a WEC video blog. Includes a teaser about a "big deal" in L.A. that could change the UFC and MMA forever, plus a little bonus interview with Kimbo Slice as he heads into The Ultimate Fighter taping.
Kimbo Slice was sent reeling and EliteXC shuttered its doors after he was KO'd by Seth Petruzelli. Now, Kimbo will emerge with a shot at the UFC as one of the 16 heavyweight competitors on season 10 of The Ultimate Fighter: The Heavyweights.
Does Kimbo have what it takes to be The Ultimate Fighter and emerge in the UFC's heavyweight division or will he be shut down in a ratings bonanza on Spike TV?
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