Ultimate Fighter 15 attempts to spice things up by airing fights live, but it all just adds up to more of the same.
All of the surrounding drama that provides the reality TV aspect of this event is still taped, edited and condensed into a 45-minute package leading up to each fight.
This is the majority of the show, and for the most part, it’s all the same from season to season. There are just different faces fueling the drama.
And make no mistake about it the drama is still going to be there. That much became clear when it came down to the selection of Chris Tickle.
Tickle wanted to be on Urijah Faber’s team, but—in retrospect—that sentiment is probably the exact thing that guaranteed he would never make it to Faber.
Dominick Cruz selected Tickle, and with that, the opening salvo was cast. There will be no shortage of drama in this season. Cruz and Faber already couldn’t stand each other, and they’re determined to drive that wedge further between them every chance they get.
And this is the vehicle, like all the seasons of The Ultimate Fighter that came before them, that will really drive and define this addition of the series and not the live fights.
The live fights are a nice touch, and it makes sense, but in the end, it adds very little.
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