TUF Ratings Dip. Damn that Unlucky Number 13!

Apparently ratings weren’t sky high for the premiere episode of TUF 13 featuring Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos. It looks like ratings were at a 1.0 with 1.5 million viewers in comparison to their all time season’s highest rating of 2.9 when Kimbo Slice was cast in TUF 10. Regardless, the PR machine himself, […]

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Apparently ratings weren’t sky high for the premiere episode of TUF 13 featuring Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos. It looks like ratings were at a 1.0 with 1.5 million viewers in comparison to their all time season’s highest rating of 2.9 when Kimbo Slice was cast in TUF 10. Regardless, the PR machine himself, Dana White took to the Underground Forum according to Fightline.com and worked his damage control with this post:

SINCE WHEN IS 1.5 MILLIONS VIEWERS BAD?
People have been saying it is dead since season 4.
Sit back and watch b—–s or don’t. TUF isnt going anywhere!!!! deal with it.

For me? I was watching the season finale of Top Chef that night. So there went my viewing but last night, I totally watched TUF 13. No, I didn’t. It was the cast reunion episode of Top Chef, but next week, Spike TV 9/8 (CST), I’m watching.

Meet the TUF 13 Cast

TUF 13 featuring Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos premieres on Spike TV tonight and below is a video introducing the 14 Welterweights. I don’t really know who any of them are but one of them may be your buddy and after the next 2 months, hopefully at least 5 of them will stay in […]

TUF 13 featuring Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos premieres on Spike TV tonight and below is a video introducing the 14 Welterweights. I don’t really know who any of them are but one of them may be your buddy and after the next 2 months, hopefully at least 5 of them will stay in our memories (and in the UFC ) for a long while. The UFC Welterweight division is pretty crowded as it is, but take a look at the video and see if you can detect a candidate to dethrone GSP

COACHES:
Team Lesnar:
Brock Lesnar
Marty Morgan
Eric Paulson
Rodrigo Medeiros
Greg Nelson
Chris “Mayhem” Manos

Team dos Santos:
Junior dos Santos
Billy Scheibe
Luiz Dorea

FIGHTERS:
Nordin “Fist of Tangier” Asrih
Dusseldorf, Germany – Pride Gym

Shamar Bailey
Indianapolis, IN – Integrated Fighting Systems

Len “The Liger” Bentley
Olympia, WA – Victory Athletics

Michael “Mick” Bowman
Liverpool, England – Wolfslair

Keon “The Black Assassin” Caldwell
Moultrie, GA – Team Reality

Chris “C-Murder” Cope
San Diego, CA – Arena MMA

Zachary Davis
Rockville, MD – Evolve / Team Lloyd Irvin

Anthony “El Cucuy” Ferguson
Ventura, CA – Knuckleheadz Boxing

Clay Harvison
Marietta, GA – X3 Sports

Myles “Fury” Jury
San Diego, CA – Victory

Ryan McGillivray
Edmonton, Alberta Canada – Legends Training Centre

Ramsey Nijem
Orem, UT – River Academy / The Pit

Charlie “Superstar” Rader
New Orleans, LA – Power MMA

Javier “Chunty Boy” Torres
Las Vegas, NV – Team Tompkins

*Props to Fightline for the TUF 13 cast information.

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The UFC Fan Expo in Toronto will feature Training and Development Sessions hosted by Chuck Liddell, BJ Penn, and Anthony Pettis. How many people do […]

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The UFC Fan Expo in Toronto will feature Training and Development Sessions hosted by Chuck Liddell, BJ Penn, and Anthony Pettis. How many people do you think are going to ask to learn the “Showtime Kick”?

UFC is releasing an “Ultimate Royce Gracie” 2 disk DVD set on May 10th. And in other Gracie news….

YouTube’s Gracie Channel shut down for illegal use of copyrighted UFC video content. Apparently, it was like 7 seconds of footage.

*UPCOMING FIGHTS THIS WEEK: Strikeforce Challengers 15 this Thursdsay, March 31st featuring headliners: Justin Wilcox vs. Rodrigo Damm and on Saturday, April 2nd, Bellator Lightweight Champion, Eddie Alvarez defends his title against Pat Curran.

TUF 13 featuring coaches, Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos premieres on Spike TV tonight.

Jon Fitch pulls out of UFC 132 rematch with BJ Penn, due to shoulder injury. *UPDATE: No one really cares.