Sunday, August 16, 2009

What You Need To Know About The UFC Ultimate Fighter

By Darren Bradley

Former UFC light heavyweight champions Suga Rashad Evans and Quinton Rampage Jackson will serve as coaches for Season 10 of The Ultimate Fighter premiering Wednesday, September 16 at 10:00pm, it was announced today by Dana White, UFC President. This season will showcase 16 heavyweights, the first time this weight class has been featured on The Ultimate Fighter since Evans himself was a cast member on Season 2.

UFC Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights will feature the two fan favorites coaching the best up and coming mixed martial artists in the heavyweight division. Two finalists will square off in a live finale on December 5 in Las Vegas with the winner being declared UFC Ultimate Fighter and netting a six figure contract with the UFC.

Production on The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights begins in Las Vegas in early June and will last six weeks. The series will once again be hosted by UFC President Dana White. The tenth season of The Ultimate Fighter is going to be the most highly anticipated one in years, and with two of the greatest pound for pound fighters in the world today, both of which have personalities as large as their skill-sets, it promises to deliver, said White.

The complete lineup for the upcoming 10th season of The UFC Ultimate Fighter reality show has just been released and, to no one's surprise, Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson is headlining. In contrast to previous seasons, all 16 fighters automatically get a bed inside the TUF house this year.

UFC light heavyweight champs Rashad Evans and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson will be coaching opposite each other, pushing these aspiring heavyweights to levels they never knew existed.

In the past, The UFC Ultimate Fighter hosted two weight divisions and award deals to multiple fighters. This year, however, TUF 10 will only feature the heavyweights, and only a single six-figure contract will be awarded.

With fighters like Wes Sims and former IFL heavyweight champ Roy Nelson on the show, it certainly won't be easy for the street fighter.

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