The Ultimate Fighter 8 Thoughts
Written by: TuckStyles
I have this belief about how this season of TUF was setup. With the bull that’s going on with Couture we have a belt that is ‘drifting’ in the lamest of terms. Nogueira gets the belt by default and as far as most casual fans are concerned he’s not that big of a name.
Look at the rest of the seasons and see what we had lined up for the coaches fighting at the end Chuck vs Randy, Matt vs Matt, Rampage vs Forrest. Dana set this up so that their heavyweight class will get some recognition since it’s already been pretty much shutdown with the recent promotion of Affliction and them taking a lot of the big heavyweight names in the sport.
This leads to an interesting economic ploy for the UFC to throw someone in there that knows their way around the sport. Sure, some people would’ve loved to see Brock get thrown in there, or even some other guy who isn’t that big of a name. Mir is the only real candidate in my eyes that could fill the role because most people know of him at the least, and he’s a veteran… so he won’t make an ass out of himself on the show, coaching wise that is. I’m not saying he’s not going to shoot Nogueira with a net-gun or some other ridiculous child’s play that we’re used to seeing on the show, because that’s humorous and I know that I personally enjoyed seeing that on last season’s episode.
If you break it down, it all makes sense. Create tension with the heavyweight champion and another coach who is well worthy of being a coach after fighting for so long. If there had been better options for a coach other than Mir, I’m sure that Dana would’ve thrown them in there instead but now we’re forced to see what needs to happen for the UFC instead of what we all would personally like to see.
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Mat said on Monday, August 25, 2008, 22:18
Great post TuckStyles!
sprawler said on Monday, August 25, 2008, 22:21
It’s all about selling PPV’s and that’s what Dana is good at. This is the only thing that could set up the heavyweight championship.
TuckStyles said on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 4:35
Thank you kind gentlemen. I didn’t know that we were looking for more posts that don’t follow the constraints of News and Jenna having Tito’s baby. I can definitely help a lot more in the “what I think category” because I’m sure you both have already seen that I’m opinionated and open to talk about anything. Prepare for more, maybe I’ll even start throwing a tad more humor and a little less sarcasm in there too. lol
TuckStyles said on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 4:54
Yea yeaaaaa, my first front page article. I didn’t know that we were looking for posts like this. I’ll have to start putting some more of my 2cents into some articles, to help me prep for my college papers next year.
Mat said on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 9:32
definitely… great post