Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Urijah Faber & Dominick Cruz on TUF 13

Here's the basic bits and pieces of what's going on in my head right now about the new search for TUF 13 coaches and whatnot. Eventually, maybe after both win a fight or two, a rematch needs to be made between the California Kid and the Dominator. It's a title fight between two extremely exciting fighters. However, the hype just isn't quite there yet among the casual set who may know absolutely nothing about either. So how do you hype such a fight? By giving both of them the TUF coaching reins of course! Not only can you give the guys some much-needed exposure, but they'll do their own hyping for the fight. Just think about how much people started caring about the Mir/Big Nog fight, or the Rampage/Rashad fight, or especially GSP/Koscheck because of the hype they created during their time in the house. So if either of them can get their best trash-talk on, it could sell a lot of PPVs.

However, I have a better idea than just giving them the reins now, especially since the casting call was for Welterweights and Middleweights. On the next Ultimate Fighter, make it a Flyweight-only season and make the entire show for the belt. It would be the first title fight on national television, which would be a huge media event. Even if Dana & company wanted to make it a PPV, just think of the drama around the final fight that having a tournament would create, let alone a tournament in the context of a reality show!

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