How to Improve The Ultimate Fighter

How do you go about improving a stale product? Here’s my attempt at television production.

Keep in mind that these are separate idea, they aren’t going to necessarily work together in tandem.

Pick teams at random, and rotate coaches in and out, that way you get exposure for more of your already established UFC stars, and you won’t bog down title pictures. Have two weeks with Rampage and Forrest, then Anderson Silva and Rich Franklin, etc.

Instead of focusing on the social dynamic, focus on the training. Each coach is going to have different training styles, be more involved in that aspect. Show the reps, amount of weight, and other exercise specifics that will encourage people at home to get off the couch. Do it like All Access just more intensive.

These guys are athletes, have them play Basketball, Football, Baseball, for prizes that they’d be interested in, like say… Money. Show that they aren’t just other sport washouts. Record their 40-yard dash times, vertical jumps, bench press reps at a certain weight, and compare them to other athletes, or previous TUF fighters. Prove that these guys aren’t just bar room brawlers.

Two fights per episode. Streamline the bullshit, don’t focus 90% on in the house and 10% on the fight. Make the show all about the fighting.

Scrap the house, and move the show every week to different training camps. Take the guys to Militech, the Pit, BTT, etc. Hell, take them to altitude, take them to the snow, take them to blistering heat, make them brave the elements during training.

Whatever they do, they need to do it fast. The show has gotten terribly stale, it’s gotten to the point where Monday Night Raw is starting to look appealing… Nah, not really.