The Contender show messed up......

[hectari]

They should have followed The ultimate fighter reality show and shown the whole fight at the end of the show instead of making it over dramatic.

It would have been way better, alot of people at work would complain about that they said we want to see for our own eyes who won those fights not some edited bullcrap.

[Eric Persson]

To bad that the fights (3x5 minuters) are way to long. The TUF should have 3x3 minute fights, the contender, i don't know. The doku and the fights separately maybe?

[hectari]

To bad that the fights (3x5 minuters) are way to long. The TUF should have 3x3 minute fights, the contender, i don't know. The doku and the fights separately maybe?

Ya that would have been better have the fight on friday and the docu on sunday so it would be a 30/30 split.

[guru]

10 million people didnt tune in each week cause they wanted to see boxing matches, if that were the case more people would watch friday night fights on espn.... it was the entire show that made it successful, the fighters, the drama, the story, etc... i loved the show and hope they dont change a thing... if i wanna see enitre fights there are already half dozen boxing shows where i can see that(HBO, showtime, etc.)

[TheEvilSaint]

To bad that the fights (3x5 minuters) are way to long. The TUF should have 3x3 minute fights, the contender, i don't know. The doku and the fights separately maybe?

i respectfully disagree.

i think its fine that the TUF has 3 5 min rounds, if it was only 3 min, the fight would be over to damn soon and would be much harder to judge and probly harder to enjoy.

as for the contender, i agree. they should show the whole fight, but i hate the fact that the contender fighters are too damn feather fisted and we would have to sit thru the whole fight with very few KDs or KOs.

[Banderivets]

/\/\/\I agree, but to be honest the TUF guys are so bad and its bery boring watching them, at least personaly.

[thekidd]

I'm sure alot of people have told this to ESPN (who is taking the show over for the 2006 season) and maybe they will show the whole fight.... overall, since the Contender didnt have great ratings last season, obviousely ESPN is gonna make alot of changes to make it more interesting... if they are smart they will completely redo the whole show to make it more intense..

[Calabrese]

i respectfully disagree.

i think its fine that the TUF has 3 5 min rounds, if it was only 3 min, the fight would be over to damn soon and would be much harder to judge and probly harder to enjoy.

as for the contender, i agree. they should show the whole fight, but i hate the fact that the contender fighters are too damn feather fisted and we would have to sit thru the whole fight with very few KDs or KOs.

Not Bonsante. He absolutely DEMOLISHED that church guy Brent.

Bonsante was a psycho in the ring. I remember he would look at his children in-between rounds and he would have a look of pure anger. I remember one of the trainers used his family as motivation.

Come to think of it, that guy was really cool. I respect him alot as a person.

[guru]

I'm sure alot of people have told this to ESPN (who is taking the show over for the 2006 season) and maybe they will show the whole fight.... overall, since the Contender didnt have great ratings last season, obviousely ESPN is gonna make alot of changes to make it more interesting... if they are smart they will completely redo the whole show to make it more intense..

it didnt have great ratings compared to cold case and the big shows it was up against, but it did have great ratings for a boxing show... it drew 4-5 million households each week, which translated to 10-15 million people... in contrast its drawing the same ratings that Martha Stewart's Aprrentice is drawing now... changing the show will lose the mainstream, non boxing fans that watch it...

[ottoevans]

naw i dont think they should show the whole fight because the majority of people who watched the show were viewing it for the drama of each fighter not whos a better boxer or not.