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TUF fighters tearing up the house?

3K views 31 replies 18 participants last post by  HexRei 
#1 ·
Why don't they stop this crap? I guess it was entertaining the first couple of times, but now it's become cliche and really juvenile. Dana has a problem when fighters act up out in public, but when they act like total idiots on film he puts it on national TV....WTF? :dunno:
 
#2 ·
They need to take the booze away, that is the biggest problem but in all honesty Spike probably wants them drunk out of there skulls.
 
#3 ·
It's becomen like sort of a tradition.
I mean come on! The UFC gives them this awesome house with a lot of fancy stuff and they tear it up like it's shitty or something.
If i was Dana i'd make them live in a cave for a week. Then they wouldn't brake shit anymore...
 
#4 ·
This is kind of crap you see every season and it's beyond old and stale. This one of the things I hate most about TUF- if I wanted to see this crap I'd watch "Real World". This stuff blows, it's basically the same thing every season just a different jackass(es) doing it. Normally when I see the clips of them pouring drinks I change the channel because I've already seen what will happen next. :thumbsdown:​
 
#5 ·
I tivo the show.. i just fast forward through that shit. The pranks are funny though, just the house bashing is old and dumb. And judging from the next shows preview, it looks like browning went a little to far. I hear Dana saying, "You're one sick f*ck" and Dana looks very pist.
 
#7 ·
I liked Junie's fight, but he is such an ass.

I hate the drinking and the trashing the house. These dudes just piss away such a great opportunity. You train so hard, know you are going to be fighting in a matter of days, so you get plastered every other night. Just brilliant.

PLEASE take the alcohol out of the house. This kind of crap attracts the wrong kind of people to the sport... As we saw with Jesse Taylor last season.
 
#25 ·
I hate the drinking and the trashing the house. These dudes just piss away such a great opportunity. You train so hard, know you are going to be fighting in a matter of days, so you get plastered every other night. Just brilliant.
I think Spike plays up the drinking a lot in the editing process beccause it makes good ratings. Remember they record a full week of footage from probably a dozen cameras, that's got to be a few hundred hours at least that they pare down to a single 42 minute episode of which up to 1/3 could be taken up by the fight itself.

So we don't really know what they do most nights, I doubt Spike has much interest in airing the footage from the nights everyone was too well-behaved or tired to do anything but eat, talk a little, and go to bed. It may seem like they drink a lot but honestly I think few if any are getting plastered every other night.
 
#8 ·
well of course they put the alcohol in there on purpose for good tv but its also a good test because the ones who cant even handle responsible drinking, especially when ur given a great opportunity, doesn't deserve to be called the ultimate fighter. if they cant even handle alcohol then there is no way the can handle fame that comes with it
 
#9 ·
Well if you think the show is boring with alcohol and the fighters destroying the house then how entertaining do you think it would be if they took away the beer and told them they aren't allowed to trash the house? All we would have between the fights and training is a show of them sitting on there ass or cooking.
 
#10 ·
GOOD! The show would have half as long of a season run and we would see just fights on the shows. Sounds perfect!

I don't know about you guys, but I don't care about these guy's personalities. I want to judge them by their skill in the cage, not by how nice they are or how funny they are. It poisons the sport aspect IMO.

I could do without all the girlish drama.
 
#14 ·
I think that there could be some middle ground with the amount of alcohol that is obviously very handy and in plently amount whenever they want. Let them only have it on certain days or the weekends and give them a TV to watch or actually books to read. Now of course I would not expect them to show a dude quietly reading a book on his bed or a bunch of them lazing around during the day watching soap operas- terrible TV I know.​

But they set them up- just like the Real World- to have loads of alcohol and absolutely nothing to do except get drunk, play pool or have gay chicken fights in the pool outside. You have all these fighters stuck in one house with absolutely nothing to do some get tanked and, gosh, decide after 10-12 drinks to destroy things and pick fights- I'm shocked.​

Then Dana gets to come in and say "I'm f#cking disappointed in you. You are all f#cking professionals so f#cking act like it. Just like I'm sounding like a f#cking perfect example of how a f#cking professional speaks!"​

Instead of showing, not cut it out completely because the UFC does not want to lose the idiot "Me have ADHD and me likes drunken fights and explosions" American viewers, them fighting and competing while absolutely hammered they could actually show them competing more while training.​

Keep some of the drunken idiocy for those fans but stop showing it in practically every show.​
 
#17 · (Edited)
I wish they would show more training instead of the drinking. I'm not an mma fighter but I am an athlete and I would prefer to see an hour of training and fighting instead of a little fighting, a little training and a lot of bullshit. Too bad it will never be like this, because of one thing, money. On cable tv where anyone can tune in, a show where a bunch of knuckleheads are tearing a house apart and having nervous breakdowns will keep an average viewer tuned to the show as opposed to half an hour of bjj training. I was never sure, until the latest episode when they got straight to the home and opened the pantry. It was stocked with more alcohol than they could drink, even someone who doesn't drink very often is going to take advantage of that. A bunch of dudes with no ladies around, unlimited alcohol and nothing to do is begging for trouble, add to the fact that these guys are paid fighters it's only inevitable that something bad happens.
 
#18 ·
You guys need to lighten up, them getting drunk and trashing the house makes for good watching.
 
#20 ·
I can't understand what Dana and the producers think is going to happen with a fully stocked bar, no books, no TV; they can only have chicken fights (yes, gay, but hilarious) and cook for so long, then they'll start writing "is gay" all over labels, making floats out of water bottles, ripping out banisters, etc.
 
#30 ·
Its obvious what the network wants, I mean they have a closet full of alcohol and nothing to do.
 
#31 ·
I don't get why they don't use the pool and the hot tub more. It seems like the hot tub would be great after workouts.

If they can't watch TV, they should be allowed to watch DVDs, and I think it would be funny as hell watching them try to get around the inevitable "no porn" rule.
 
#32 ·
I don't get why they don't use the pool and the hot tub more. It seems like the hot tub would be great after workouts.
To be fair, they very well could. Hundreds of hours of footage per week, condensed into 42 minutes... you think they're going to waste time showing the fighters doing laps if there isn't some drama involved?
 
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