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which tuf produced the best fighters

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#1 · (Edited)
so as the title says which tuff has been the best?

I would have to say 2 with 1 being a close 2ed
 
#2 ·
Well TUF 1 produced the LHW champ and that is the UFC's top divisions arguably, it also gave use Ken FLo and Diego and KOs who are title contenders Swick was a MW title contender for a while too. Leben is a solid fighter or would be if he can sort himself out so.

2 is close in realm of talent but the law of diminishing returns as well and trurly kicked in with regards to TUF
 
#3 ·
Well TUF 1 produced the LHW champ and that is the UFC's top divisions arguably, it also gave use Ken FLo and Diego and KOs who are title contenders Swick was a MW title contender for a while too. Leben is a solid fighter or would be if he can sort himself out so.

2 is close in realm of talent but the law of diminishing returns as well and truly kicked in with regards to TUF
 
#5 ·
1 easily, its really not even close. There is like 1-2 good guys per other seasons, out from season 1's cast like half of the fighers ended up fighting in ufc atleast once (most are even highly ranked on their divisions now).
 
#8 ·
Rashad came from the second one.

The first two were the best. keith and rashad are probably the best that came from the second one. forest mike and ken flow came frome the first. leban and diago I am not too impressed with.

if rashad beats forest then I will probably still say tuf 2 was the best but I guess 1 produced more top fighters.
 
#9 · (Edited)
Although its def season 1 or 2 (yes i like to sit on fences) TUF,3 was ridiculously weak and 4 was the the comeback, so most were never really going to reach the top.

But i dont think the guys from the seasons after that have had a chance to really grow as fighters yet. It was quite a while after season 1 and 2 that we really started to see those guys reach the top of their divisions. I mean forrest only became a true contender when he beat shogun, last year. Same with JArdine and Chuck. Rashad was nowhere near the top until he KO'd Chuck.
So in a few years i reckon alot of the lightweight series guys (think that was tuf 5) will really be pushing the top of their division. Guys like Maynard,Lauzon and Diaz, not a big fan of Manny but maybe him too.(haven't fogotten Emerson, its just unfair to class him amongst the other contestants.)
 
#10 ·
i believe that TUF 1 produced the best fighters as most of you have previously said, there are many reasons why this is true. Indeed the first season has produced many fighters that are now top contenders but i think it is mostly becuase theas the sport was still really on the rise as the first season was in the process. Forrest Griffin is a great champion and a tough competitor as well as a coach on the previous season. Ever since the first TUF he has been extremly popular, but it wasnt just the winners of TUF's first season that are recongnized but almost all of the fighters on TUF's first season are the heart and soul of resent day UFC, they are all huge names and great fighters... dreamcometrue
 
#11 ·
Does anyone else think that maybe the UFC was actually trying to bring in a few talented fighters from each of the first two seasons,whereas in seasons three and up they really just wanted to bring in good tv personalities/drama queens? The comeback season may have been an exception to this...
 
#12 ·
It's pretty hard to compare the early seasons with the more recent ones. Fighters like Forrest, Rashad, Kos, and KenFlo have had years to develop their skills and become what they are today. Would you have ever thought Forrest and Rashad would be fighting each other in a title fight judging by their TUF performances? It's pretty early, but I think TUF 5 and TUF 8 contestants will prove to be some of the better fighters to compete on the show. Still, I have to say TUF 1 was the best, as it did give us Forrest, Diego, KenFlo, Kos, and Leben.
 
#15 ·
How can you put 8 at or near the bottom? All of the final 4 LHWs should have a future in the UFC and Efrain and Phillipe will both end up in the UFC. To put this season below season 3, whose best fighters were Bisping, Hammil, Grove (his hype train crashed pretty hard), and Herman, is kinda weird.
 
#14 ·
Any season without lightweights, I dont understand why the UFC doesnt use the heavier weight classes, the thing with using the LW's is alot of the great talent that has came out of TUF has moved up in weight to compete on the show, they should never do TUF with LW's again the best LW's could make the show at WW.
 
#18 ·
Agreed.

Another thing I don't get is the lack of HW seasons. HW division is weakest by far, and the only HW season they did coughed out 2 HWs (Rashad and Jardine) who both dropped down to LHW.
I want HW season with guys that wont drop down to lhw instantly. Either all HW or HW + WW -cast would do it, would produce couple LWs too most likely like you said.
 
#17 ·
Season 1 and Season 5 where the best no doubt.

Season 2 kinda blew. I mean Joe Stevenson did well, Rashad and Jardine have done well but other then that it's basically just Marcus Davis.

3 fighters isn't that good.

I mean season 1 had Forrest, Diego, Florian,and Koscheck who are all contenders at their divisions. Swick, Leben, Bonnar, Quarry all those guys are legit MMA fighters.
 
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