The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes (2019)

Genre

reality television

Country

Australia

How it feels

This reality series follows 16 fighters from the UK and Australia as they live and train together. They compete in a tournament to earn a contract with the UFC. The coaches also fight each other at the live finale.

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What happens

The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes is the second foreign version of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)-produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. Like The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil, this version was filmed, in its entirety, outside Las Vegas, Nevada and consisted of 13 episodes with a live finale in Australia. The season tournament finale, along with the coaches fight, took place on 14 December 2012 at UFC on FX: Sotiropoulos vs. Pearson. The series was officially announced by the UFC in May 2012. The name The Smashes is a play on the 130-year-old cricket rivalry between England and Australia called "The Ashes." The UFC held open tryouts during June 2012. The casting call was for Lightweight and Welterweight fighters who are at least 21 years old and have a minimum of two wins in three professional fights. On 12 July 2012, Dana White announced that the coaches for the season would be Ross Pearson and George Sotiropoulos to represent the UK and Australia respectively. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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