Casting "The Ultimate Fighter: Celebrity Edition"

**Vince Tortelli** · Posted On: 9/12/2007 10:21pm

Let's pretend that you are Dana White. You're in your office, doing whatever an awesomely cool dude like Dana White does in his spare time when you get a call from the guys in charge of Spike TV.

"Dana, we have a great idea!" the Spike TV guy says, "As you know, the ratings for the Ultimate Fighter show are dropping a little, so we have come up with a great format to spice things up. For Season 7, all the fighters in the house are going to be celebrities! That way it will be more like the Real World and all those other reality shows out there."

As Dana White, which celebrities do you cast on the show and which two UFC fighters do you pick to coach it?

**Sam Browning** · Posted On: 9/12/2007 11:00pm

Tommie Lee and Kid Rock on different teams

**Squerlli** · Posted On: 9/12/2007 11:14pm

One team filled with popular industry rappers and the other side rock bands.
So the line up would be: Team 1
50 Cent
Lil John
Ludacris
X-zibit
(insert name of other generic trash rap artist)

Team 2:
Lead singers of Good Charlotte and Disturbed
Lead guitarist's of Yellow Card and My Chemical Romance
and then a bunch of other pussies

Now the coaches should be like... no one. Let 50 keep taking his steroids, the other sell marketing hoes of rap can keep smoking weed all day while the "hardcore" rockers can argue over who's nail polish is better. When each of them fight the cage will be dropped and 15 feet of spikes will surround the normal octagon. After that we just kill em off and... thats it. I know I'd love to see it.

**sdave** · Posted On: 9/12/2007 11:21pm

Originally Posted by Squerlli

One team filled with popular industry rappers and the other side rock bands.
So the line up would be: Team 1
50 Cent
Lil John
Ludacris
X-zibit

BET is already doing this... For realzies...

Originally Posted by zilo.com

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Originally Posted by Campbell McLaren

“We have been approached by a lot of traditional martial artists, but they’re African American martial artists who have actually been in real fights, and whose neighborhoods don’t have white suburban kids coming in paying $275 a month to study tae kwon do. With the African-American martial arts, it’s a much more practical system, less nonsense. It’s things like how to punch when you’re inside, much like JKD. Dipset’s trainer, Novell, is a proponent of that style.

“They’ll **** you up.”

**Red512S** · Posted On: 9/12/2007 11:24pm

I want to see Eminem on there just to see him cry when he gets his bell rung. That's really all I can think of right now.

Dave

**Squerlli** · Posted On: 9/13/2007 12:02am

Originally Posted by sdave

BET is already doing this... For realzies...

... You ever have those days where you just wanna jump out of a reeeeeeeeally high window? Yeah well... today just became one of those days...

**Vince Tortelli** · Posted On: 9/13/2007 1:24am

I say Wanderlei and Chuck are the coaches. I would donate a kidney to see "the Axe Murderer" coach a bunch of celebrity would be fighters.
I see it going something like this:

Wanderlei: Any questions?
Kevin Federline: Yeah, dawg, get yo shiznit out of my face, cuz I bang wit da homeboys in da hood...
(Wanderlei knees Kevin Federline in the head four times, then finishes with a soccer kick)
Wanderlei: Any more questions?

**hpr** · Posted On: 9/13/2007 1:41am

I want to see Marky Mark attend. He really seems like a badass. And if he isn't, well, it's still fun seeing him being kneed to the face ;). Also John Cusack, he is supposed to be pretty proficient in kickboxing. And of course Ed O'Neill (aka Al Bundy), since he's a BJJ brown belt already. I'd love to see him pwn young wannabe tough guys.

Hm, any other celebrities that actually know some MAs that aren't the "i non-violently grab your wrist and submit you" type ****?

**Vince Tortelli** · Posted On: 9/13/2007 1:46am

Michael Jai White is Kyokushin blackbelt, so presumably he can kick some ass in real life. I am surprised no one has suggested Joe Rogan be a competitor yet.