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Reminder: ‘Fight Master’ on break for holiday, watch first two episodes here

BAD MMA News — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 15:00:00 +0000

Due to the holiday, Spike TV isn’t airing an episode of “Fight Master” tonight. However, if you’ve missed the first two episodes of Bellator MMA’s new reality series, you can watch them here. The show’s 32-man welterweight tournament features head coaches Greg Jackson, Frank Shamrock, Randy Couture and Joe Warren, who draft their teams after each elimination-round fight. You can read our episode No. 1 recap and episode No. 2 recap , or watch the first two “Fight Master” episodes in their entirity below.

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Reminder: ‘Fight Master’ on break for holiday, watch first two episodes here – MMA Junkie

Fight Master: Bellator MMA TV Ratings See 26-Percent Increase in Week Two

BAD MMA News — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:30:56 +0000

Bellator ’s new reality series, Fight Master: Bellator MMA , opened to less than stellar TV ratings in its first week, but saw a marked increase for its second episode. While the premiere drew 432,000 viewers, Wednesday night’s Episode 2 improved to 545,000 viewers. That is a 26-percent increase week over week. Fight Master’s season premiere was up against the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals, so some of the increase in viewership could stem from the hockey final having finished up a few days ago. Fight Master: Bellator MMA is similar to its Spike TV predecessor, The Ultimate Fighter , but has a slightly different twist to how the teams are divvied up. Much like the singing competition The Voice the participants select their teams instead of being chosen by the coaches. The show started with 32 welterweight athletes that pair off, trying to fight their way onto the show. The winners of the fights gain the opportunity to select from one of four coaches

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Bellator Summer Series and Fight Master Open to Disappointing TV Ratings

BAD MMA News — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:17:48 +0000

Bellator and Spike TV launched the new reality series Fight Master: Bellator MMA on Wednesday night with the Bellator 96 live event serving as lead-in programming. The TV ratings for the night could only be characterized as disappointing in comparison to Bellator’s strong Season 8 showing on Spike TV. Bellator 96 drew an audience of 480,000 viewers for its two hours of live fights, while the one-hour Fight Master premiere averaged 432,000 viewers, according to Spike TV officials. To put that in perspective, Bellator 96’s audience was slightly more than half the average viewership for the promotion’s first season on Spike TV. Bellator Season 8’s live events averaged slightly less than 800,000 viewers per show. Fight Master ’s 432,000 viewers on Spike was well below the final season of its counterpart’s run on the network. The Ultimate Fighter wrapped its run on Spike averaging 1.5 million viewers per episode. Bellator 96 and Fight Master did have significant hurdles to overcome

Bellator Summer Series and Fight Master Open to Disappointing TV Ratings – MMA Weekly

Fight Master: Bellator MMA Reality Series Kicked Off Wednesday Night on Spike TV

BAD MMA News — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:48:12 +0000

Bellator MMA launched its new reality series on Wednesday night, following promotion’s first Summer Series live event. Fight Master: Bellator MMA is similar to its Spike TV predecessor, The Ultimate Fighter, but is similar to The Voice in how the fighters are divvied up into teams. The show starts with 32 welterweight athletes that pair off, trying to fight their way onto the show. The winners of the fights gain the opportunity to select from one of four coaches. Much like The Voice, the coaches jockey for position, trying to sway fighters into selecting their respective teams.

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A reality show trainwreck, and the female fighters still dealing with the mess

BAD MMA News — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:30:00 +0000

Michelle Ould knew right away that she’d made a mistake. This was the summer of 2010, the first day of filming for the new reality TV show known as the “Ultimate Women Challenge.” Like a lot her peers in the world of women’s MMA, Ould had been hearing rumors about the show for months. She’d heard how it would pit the competitors against each other for a $50,000 grand prize, how it would air on NBC and make everyone involved into household names. She didn’t quite believe it at first. “I’d heard of it but didn’t pay too much attention,” Ould told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “But when I heard Kaitlin [Young] and a couple other girls I respected were going to be on it, I thought, sure

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A reality show trainwreck, and the female fighters still dealing with the mess – MMA Junkie