Programming alert: Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 15 sneak preview airs TONIGHT (March 1) on FUEL TV

by Jesse Holland on Mar 1, 2012 4:51 PM EST in UFC Programming

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) officials today announced "The Ultimate Fighter Live: The Preview," a 30-minute special airing TONIGHT (March 1, 2012) at 11:30 p.m. ET on FUEL TV, featuring a sneak peek at the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 15.

TUF 15, which premiers LIVE on March 9 via the FX Channel, will feature 32 lightweight contestants vying for the coveted "six-figure contract" under the tutelage of bantamweight coaches (and division rivals) Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber.

From UFC President Dana White:

"What we are doing this season with ‘The Ultimate Fighter Live' - it's never been done with television, with sports, with anything. Basically, the reality portions of the show that you're going to see will have been shot in the last two days, so everything is real time. The most incredible part of all this is that these fights are live, every Friday night. This is revolutionary television. The Ultimate Fighter' has become so popular because, in my opinion, it's the most relevant reality show on television. It's not some reality show where you see a bunch of weirdo's on a show for a few weeks and then it's over and you never see them again. These kids are coming in and competing to try and get into the UFC and hopefully become a world champion someday."

White will co-host tonight's preview show alongside UFC commentator Jon Anik. Also getting in on the action are Cruz and Faber, who will square off for "The Dominator's" title at UFC 148 on July 7, 2012, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

But the longtime rivals aren't doing anything in "Sin City" until they satisfy their coaching duties on TUF 15, beginning with the two-hour season premiere on March 9 and then one hour every Friday night (at 10 p.m. ET) for the following 13 weeks up until the June 1 live finale.

A video of what you can expect during this upcoming live season, after the jump.

The complete TUF 15 roster right here.

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Put the preview of TUF on FUEL… Not FX like a normal person would…

by MauiWaves on Mar 1, 2012 4:53 PM EST reply actions

Anyone know?

I remember hearing that the reason the fights on the show didn’t count on the fighters records was bc they couldn’t publicise (sp?) the results. Bc obviously that would ruin the show. Does anyone know if they will count now?

by MBOW on Mar 1, 2012 6:27 PM EST up reply actions

lmao..."this video is private"?

And is Fuel owned by Fox? why promote another channels content? And who will even see this “sneak preview” on a channel nobody seems to have access to? Wtf?

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw

by Fat Daddy Doobs on Mar 1, 2012 5:44 PM EST via mobile reply actions

Exactly

It’s as if they don’t even think..

by MauiWaves on Mar 1, 2012 8:01 PM EST up reply actions

Not only am I not watching on this dumbass channel I am also going to be shooting a gun while not watching

Kiss my coinpurse, Fox.

"I swear to God, David. I'm going to fucking shoot you. I'm going to shoot you. I'm going to shoot David Haye. Listen, I'm going to physically shoot David Haye. He fucking glassed me. He glassed me. He glassed me. I'm not having it.

If David don't fight me, Adam, I'm telling you God honest truth. I'm going to physically, yeah, burn him. So you tell him I say that. His entourage ain't got nothing on my entourage."