Bellator MMA and Spike TV Officially Announce “Fight Master” Reality Show
By Chris Leslie on February 5, 2013
Bellator MMA officially announced their plans for their reality show today with a press conference and release detailing the plans for the upcoming show. Both Spike and BellatorMMA used the press time to stress how the programming would be different than The Ultimate Fighter. The network also announced another program involving the recently signed Randy Couture.
The reality show, dubbed “Fight Master: Bellator MMA,” is expected to launch this summer at a currently undisclosed time. The show will feature 32 welterweights, divided into four camps, and will look focus on the training the fighters receive. The camps will be lead by Couture, Greg Jackson, Frank Shamrock, and former Bellator featherweight champion Joe Warren.
The fighter that wins the tournament will be thrown directly into the fire this Fall when they take part in the welterweight tournament.
While MMA reality tournaments have been done in the past, the companies were both quick to point out that the focus of the show will be training and developing fighters, as opposed to being about the fighters “being drunk and acting like idiots.”
The company has announced a three episode run of a Bar Rescue type show lead by Randy Couture. The show will involve the UFC Hall of Famer traveling to different struggling gyms and trying to turn them around. Spike TV also indicated that Couture could become a part of various non-MMA related programming as well.
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I’m definitely tired of watching drunk idiots. It will be great to see Randy and Frank coaching, and actually watching a show that focuses directly on the fighters and their training, as opposed to the drama between two coaches that leads up to a fight.
At least, it sounds like that’s what they will do…
While I’m not at all opposed to the show, Fight Master is a terrible name.
Agreed, sounds like a Josh Barnett wrestling name…
^^HA!^^
I gotta agree. Then again Bellator would not be my first choice for the name of an mma orginization either.
Funny that 3 of the 4 coaches are on Dana White’s most hated list. I have a lot of interest in seeing the different training techniques from strength/endurance/flexibility to the specific disciplines and how the different coaches approach it. Sounds great.
I like how they put down The Ultimate Fighter when it was Spike that developed the show for the UFC…
I’m a fan of MMA in general and any good MMA programming is welcomed by me! But Bellator is started to remind me of WCW back in the day towards WWE. They trying way to hard to compete. Also this show concept and the name is just a turn off . Unless this is a show for very new and fresh competitors the show makes no sense! Oh ok I’m going to fight in this tournament to earn a spot in another tournament with the other guys in the tournament just getting their spots handed to them!
Like wtf lol what happens when the show winner gets ko’d in the first round? Idk show makes no sense. Just Spikes/Viacom’s way of taking a shot at UFC once again!
I agree with what your saying, but I think Bellator somewhat has the pulse of the fans right now. I could be wrong about that, but Bellator and Spike are both in a position to learn from the UFC’s mistakes, as well as their own past mistakes.
As I said above, I’m anxious to see a show that focuses more on the fighters and the training, and not how man doors the coaches smash, or how many shots of liquor the fighters in the house take, before picking a fight. Spike may have helped develop the concept, but I believe Dana and Co. helped it escalate to a drunken drama filled “real world” show.
Just my opinion…
Thought of a better name for the show. Cage fighter.
That name is trademarked actually.
Clearly I will not be getting that PR job at Bellator.
eh, not your fault really. There’s so many MMA apparel & Media companies now that many names are taken.