ultimate-fighter Stories - Cageside Seats
WWE Smackdown ratings rise again, beat out UFC on FX 1 on Jan. 20
Remember all that talk of WWE potentially moving Smackdown to a live format on Tuesday night's because it didn't want to directly compete with UFC on Friday nights once it starts its Ultimate Fighter (TUF) series on FX? Well, the two went head on this past Friday (Jan. 20, 2012) when Smackdown...
Dana White was going to put Kurt Angle on Ultimate Fighter season 10 but he didn't pass medicals
About a month ago while Kurt Angle was making the rounds promoting the movie "Warrior," his brief flirtation with mixed martial arts came up in many a conversation. Angle, being a bullshitter through and through, naturally started making some outrageous claims. Here's what he said at the time: I...
Video Rewind: The debut episode of WWE Smackdown on April 29, 1999
The WWE is apparently toying around with the idea of moving its secondary program, Smackdown, to a Tuesday night live format to avoid competition with UFC on Friday nights once it moves its Ultimate Fighter (TUF) series starting early next year. The program originally aired on Thursdays before...
WWE Smackdown ratings for live 'SuperShow' hit 3.3 million viewers on Aug. 30 on SyFy
When WWE announced it would run what they were referring to as a live Smackdown "SuperShow," it was heavily promoted as being a pay-per-view (PPV) caliber event. While that may have been the plan in theory, in practice it was quite the opposite. The show, while solid by most standards, was nothing...
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