Was it Craig Piligian hitting the Fertitta's with the idea or conversley, the Fertitta's and Dana bringing the idea to Piligian?
Bobby Lupo - Shane McMahon and it was called Tough Enough
Pretty much all of Dana's "genius" was done by WWF 10 years prior.
Vince McMahon revolutionized MMA without knowing it.
pride had their own version, went for a couple seasons
TUF was the only one that got bigger backing each time out. Tough Enough was cool but went the way of the XFL.<br />Really liked The Contender, but that withered on the vine after Sly moved on. Sugar Ray wasn't willing to put more $$ in it seems. They did a poor development job with the fighters after the show as well.
Dana also stole his "Do you want to be a fucking fighter?" speech from Triple H. The "WEC Invasion" is also classic WWE material.
Chris Champagne
PTSandman -Bobby Lupo - Shane McMahon and it was called Tough Enough
Pretty much all of Dana's "genius" was done by WWF 10 years prior.
Vince McMahon revolutionized MMA without knowing it.
This for sure. Not only were Dana and other MMA people watching it, but I'm sure the MMA fighter Purder(sp?) who was on Tough Enough got people's imaginative juices flowing.
Herring In A Fur Coat -maxmain -Herring In A Fur Coat - MTV's "The Real World".
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Isn't it true though? As far as I know the entire genre of "reality TV" / bunch of people living in a house together doing dubm shit / was originated by TRW.
I think there was a British show years before that, but the whole idea is taken from Orwell's 1984.
From an MMA stand point I would say John Lewis.
He brought the idea of MMA fighters living together and fighting one another to a rep at MTV around the time of the creation of his show World Fighting Alliance.
They even shot a "pilot" which features some of John's students include Troy "RudeBoy" Mandaloniz.
This was in late 2000 or early 2001.
From an MMA stand point John Lewis deserves credit but reality shows were extremely popular at that time so everyone was trying to do one.
jesus
Amazing that the MMA one is the only one that survived and still going.
I liked "The Contender".