The Ultimate Fighter / UFC thread

[daveymck]

Quick question for folks more in the know but how rigged is the ultimate fighter series, not the fights but in the fighters likely to move on from the series into UFC.

Talking to my stepson and he thought I was talking crap. My feeling is that with Dana Whites knowledge and contacts he puts in 3-4 fighters that would have got into UFC anyway but gives them a platform to build a public image and following that helps make some PPV cards more broadly appealing.

Theres then another 2-3 that he thinks might get in but he is unsure about so gives a chance with low risk to the UFC, and the rest are pretty much no hopers but might make decent tv as well as giving warm up fights for the main people he expects to get through.

It seems business sense to me but as I say my stepson is an unbeliever, thoughts?