The Contender-- S3 e3 thread

[Magra]

Any other 2+2ers watch this show? Last week's fight was a great showing by Jaidon, shows he got power. But I think Sakio will end up taking this thing down, he looks/sounds beastly.

IMO, from the previews it looks like Max fights tonight. Will be pretty excited to see him fight

[heater]

The fight clips on this show suck. The way they splice up the action, you have no idea who is actually winning. I swear they fast forward during some of the exchanges as well. It's unwatchable, imo.

[skunkworks]

I'm watching this too. Season 1 is my favorite reality show of all time; Season 2 sucked really badly though. The production quality dropped off precipitously between the two but it looks like it got better this season. We'll see how it goes.

Last week's fight was pretty entertaining.

[skunkworks]

heater, it's a reality show and it's meant for mass consumption. I'm okay with the editing since they usually put the full fights up online (or longer, less edited versions at least).

It's nice because they actually get some legitimate fighters, and the sport needs something like this to reinvigorate it (like TUF did for the UFC).

[danvh]

If you can do it without breaking board rules, where are the longer fights online? I really like the show, but the fight editing and music kills me.

[Magra]

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If you can do it without breaking board rules, where are the longer fights online? I really like the show, but the fight editing and music kills me.

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You can actually catch the fight in its entire running on ESPN2 from time to time. I've seen the first fight in full already, but not sure if there is a set time to see it. FYI, I saw it the Thursday after The Contender

[Dudd]

I can't watch this show just because of the slow-mo during the fight and the terrible closeups of D-List celebrities and the fighters girlfriends in the crowd. A boxing show could be interesting, but the way they do it is just unwatchable.