“I'll never forget being at the airport once we all got out. We all went in different directions, and I turned my phone on. I've got all these messages and Facebook and everything else, and it's like, ‘Did that just happen? Did I just make it through six weeks of complete hell? And now I'm supposed to just go back to normal life?’" - Chris Cope, writing about his experience on TUF 13.
Nothing really goes back to “normal” after The Ultimate Fighter. Not Spike. Not the UFC. Certainly not the fighters.