Is this finally it for “The Ultimate Fighter” reality series? The Ultimate Fighting Championship has shot down rumors of its demise, but there has been no word on Season 29. While rivalries like Joanna Jedrzejczyk-Claudia Gadelha have shown the show can be worthwhile with the right conflicts, the concept is long enough in the tooth that there is really no point in it going forward. If this does wind up being the end, at least the series goes out with a good card.
The undercard is littered with your usual mix of entertaining prospects -- ironically, many of them from Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series, which has mostly supplanted “The Ultimate Fighter” -- and there is a legitimately excellent main event, pitting one of the true rising stars at 170 pounds against an opponent who still has the potential to be a two-division champion.