{"id":572549,"date":"2026-03-29T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:07:08","slug":"report-jake-pauls-mvp-working-on-their-own-the-ultimate-fighter-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572549\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Jake Paul\u2019s MVP working on their own \u2018The Ultimate Fighter\u2019 clone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul\u2019s Most Valuable Promotions is set to hold their first MMA card on May 16th,<\/a> and have said they have longterm plans for the sport. That\u2019s seemingly confirmed by a new report that MVP is working on what sounds suspiciously like a new take on \u2018The Ultimate Fighter.\u2019<\/p>\n

Before it was run into the ground over 33 seasons, The Ultimate Fighter<\/a> reality show literally saved the sport of MMA in North America. As the ol\u2019 story goes, the 2005 series finale fight between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar went viral on SpikeTV, with viewership numbers doubling from 1.5 million to 3 million over the course of the bout. Those \u2018TUF noobs\u2019 liked what they saw and started buying hundreds of thousands of pay-per-views, leading to the golden age of UFC.<\/p>\n

The Ultimate Fighter is up there with Survivor as a textbook example of the power of reality TV. So it shouldn\u2019t be surprising that many MMA reality shows have come<\/a> and gone<\/a> over the years, including an insane Russian TUF clone<\/a> that featured Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier disarming contestants with knives.<\/a> Now MVP is reportedly preparing their own play on the format, according to respected Japanese MMA agent and manager Shu Hirata.<\/p>\n

\u201cA former TUF staffer has been poached by MVP, and now he\u2019s been assigned to the MMA reality show that MVP is producing next,\u201d Hirata tweeted in Japanese. \u201cSo, for the guys: from lightweight to light heavyweight; for the women: from atomweight to featherweight, 18 and up \u2026 The broadcast will be on a major platform, apparently.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, my prediction is that it\u2019s basically going to be a show to rival TUF,\u201d Hirata concluded. \u201cThis might not necessarily be about Netflix as the platform? The MVP women\u2019s boxing event airs on ESPN, so I\u2019m thinking it could be ESPN too. Either way, I figure it\u2019s shaping up to be MVP \/ Netflix \/ ESPN vs UFC \/ Paramount+.\u201d<\/p>\n

MVP heads Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian (who used to be the Chief Financial Officer for UFC before Endeavor bought it) have said the MMA space was ripe for disruption,<\/a> but many have pointed to a lack of stars outside the UFC as a stumbling point for any sustained competition. With their own TUF show, MVP may be trying to quickly generate some new stars from the ground up. Not the kind of move you make if you\u2019re only throwing a one-off MMA event before returning to boxing when Jake Paul recovers from his broken jaw.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll keep you updated as news of this MVP MMA reality show develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul\u2019s Most Valuable Promotions is set to hold their first MMA card on May 16th, and have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,250320,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-572549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-netflix-news-hub","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}