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<\/a><\/p>\nIf behind-the-scenes dirt on the skeletons in people’s closets is your thing, get ready for Season 2 of VICE TV’s “Dark Side of the Cage.”<\/p>\n
VICE Studios on Thursday announced a new seven-episode season of the show with a premiere set for Sept. 1 at 9 p.m. ET on VICE TV. The season premiere episode features UFC Hall of Famer Don Frye, “whose willingness to absorb brutality in the cage led to the fight of his life against pain and addiction.”<\/p>\n
Of particular interest to many, most likely, later in the season will be an episode featuring longtime fighter Phil Baroni, who remains in prison in Mexico on a charge of murder. A teaser video for the season shows a clip of a phone interview with Baroni and him saying his lawyers won’t be happy he did the interview.<\/p>\n
“From house-fire heroism to SWAT stand-offs to full-blown arena riots, season two of Dark Side of the Cage pulls back the curtain on MMA’s most extreme highs and devastating lows,” the official show pitch says. “‘Dark Side of the Cage’ cuts through the glamour and glory of the MMA spectacle to reveal the never-before-told stories behind the sport’s most iconic competitors, told by the fighters themselves.”<\/p>\n
Other episodes, according to VICE TV, will feature Tito Ortiz, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, Chael Sonnen and Mark Coleman. Additionally, the season “will shed new light on one of the most heated feuds in UFC history: Conor McGregor vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov.”<\/p>\n
The seven-episode season will close with a show about the rise and fall of the Affliction clothing brand, which launched a promotion to compete with the UFC, but found itself calling it quits after two events, and a third that was canceled.<\/p>\n
“The greatest fights in MMA didn’t always happen inside the cage,” VICE TV president Pete Gaffney\u00a0said in a release. “This season tells the stories behind the rivalries, controversies and unforgettable moments that helped shape modern mixed martial arts – and changed the lives of everyone involved. It’s a look at the human stories behind one of the fastest-growing sports in the world.”<\/p>\n
Check out the season’s official trailer above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 23, 2026, 7:40 p.m. ET If behind-the-scenes dirt on the skeletons in people’s closets is your thing,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[202558,64,63,786,785,315656,85,206029,206030,205669,203145,203781,222352,203147,203139,208307,202561],"class_list":["post-820070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sourcemma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsmma","tag-sstsnmma","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagmexico","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtv-shows-programs","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820070","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=820070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}