IFL Enters Reality Series Market

by: DarthMolen 1 year, 11 months, 1 week, 21 hours, 10 minutes ago 3

Seems the IFL wants in the reality TV business. Komikazee was present at the meeting where they announced this new show and they plan to bring you everything from the fighters family lives to throwing up in the sauna as they cut weight. As they described it, "We want something more real than The Ultimate Fighter".

A new television series, "International Fight League's Total Impact," which follows the athletes, coaches and personalities of the International Fight League, the world's first team-based professional mixed martial arts organization, heads this spring's new lineup on MyNetworkTV. The program will air each Monday from 8-10 p.m. across the entire MyNetworkTV network, which reaches more than 95% of U.S. homes, beginning on Monday, March 12. This marks the first regularly-scheduled over-the-air broadcast of the sport of mixed martial arts.

In the IFL, 12 five man teams (10 based in the United States, one based in Toronto and one in Tokyo) each with a world champion coach, will vie over a nine month ,11 event season for the first-ever IFL Championship. IFL cameras will cover the stories of each of the athletes both in and out of the ring, bringing fans all of the event and behind the scenes action. Segments will take viewers up close during the competition and also into the locker rooms, training routines, and home lives of this diverse set of athletes who are a part of the world's fastest growing professional and recreational sport.

Each program will be re-broadcasted on Saturdays from 8-10 p.m. local time in each market.

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