TUF China is filming

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    http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2013/11/...cast-tuf-lightweight-rookie-exposure-mma-news

    TUF China follows TUF Brazil and upcoming iterations of the show in Canada, Australia, the UK, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Phillipines as spin-offs of the seminal MMA reality series. The show is called Rookie Exposure in China (LOL) and Cung Le is playing the Dana White role. I don't know who the coaches are but Mongolian Wolf seems like an obvious choice. I haven't heard of the fighters competing (lightweight) on the show but their names and pictures are included in the Bloody Elbow article. The show starts airing on December 7th but I don't know if there is any way to watch it. MMA hasn't taken off in China as it did in Japan but the market for sports is enormous and hungry. The channel the show will be on supposedly reaches three-quarters of a billion homes in China so if it takes off the possibilities in that country are great. Culturally I don't know how the viewers will view cage fighting but I'm sure the young, tuned-in people in the country know what's up. Censorship could be a hurdle.

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