When you had been hoping to get a ‘Dark Side of the Cage‘ episode about Dana White and the meteoric rise of the UFC, I’m afraid we’ve obtained some unhealthy information.
Earlier this month, VICE TV debuted its newest ‘Darkish Aspect’ collection, this time specializing in the gritty world of combined martial arts. The collection, appropriately titled Darkish Aspect of the Cage’ kicked off its 10-episode first season with the rise of yard brawler Kimbo Slice. This week, followers obtained an inside look into the profession of Diego Sanchez and his tumultuous relationship with self-described ‘guru’ Joshua Fabia.
Throughout an exclusive interview with Sportskeeda MMA, collection producer Tim Healy supplied some perception into why they opted to not characteristic White or the story of the UFC.
“No, we all know sufficient in regards to the UFC and Dana to know to not waste our time, proper? Actually, again to considered one of my unique factors is, it’s not a collection in regards to the UFC,” Healy mentioned. “There’s no avoiding the UFC, the UFC is the UFC, proper? They’re the pre-eminent promotion, and all of the fighters spent their time within the UFC and crossed paths with Dana White and the Fertittas… We didn’t attain out to Dana and we didn’t attain out to the Fertittas as a result of we weren’t telling the UFC’s story.”
Another excuse Healy determined to exclude the MMA juggernaut from the collection is that he’s already had the prospect to cowl the UFC’s emergence as a part of his ‘Darkish Aspect of the 90s’ mini-series which was additionally produced for VICE.
“My manufacturing firm, Railsplitter Photos, we produced ‘Darkish Aspect of the 90s’ for Vice, and once we had been brainstorming episodes, we got here up with let’s inform the story of the UFC,” Healy beforehand instructed MMA Preventing. “So we did a two-parter, we did 2 hours on the darkish facet of the UFC, and it did actually, very well. It was acquired very well.”
The success of his UFC two-parter is what in the end led Healy to develop ‘Darkish Aspect of the Cage.’
‘Darkish facet of the cage’ will take a more in-depth take a look at TUF
Whereas the UFC received’t be explicitly coated this season, an episode centered on the promotion’s long-running actuality TV collection, The Final Fighter, is scheduled to air on January 29.
Take a look at the complete season one lineup of episodes under:
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