by Michael David SmithWhen Josh Koscheck first agreed to take a spot on The Ultimate Fighter, the reality TV show the UFC first began showing on Spike in 2005, he didn't know what to expect. And he certainly didn't know that the show would reach its 12th season, that his own MMA career would progress to the point where he's the coach on that season, and that he'd be months away from fighting for a UFC title.
"I don't think anybody knew that it was going to take off," Koscheck said of that first season. "The UFC didn't know, Spike didn't know, no one in the media knew -- there was pretty much three web sites that covered MMA. When The Ultimate Fighter came out, after the first couple episodes the ratings were huge for the demographics they wanted and they thought they had something, and then the Finale was just off the hook with Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar fighting. That's when we knew it was for real, and now we have an opportunity to make some money as fighters." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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