UFC president Dana White and Roy "Big Country" Nelson were the guests on "The Ultimate Fighter 10: The Aftermath" show for Spike.com, and once again Spike TV allowed my to watch the taping of the show on Friday morning and interview White and Nelson.

White was thrilled about the massive ratings Nelson's second-round TKO over former Internet street-fighting sensation Kimbo Slice pulled in for Wednesday's episode of "The Ultimate Fighter 10" on Spike TV. The show drew 6.8 million viewers.

"I said this was a great season before the season started," White said. "I knew that Kimbo would bring a lot to the show. Never in a million years did I think we'd pull the numbers that we pulled for this thing. It was unbelievable. Yeah, I'm pumped. If you are a fight fan or you even like reality television, then I think 'The Ultimate Fighter' is one of the best most relevant shows on TV. You don't just invest 13 weeks in these guys and then they just disappear and go away. You can continue to follow their careers after, you know, like in 'American Idol.'"

White said Slice did better than he expected him to do against Nelson, a former IFL heavyweight champion with a huge advantage in experience over the former street brawler. The previews for next week's episode of "The Ultimate Fighter" have hinted that Slice might find himself back in the tournament.

"First thing, this show ain't over til it's over," White said. "Anything can happen. That's why guys stay in shape on the show and stay in the house, but after 'The Ultimate Fighter' (finished taping) I hear that Kimbo is doing two-a-days with American Top Team and he's training hard, so it's going to be interesting."

White wasn't very impressed with Nelson's performance against Slice.

"Here's the thing, I think Roy went in there and executed and did what he needed to do to win the first fight," White said. "Every guy that leaves 'The Ultimate Fighter' comes back a better fighter after they've been on that show. It's going to be interesting to see for a Roy Nelson and for a Kimbo how they come back after the season.

"Here's my big beef with Roy Nelson, you know, a lot of people know that this guy has trained at home and things like that. He needs to get with a credible team. He needs to start training with guys that can push him every day. He's obviously a talented guy. He's got talent. He just needs to train with a good camp. All the personal stuff aside that happens with me and Roy throughout the whole season, he needs to start working harder and start working with some real good guys."

Nelson said he takes everything White has to say to heart, but it didn't sound like he was going to change anything about his training.

"I don't really have a camp camp like Xtreme Couture, because right now you're still trying to figure everything out, because there are a lot of people coming out of the woodworks," Nelson said. "You always want to team yourself up with somebody who actually wants your best interests."

Nelson wasn't all that thrilled about how he was being portrayed on the show.

"I mean, they're portraying Kimbo as, you know, the sponge who wants to learn, the whole nine yards, and then they portray me as the know it all," nelson said. "But thing is I'm always the fighter that wants to improve himself. It's not that I know it all, I know what works. If it makes sense, I'm more than happy to do it. If it's just stupid, it's stupid.

"It's actually really hard to entrust that to somebody else. Sometimes they don't want what's in your best interest. In the house, my mind was playing tricks on me like when Rashad (Evans) had me fighting Kimbo. I didn't want to fight Kimbo, but he wanted me to fight Kimbo. There could be a couple of reasons. It could have been they either wanted Kimbo to eliminate me or me to eliminate Kimbo, because there are two guys from his camp on our team.

Nelson said one of the things that bothered him about the way he was being portrayed was the tongue lashing he received during the coaches' meeting on the second episode. Nelson is on Evans' team and two of Evans' training partners are also on the team, a point Nelson brought up to the coaches during the meeting which never made it onto the show.

"The week before with the coaches meeting or whatever when I was getting scolded, that was when I brought it to their attention," Nelson said. "That's when they looked at me like I had six eyeballs on my forehead. I'm like, 'It's kind of a common sense thing.'

"It's one of those things where you just take it. The thing is in the show they are going to show one side of the story. They're never going to show both sides. Everybody is always asking me, 'Did that really happen?' I'm like, 'Yeah, that happened, but that's just one side of the story.' They didn't show the whole other side where with the whole coaches meeting I actually gave them a tongue lashing just as much as they gave me one."

With Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, who is the coach opposite to Evans on the show, announcing he had quit fighting to pursue acting recently, I had to get White's latest take on the situation.

"The collateral damage that was done from that fight (Jackson vs. Evans) not happening at the end ...," White said. "You know, we plan the year out, where we're going to be, who we think can potentially fight throughout the year, because you never know who is going to win or lose, but you know who is fighting, and you know if there is a winner or a loser what you could possibly do. So, yeah, it screwed us up bad. It's just something I'm going to have to figure out. He's mad at me, I'm mad at him and we'll figure this thing out. If me and Tito (Ortiz) can work it out, anybody can.

"He's gotta come back. This is where the money is for him. Over my last 10 years of being in this business you know how many guys I've seen that were going to go into the movies? You know, there's no doubt for Rampage, this is a real role for him. I don't know how big this movie is going to be or is not going to be, but I've seen a lot of guys that thought they were going to be a part of a big movie and it ends up going straight to DVD. Who knows? I don't know. I can't predict how his movie is going to do, but I know how much money he can make here."

I went up to the shoot for The Ultimate Fighter 10 Aftermath show for Spike.com, which is hosted by TUF 7 winner/former ocregister.com blogger Amir Sadollah.

I got a chance to interview Sadollah, James McSweeney and Wes Shivers. McSweeney and Shivers talked about their opening round fight in the 16-man heavyweight tournament and about Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson and his upcoming bout against former IFL champion Roy "Big Country" Nelson, which will be featured on next week's episode on Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Spike TV.

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