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Got a spare $5 million? TUF house could be yours – if its unique history doesn’t bother you

You know how, when selling your house in some states, you have to reveal to potential buyers if your house is haunted? Yeah, well, seems like a similar rule should apply to houses that have hosted tapings of “The Ultimate Fighter,” especially considering what goes on during typical seasons of the UFC’s long-running reality show.

A nine-bedroom mansion that has housed past seasons of TUF is now on the market in Las Vegas, and it’s listed at just under $5 million. It also seems as if the seller is making little effort to hide its past uses, as you can clearly see the UFC pool table and enormous fighter photographs on the wall in the pictures posted online.

The description of the house on Zillow even references its TV appearances, describing it as a “residence of Hollywood legends” that is “currently airing weekly on a reality show about professional fighting.”

(Zillow)

What that somehow fails to capture is just exactly what a house like this has been through in the service of the UFC. We’re talking about people being hurled through the drywall. We’re talking about bodily fluids in rooms of the house that are typically not designated for that. We’re talking years worth of sweaty men in various states of undress getting up to all types of antics.

In other words, all the stuff that goes on in any house where the occupants have children, only in this case the kids are numerous and enormous and often drunk.

(Zillow)

As MMA Weekly pointed out, it also makes you wonder about the future of the TUF franchise. While UFC President Dana White has been cagey about what might become of the reality series once ESPN becomes the broadcast and streaming home of the UFC and its various content offerings, putting the house on the market kind of makes it seem like we might be looking at the end of an era.

To whoever shells out the millions to buy this thing, we’d just like to say that if you ever feel a strange urge to run out and harness the power of a storm, or fill the swimming pool up with plastic water bottles, or even to get drunk and shout, “let me bang bro” at the top of your lungs? Our advice is to just go with it. You wouldn’t be the first.

The Blue Corner is MMAjunkie’s blog space. We don’t take it overly seriously, and neither should you. If you come complaining to us that something you read here is not hard-hitting news, expect to have the previous sentence repeated in ALL CAPS.

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