Revelation

When were the single Episodes of TuF recorded?

I was wondering how long it takes from the recording of an episode of The Ultimate Fighter to the airing.
So lets take the current season 10 as an example:
When did the fights of the first 2 episodes take place?
And is basicly the complete season finished, the 2 finalists are determined and they are preparing for the final or what?

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They shot for a six week period in starting at the end of May or the beginning of June to the middle of July. Each episode is edited from the footage taken during those six weeks. The shooting ends with the semi final fights to determine who will fight in the final, which is part of the Ultimate Finale show in December.

There are 8 first round fight, 4 second round fights and 2 semi-final fights on the show, so 14 fights in the course of 6 weeks to determine the finalists.

The break between when they finish shooting the show and the Finale allows the fighters time to heal up from the time on the show and to have a proper camp leading into their fights on the Finale. Many of the fighters from the show who didn’t make the final will also appear on the Finale card as well.

JSatt | Sep 29, 2009

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an episode probabily repersents a few days of filming, the fights took place over the summer like julyish, and the two finalist fight at the live event on spike utlimate fighter finale heavyweights on dec 5th
kmel13 | Sep 29, 2009

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6 weeks before the first episode aired
K | Sep 29, 2009