De La Hoya rejected The Contender because it’s a “tough-man contest.” Oscar De La Hoya turned down NBC and Mark Burnett’s offer to star in The Contender, and then turned around and created a similar show, The Next Great Champ, which originally turned down Burnett’s show. De La Hoya says he rejected The Contender because …
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Sugar Ray Leonard joins Contender team, while MGM shops Rocky series. Boxing may soon take over home makeover shows as the most overexposed reality TV subject. Sugar Ray Leonard is joining Sylvester Stallone and The Contender team. Producer Mark Burnett says “aspiring contenders will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to train with and …
at $2 million an episode, The Contender is the most expensive reality series ever. NBC will cough up $2 million per episode for Mark Burnett, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Sylvester Stallone’s The Contender, making it the most expensive new reality TV show ever produced. An anonymous NBC exec tells the LA Times that with Burnett’s “track …
Mark Burnett is trying to sell a martial arts competition reality TV show. A competition to find “the toughest man in the world” via sports including “kung fu, judo, karate and boxing ” is Mark Burnett’s next project, according to Variety. The as-yet-unnamed show will follow the competitors Survivor-style as they get eliminated one-by-one.