"Long overdue" - Fans react as EA Sports adds 'The Ultimate Fighter Alter Egos' featuring Rashad Evans to UFC 5

UFC 5 has released 'The Ultimate Fighter Alter Egos' in their latest video game update which includes Rashad Evans. EA Sports tips their hat to 'TUF' with these recently added player options and the official Instagram was hyping it up.

Through the account @easportsufc, Forrest Griffin and Diego Sanchez during their tenures on 'The Ultimate Fighter' were recent additions to the game along with the aforementioned Evans. 'Suga' Rashad and the TUF season two permutation of him were given boosts of +15 to his health and +21 to his striking while having -6 for his grappling.

For Griffin, his alter ego character from 'The Ultimate Fighter' has +6 to his health but -1 to his striking. In another addition from the inaugural 'TUF' season beyond Griffin, Sanchez has all boosts with +35 to his health, +34 to his striking, and +21 to his grappling.

Instagram users took to the comment section to have their say on this new crop of characters and the attribute shifts of the respective fighter permutations.

@_rvidxn_ said:

"Long overdue, especially Rashad & diego"

@real_ketogrimes stated:

"The Spike Tv pack"

@j.s.04_ quipped:

"Ok you cooked with this one"

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[Images Courtesy: @easportsufc Instagram comment section]

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UFC 5 additions and the respective TUF journies of each

UFC 5 adding in these three new options shows love to those who spent the mid-2000s bearing witness to the fitness of the modern warrior.

Looking back at their journies to tournament glory, 'Nightmare' Diego Sanchez would become a champion on 'TUF 1' when he halted Kenny Florian with a torrent of punches in the opening round of their April 2005 bout.

Griffin would become season one champion for the light heavyweights on that same TUF Finale April card in a historic outing against Stephan Bonnar. In a fight that was inducted into the hall of fame thereafter and in many ways saved the promotion, Forrest Griffin would win by way of a unanimous decision and earn a contract with the promotion along with Bonnar.

For the sophomore season of 'The Ultimate Fighter', Evans would end up winning the tournament title as a heavyweight despite carving out the majority of his subsequent legacy as a light heavyweight. Rashad Evans defeated the hulking Brad Imes by way of a split decision in November 2005 to earn his contract with the promotion.