(Click the link above to see the video interview.)
The final installment of the UFC"s popular "Primetime" series airs Wednesday night on Spike TV. In recent years, the promotion has used the show to hype its top fights.
The documentary-style approach to "Primetime" has certainly increased the UFC's PPV buys. It's a 30-minute infomercial complete with great training shots, interesting personalities and plenty of trash talk leading up to highly anticipated fights like Saturday's card that's anchored by the Brock Lesnar-Cain Velasquez heavyweight title bout.
Bryan Delancey is the show's field producer. Delancey and nearly a dozen crew members lived in Alexandria, Minn., where Lesnar trained for his Saturday bout against Velasquez, for nearly a month.
Delancey described a spectacular production schedule when the Star Tribune traveled to Lesnar's training camp last week.
He said the UFC has a video production system set up in Alexandria. The edited footage gets sent to New York City at 2 a.m. every day via courier service.
Delancey said the crew sometimes films something Tuesday that makes the show the following day. Wow.
If you haven't watched the first two shows, you should go to ufc.com to watch them.
