DC ExtraTime: MTV Reality Takes Over Jake Paul's Triller Fight Night

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Imagine... one year ago at this time in our world, we were all without the presence of sports in both this country but all around the world. Good thing all of you out there who visit this website -- and those who wanted something to take place on your TV screens -- had MTV's The Challenge to keep you company on the competition front. But a year later, things are back to normalcy when it comes to the human drama of athletic competition: NBA and NHL playoff positioning, baseball just starting, and the All-Stars spinoff on Paramount+.

When American competitive sports returned on that Mother's Day weekend last year, Champs vs. Stars competitor Michelle Waterson was part of a UFC card in Florida that gave us something to take our minds off of the pandemic. And last Saturday night, the attention of those who love a good fight were on several venues: ESPN aired a full night of UFC action as Robert Whittaker decisioned Kelvin Gastelum in the night's marquee bout, while on FOX Tony Harrison and Bryant Perrella drew their main event in a Premier Boxing Champions card.

But the nightcap to a Saturday Night Fight Night tripleheader came in a totally different and unusual setting for a sport that, once upon a time, was on the same footing as baseball as a major sport and where bouts featuring the biggest names were as anticipated as the Super Bowl or World Series. And the bout that was much more anticipated than either of its established counterparts brought into focus the poster boy of the YouTube generation and one of the most dominant competitors in his sport. And among the fight crowd at home and in person in Atlanta, a girl who is the former's ex and a three-time Challenge champ who rubbed shoulders with the ladder in the leadup to the fight that broke the Internet.

DC ExtraTime: The AYTO'er/World Series Flasher Meets Jake Paul

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Something that was commonplace in the decade that's just past us by has been of MTV Reality alums making their mark outside the channel itself - and we've followed many of their treks for you here. As far as 2019 is concerned, Angela Babicz & Nelson Thomas met on Ex On The Beach Season 2 and brought their relationship drama to the stage of Dr. Phil -- and last night they rung in the new year together in Las Vegas. There's fellow EOTB2 single Corey Brooks having his beach boxing session getting video-bombed by Bradley Cooper, housemate Nurys Mateo getting to lock lips with Cardi B. in the music video for her lead single off her last album, and so many other stories in seven years.

And then, there's Julia Rose of Are You The One? Season 4 of now four years ago, who garnered much attention in October when she took some friends out to the ballgame - but not necessarily for baseball, no less one of America's most-revered sporting events. Julia and two friends who she works with for adult entertainment company SHAGMAG, and she co-founded with along with her love & fiance, Stephen McHugh, decided to crash the 2019 World Series by flashing themselves behind home plate during the Fall Classic... and they paid the price in gaining the Pete Rose treatment from Major League Baseball: a lifetime ban from attending games.

Since what went down in Washington, D.C. a few months ago, the amount of followers to Julia's social media platforms have only increased (she did beat Cheyenne Floyd of Season 3 and Teen Mom OG to 1 million followers) as has the public attention for her. So much was the case when she received the VIP treatment at one of 2019's most-anticipated fights - and one that didn't involve full-time professional boxers: YouTube influencers KSI and Logan Paul squaring off in a rematch of their disputed majority draw in their first bout in London back in February. It came after the ladder ran into EOTB UK star turned stripper & now Challenge champ Rogan O'Connor while they both were in London for the Tuber's press tour and the filming of the War of the Worlds 2 reunion.

Julia and her friends sat ringside watching that rematch and an undercard headlined by British fighter Billy Joe Saunders at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and streamed live on DAZN, and the six-round main event in the cruiserweight division saw KSI squeak out a split decision points victory over Logan, and settled the score in the battle of the YouTubers. Outside of the ring, Julia was spotted in her Instagram story giving a kiss to a friend seated next to her... but unlike what happened that night at Nationals Park her being spotted there was the only action viewers saw of her on TV. And her getting to see one-half of the most revered & hated siblings in all of YouTube brought her to the attention of Logan's brother, and one who's now part of Team MTV himself.

DC ExtraTime: Ice Ice Baby

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This Thursday night, MTV will unleash the sequel to its American version of the channel's global phenomenon, Ex On The Beach, as another set of MTV and non-MTV reality stars will take up residency for what they think will be a memorable vacation. That is, until the news will get to them that those who will be joining them in Malibu, California are people from their past who they thought they have kissed goodbye forever and are back for revenge & a second chance. And this season will debut during the merriest time of all, and five days before Christmas.

It is the holiday season, and we are in the midst of what is by far the most lucrative season for both consumers and retailers... that means, money, money, money for the retailers and buyers. But imagine, what if you were given the opportunity to win $10,000? Cool, you might say almost 99% of the time especially with how pressed for time we are right now. But in this instance, there's a catch to this: you have to face your fears to win valuable spending money to buy those last-minute Christmas gifts with not many shopping days left until Santa Claus delivers those gifts under the tree coming the morning of December 25th.

For this story, it involves the man who’s arguably the most notorious man in all of YouTube: one-half of a set of brothers who have generated millions of followers and dollars, and even greater buzz both positively and negatively. The other person of our focus was part of the only cast in history of her original show to not win money, was part of the inaugural class of singles of the newest member of MTV's reality schedule and has more exes of those who’ve been on these shows than your usual sweetheart next door. And the challenge they are facing is having to go into a pool usually used in the summer that's freezing cold, with the last person standing winning that pile of Benjamins.

So, what happens when these two worlds collide all for the sake of Internet glory? This is what happens when they answer the question, "What would you do for Ten Grand?" The answer - three words: "Ice, Ice Baby."

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