Terrible. I'm surprised this hasn't happened before (in America -- the article says it happened after the first Survivor in Sweden). But don't worry, fight fans:

Mark Burnett, the show's executive producer, said: "Nothing changes. I'm not even going to make any edits because it's real." Mr. Burnett said that at some point, the series will make a mention of Mr. Turpin's death, probably in an onscreen message at the end of an episode.

Still, the suicide presents NBC and the show's producers with the quandary of how to deal with Mr. Turpin's death without disrupting the show. Each week two boxers are selected to fight and become the central characters in that week's episode. Mr. Turpin would thus be a principal character in at least one show and if he won his first fight and continued on the series, he would be an even more significant factor.

In the world of the future, there's a reality tv show called Suicide! whose theme revolves around self-inflicted death. Be the last person to kill yourself, win 10,000 euros. It'll be huge.