Roy 'Big Country' Nelson
Upcoming season sixteen “The Ultimate Fighter” coach, UFC heavyweight Roy ‘Big Country’ Nelson revealed his assistant coaching list on Facebook on Saturday.
Nelson, a former “TUF” winner himself from season ten, announced a list of “non-UFC allowed” coaches as well as a list of “UFC allowed” coaches for the reality series.
Here are my Assistant/Guest Coaches the non-ufc coaches will be helping but not on the set because they are black, criminals, white, Olympian, Great TV … (disclaimer I have know idea, just opinion) NON-UFC ALLOWED Muhammed Lawal Kurt Angle Victor Conte
UFC ALLOWED Royce Gracie James Johnson Jeff Mayweather George St. Pierre Nick Diaz Nate Diaz Rashad Evans Forrest Griffin Chael Sonnen Jake Shields Gilbert Melendez Martin Kampmann Amir Sadollah Mike Pyle Gray Maynard Ron Frazier Anthony Brown, I am a student first, teacher second. Let give theses kids an opportunity of a life time. A UFC SUPER CAMP
With both ‘King Mo’ and Angle appearing on TNA (Spike TV), it’s certain that these two will be edited out for the most part and fans may catch glimpses of the two. Lawal will be playing a bigger role within Nelson’s camp, so it’s likely that he may be hanging around more in the background but I don’t expect him to have a microphone or for us to see him training any of the “TUF” competitors.
The new season of “TUF” begins filming this September under the new format of live fights every Friday night, so Nelson has a month to organize his coaches before the series hits the air.