The 14th season of The Ultimate Fighter is set to debut a week from today, but this season’s fireworks have already started, mainly thanks to the antics of Jason “Mayhem” Miller.
Bleacher Report was present for a media conference call held by the UFC to promote the debut of the show.
The call felt less like a media event and more like watching (or listening) to a preview of the show since both Miller and his opposite, British star Michael Bisping, were at each other’s throats from the get-go.
“I’ll say this about Michael [Bisping],” started Miller, “he is a complex character, an individual that you could write many tomes of knowledge on.” Miller became more blunt and said, “As the season went on, I hated his guts.”
Miller then shifted his focus to what transpired during the filming of the show, saying “I definitely got under his skin, as you’ll see as the season plays out, he was quite mad…our personality clash put a damn good show on…we both have a strong personalty and they were bound to clash.”
According to Miller, it didn’t take long for the clash between him and Bisping to happen. “He fully proved himself to be a prick by week two,” he admitted.
After another series of verbal jabs in which Bisping stated that Miller was “annoying,” and “idiotic,” Miller retorted to his British opposite by saying “I think you’re way worse [of] an idiot than I am and I’m going to smash your face and choke you!”
The subject then moved onto the coaches that Bisping brought in to help train his team. Miller was not thrilled with the Brit’s choices. “His coaching staff are a lot of guys I’ve trained with back in the day and moved on because they weren’t up to par for what I needed. So that just goes to show you [Bisping’s] level of coaching staff,” Miller said.
This started a verbal scuffle in which Bisping criticized Miller for bringing on “a gay chiropractor” as one of the members of his coaching team.
When the dust settled after the conference, the only things the two adversaries could agree on were that this upcoming season would be one you don’t want to miss, and that they both hated one another. But, of course, Miller couldn’t agree with Bisping without being clever.
“We hate each other’s guts,” he said. But he then added “I can’t speak for [Bisping] because I can’t talk with that stupid accent.”
All of this trash-talk may seem controversial, but it will help the Ultimate Fighter escape the dreadful rut it’s been in for quite some time. Also, the men may dislike one another but do not harbor any ill will since as Miller eloquently put it, “there is a brotherhood among fighters, all of us.”
That brotherhood will be tested in the Ultimate Fighter house as well as in the finale on December 3, 2011, when Bisping and Miller finally meet one another.
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