Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] for details on how your site can join the MMA Link Club…
– BJ Penn: The UFC Forced Me to Say Things About Nick Diaz (MMA Mania)
– Jason “Mayhem” Miller Explains Alleged Assault on Sister (5thRound)
– The Truth About Fighters and Sponsors (MMA Fighting)
– Strikeforce Ratings Way Down for ‘Barnett vs. Kharitonov’ (MMA Payout)
– Roger Ebert Reviews New MMA Movie, “Warrior” (TheFightNerd)
– Rich Franklin Done for 2011 With Torn Shoulder Labrum (Five Ounces of Pain)
– Photo Report: Alexander Shlemenko Training With Michael Bisping for Bellator 50 (LowKick)
– Rampage Jackson Wants His UFC/PRIDE Unified Light Heavyweight Belt Back (MMA Convert)
Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] for details on how your site can join the MMA Link Club…
– BJ Penn: The UFC Forced Me to Say Things About Nick Diaz (MMA Mania)
– Jason “Mayhem” Miller Explains Alleged Assault on Sister (5thRound)
– The Truth About Fighters and Sponsors (MMA Fighting)
– Strikeforce Ratings Way Down for ‘Barnett vs. Kharitonov’ (MMA Payout)
– Roger Ebert Reviews New MMA Movie, “Warrior” (TheFightNerd)
– Rich Franklin Done for 2011 With Torn Shoulder Labrum (Five Ounces of Pain)
– Photo Report: Alexander Shlemenko Training With Michael Bisping for Bellator 50 (LowKick)
– Rampage Jackson Wants His UFC/PRIDE Unified Light Heavyweight Belt Back (MMA Convert)
TUF 14 coach, Michael Bisping appeared on Ariel Helwani‘s The MMA Hour and may have said something relevant about Chael Sonnen, who claims he will regain a Middleweight title-shot should he defeat Brian Stann at.
TUF 14 coach, Michael Bisping appeared on Ariel Helwani‘s The MMA Hour and may have said something relevant about Chael Sonnen, who claims he will regain a Middleweight title-shot should he defeat Brian Stann at UFC 136 this October 8th. In regard to that next-in-line shot, Bisping told Helwani, “I think it’s complete bulls**t. Chael Sonnen, who just fought the champ, cheated and took steroids.” Bisping went on to say, “I think I am next in line. Ideal scenario would be beat Miller, get a title shot, win the world title.”
Now Bisping also has clear perspective understanding that, a win over Jason Miller isn’t exactly title-shot worthy. Meanwhile, Anderson Silva has a shoulder injury, which is expected to leave him out of the Octagon until sometime in 2012. Perhaps the UFC gods will plan to pit the winner of Sonnen vs. Stann against the Bisping vs. Miller winner and determine the next contender from there. Michael Bisping will face Jason “Mayhem” Miller this December 3rd after TUF 14 airs this fall.
The outspoken Sonnen has yet to tweet a response but expect something borderline logical and debatably amusing to come: here.
(Things got so bad that the two had to be kept in permanent split-screen. / Image via GalsGuide)
You guys aren’t going to believe this, but Michael Bisping and Jason Miller didn’t become best friends during the taping of The Ultimate Fighter 14. With the new season kicking off next Wednesday night, Bisping went on The MMA Hour for a little promo work, and spent a good chunk of his appearance talking about how annoying Mayhem was on set. Some notable quotes:
“[There was] a bit of friction between me and Miller, just a little bit, ups and downs. At the start of the season I thought he was an OK guy. By the end of the season I wanted to kill him. Fortunately, December 3, I’ll get that opportunity.”
“Yeah, I mean he tried to [get under my skin], unfortunately Miller’s mouth is bigger than his brain, so he didn’t do a very good job of it. He tried to do it a few times, but they were really quite pitiful…I definitely get the upper hand throughout the entire season. I’m not talking about the fights, I’m just talking about the one-on-one interaction between me and Miller. I feel he crossed the line a few times, there were a few instances that he definitely crossed the line, so come December 3rd, I’m looking forward to making him pay for his words and pay for his disrespect.”
(Things got so bad that the two had to be kept in permanent split-screen. / Image via GalsGuide)
You guys aren’t going to believe this, but Michael Bisping and Jason Miller didn’t become best friends during the taping of The Ultimate Fighter 14. With the new season kicking off next Wednesday night, Bisping went on The MMA Hour for a little promo work, and spent a good chunk of his appearance talking about how annoying Mayhem was on set. Some notable quotes:
“[There was] a bit of friction between me and Miller, just a little bit, ups and downs. At the start of the season I thought he was an OK guy. By the end of the season I wanted to kill him. Fortunately, December 3, I’ll get that opportunity.”
“Yeah, I mean he tried to [get under my skin], unfortunately Miller’s mouth is bigger than his brain, so he didn’t do a very good job of it. He tried to do it a few times, but they were really quite pitiful…I definitely get the upper hand throughout the entire season. I’m not talking about the fights, I’m just talking about the one-on-one interaction between me and Miller. I feel he crossed the line a few times, there were a few instances that he definitely crossed the line, so come December 3rd, I’m looking forward to making him pay for his words and pay for his disrespect.”
“Personally I find [the ‘Mayhem’ persona] quite annoying. Each to their own, though, I mean a lot of people find me annoying, so you know what I mean, I’ll take the rough with the smooth. He’s not a bad guy, but he just rubs me up the wrong way a little bit. As I said, not everyone’s gonna like everybody. He certainly doesn’t like me, and I don’t think I like him particularly.”
As we saw during his last TUF coaching gig opposite Dan Henderson, Michael Bisping tends to take the smallest offenses very, very personally. You can’t even call the dude pale on a tennis court without the Second Revolutionary War breaking out. Then again, if Jason Miller resorts to lame pranks like sandal-hiding and inconvenient car-parking, well, that would be kind of annoying. So who will take the inevitable heel-coach spot this season? Stay tuned…
Following his second coaching stint on The Ultimate Fighter, there were plenty of topics for Michael Bisping to talk about, including his upcoming bout with opposing coach Jason “Mayhem” Miller. Bisping was a recent guest on The MMA Hour and spoke…
Following his second coaching stint on The Ultimate Fighter, there were plenty of topics for Michael Bisping to talk about, including his upcoming bout with opposing coach Jason “Mayhem” Miller.
Bisping was a recent guest on The MMA Hour and spoke about his experience filming TUF. He said he and Miller had a few confrontations.
Overall, his lasting impression of Miller wasn’t anything positive.
“Miller’s mouth is bigger than his brain,” Bisping said.
“I definitely get the upper hand throughout the entire season. I’m not talking about the fights, I’m just talking about the one-on-one interaction with Miller.”
The Englishman has been notorious for engaging in trash-talk with his opponents as of late and has depicted himself as the all-around bad guy in the UFC.
His recent actions toward Jorge Rivera at UFC 127 only increased the negative exposure on Bisping and it is likely fans will continue to loathe him following the upcoming season.
Bisping said he wasn’t too thrilled to coach opposite Miller because he said Miller wasn’t a credible opponent.
Obviously, Bisping’s aspirations are to earn a title shot against Anderson Silva in the near future, and earning a win over Miller wouldn’t be enough to convince the UFC to reward him.
Prior to filming, Bisping said his ideal opponent would have been Chael Sonnen.
“I was a little disappointed it wasn’t Chael Sonnen,” he said.
“I think a lot of fans wanted to see that. But he had his personal problems and it wasn’t meant to be.”
But after enduring six weeks of taping, Bisping has become more familiar with Miller and is motivated to beat him and earn himself a shot at the UFC middleweight title.
“I think I am next in line. Ideal scenario would be beat Miller, get a title shot, win the world title,” he said.
Miller was arrested by the Chatham County Sheriff in North Carolina on August 7 for simple assault and false imprisonment after an incident during which he was said to have put his sister in a headlock and refused to let her leave a house party that both siblings were attending.
“I’ll just say this: my sister was not in any state to drive, and I stopped her from driving,” Miller told Ariel Helwani. “However, she was in a state to file a police report, which is now all over with. It’s all finished. It was unfounded…a Miller family experience that got out of hand.”
When pressed on whether it was truly necessary for the professional fighter to put his sister into a headlock to prevent her from driving, Miller insisted that it was.
“Look, my sister is a big girl,” he said. “She’s like 200 pounds and strong, muscle girl. I had to hold her, like, for real hold her. There’s no wrist-controlling your big sister, you know what I’m saying? You’ve got to like, hold on to her.”
Miller was arrested the day after the incident at the party, after his sister notified the Chatham County Sheriff’s office. Originally, there was concern that the 30-year-old Miller, who will appear as a coach opposite British middleweight Michael Bisping on the upcoming season of the UFC reality show The Ultimate Fighter, might have his fighting career put on hold due to legal issues.
But there was nothing to the complaint, Miller said, and he expects no further legal action on the matter, though he is “glad I did that” in order to stop his sister from driving that night, he added.
“If I had to do it all over again, I would do exactly the same thing,” Miller said.
What surprised him the most, Miller said, was how big the story became after TMZ initially reported his arrest.
“It’s funny, because I’m in the stage of my career where people care about some petty redneck drama that I got into. It’s really surreal. I had TMZ beating down my door and trying to call me about that. I was like, are you serious? I didn’t even think that was a big deal.”
Now that the matter has been settled, he can get back to focusing on the upcoming fight against his coaching counterpart on the TUF 14 Finale.
“All I’m thinking about is fighting Michael Bisping on December 3,” he said. “…That’s all I can think about.”
Miller was arrested by the Chatham County Sheriff in North Carolina on August 7 for simple assault and false imprisonment after an incident during which he was said to have put his sister in a headlock and refused to let her leave a house party that both siblings were attending.
“I’ll just say this: my sister was not in any state to drive, and I stopped her from driving,” Miller told Ariel Helwani. “However, she was in a state to file a police report, which is now all over with. It’s all finished. It was unfounded…a Miller family experience that got out of hand.”
When pressed on whether it was truly necessary for the professional fighter to put his sister into a headlock to prevent her from driving, Miller insisted that it was.
“Look, my sister is a big girl,” he said. “She’s like 200 pounds and strong, muscle girl. I had to hold her, like, for real hold her. There’s no wrist-controlling your big sister, you know what I’m saying? You’ve got to like, hold on to her.”
Miller was arrested the day after the incident at the party, after his sister notified the Chatham County Sheriff’s office. Originally, there was concern that the 30-year-old Miller, who will appear as a coach opposite British middleweight Michael Bisping on the upcoming season of the UFC reality show The Ultimate Fighter, might have his fighting career put on hold due to legal issues.
But there was nothing to the complaint, Miller said, and he expects no further legal action on the matter, though he is “glad I did that” in order to stop his sister from driving that night, he added.
“If I had to do it all over again, I would do exactly the same thing,” Miller said.
What surprised him the most, Miller said, was how big the story became after TMZ initially reported his arrest.
“It’s funny, because I’m in the stage of my career where people care about some petty redneck drama that I got into. It’s really surreal. I had TMZ beating down my door and trying to call me about that. I was like, are you serious? I didn’t even think that was a big deal.”
Now that the matter has been settled, he can get back to focusing on the upcoming fight against his coaching counterpart on the TUF 14 Finale.
“All I’m thinking about is fighting Michael Bisping on December 3,” he said. “…That’s all I can think about.”
Michael Bisping coached against Jason “Mayhem” Miller on the season of The Ultimate Fighter that was filmed this summer and will air on Spike TV this fall, and for fans of the show who enjoy seeing conflict between the coaches, Bisping has some good news: There was friction during filming between the two of them.
Bisping said on The MMA Hour that he and Miller had several encounters during the taping of the show, and he came away from them with less respect for Miller than he had before.
“Miller’s mouth is bigger than his brain,” Bisping said. “I definitely get the upper hand throughout the entire season. I’m not talking about the fights, I’m just talking about the one-on-one interaction with Miller.”
Bisping said he had hoped to coach against Chael Sonnen because he thought beating Sonnen at the end of the Ultimate Fighter season would earn him a shot at middleweight champion Anderson Silva. Instead, Sonnen failed to get licensed to fight after legal problems related to his use of testosterone and his conviction on money laundering charges, and so Miller was next up.
“I was a little disappointed it wasn’t Chael Sonnen,” Bisping said. “I think a lot of fans wanted to see that. But he had his personal problems and it wasn’t meant to be. Miller, I wasn’t as excited.”
But once he got to know Miller, Bisping said, he became excited about the possibility of fighting him.
“At the start of the season I thought he was an OK guy,” Bisping said of Miller. “By the end of the season I wanted to kill him. Fortunately, December 3 I’ll have my opportunity.”
Bisping said his biggest disappointment is that if he does beat Miller, he doesn’t think that will be enough to earn him a title shot, whereas beating Sonnen probably would have. And Bisping said he doesn’t think it’s fair that Sonnen is considered close to title contention, even though Sonnen lost to Silva and then was suspended by the California State Athletic Commission.
“I think it’s complete bulls**t,” Bisping said. “Chael Sonnen, who just fought the champ, cheated and took steroids.”
Although Bisping is preparing mostly for Miller right now, he makes clear that his ultimate goal is to earn a shot at Silva.
“I think I am next in line,” Bisping said. “Ideal scenario would be beat Miller, get a title shot, win the world title.”
Michael Bisping coached against Jason “Mayhem” Miller on the season of The Ultimate Fighter that was filmed this summer and will air on Spike TV this fall, and for fans of the show who enjoy seeing conflict between the coaches, Bisping has some good news: There was friction during filming between the two of them.
Bisping said on The MMA Hour that he and Miller had several encounters during the taping of the show, and he came away from them with less respect for Miller than he had before.
“Miller’s mouth is bigger than his brain,” Bisping said. “I definitely get the upper hand throughout the entire season. I’m not talking about the fights, I’m just talking about the one-on-one interaction with Miller.”
Bisping said he had hoped to coach against Chael Sonnen because he thought beating Sonnen at the end of the Ultimate Fighter season would earn him a shot at middleweight champion Anderson Silva. Instead, Sonnen failed to get licensed to fight after legal problems related to his use of testosterone and his conviction on money laundering charges, and so Miller was next up.
“I was a little disappointed it wasn’t Chael Sonnen,” Bisping said. “I think a lot of fans wanted to see that. But he had his personal problems and it wasn’t meant to be. Miller, I wasn’t as excited.”
But once he got to know Miller, Bisping said, he became excited about the possibility of fighting him.
“At the start of the season I thought he was an OK guy,” Bisping said of Miller. “By the end of the season I wanted to kill him. Fortunately, December 3 I’ll have my opportunity.”
Bisping said his biggest disappointment is that if he does beat Miller, he doesn’t think that will be enough to earn him a title shot, whereas beating Sonnen probably would have. And Bisping said he doesn’t think it’s fair that Sonnen is considered close to title contention, even though Sonnen lost to Silva and then was suspended by the California State Athletic Commission.
“I think it’s complete bulls**t,” Bisping said. “Chael Sonnen, who just fought the champ, cheated and took steroids.”
Although Bisping is preparing mostly for Miller right now, he makes clear that his ultimate goal is to earn a shot at Silva.
“I think I am next in line,” Bisping said. “Ideal scenario would be beat Miller, get a title shot, win the world title.”
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