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Michael Bisping, Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller Tapped as TUF 14 Coaches


Dana White announced this afternoon that British heel Michael Bisping and American goofball Jason “Mayhem” Miller will be the coaches on the next season of The Ultimate Fighter, which will start filming soon with a cast of featherweight and bantamweight contestants.

The selection of Miller comes as a surprise, as he was already slated to fight Aaron Simpson in July, a match that now appears to be off. On the other hand, his outsized personality coupled with Bisping’s thin-skinned volatility is sure to produce the kind of excitement and interaction between the coaches that was completely lacking on TUF 13. So, good move, UFC.

Bisping was formerly a coach on TUF 9, leading British fighters Ross Pearson and James Wilks to success in the lightweight and welterweight brackets, but was later the victim of a devastating knockout at the hands of rival coach Dan Henderson. Miller has hosted three seasons of MTV’s Bully Beatdown, leading pro fighters like Jake Shields, Andrei Arlovski, and Eddie Alvarez to satisfying thrashings of untrained douchebags.


Dana White announced this afternoon that British heel Michael Bisping and American goofball Jason “Mayhem” Miller will be the coaches on the next season of The Ultimate Fighter, which will start filming soon with a cast of featherweight and bantamweight contestants.

The selection of Miller comes as a surprise, as he was already slated to fight Aaron Simpson in July, a match that now appears to be off. On the other hand, his outsized personality coupled with Bisping’s thin-skinned volatility is sure to produce the kind of excitement and interaction between the coaches that was completely lacking on TUF 13. So, good move, UFC.

Bisping was formerly a coach on TUF 9, leading British fighters Ross Pearson and James Wilks to success in the lightweight and welterweight brackets, but was later the victim of a devastating knockout at the hands of rival coach Dan Henderson. Miller has hosted three seasons of MTV’s Bully Beatdown, leading pro fighters like Jake Shields, Andrei Arlovski, and Eddie Alvarez to satisfying thrashings of untrained douchebags.

Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller, Michael Bisping to Coach ‘The Ultimate Fighter’

Filed under: UFC, NewsJason “Mayhem” Miller and Michael Bisping have been selected as the coaches of the 14th season of The Ultimate Fighter, which will begin taping this summer and air in the fall.

The selection of Bisping, who won Season 3 of The Ul…

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Jason “Mayhem” Miller and Michael Bisping have been selected as the coaches of the 14th season of The Ultimate Fighter, which will begin taping this summer and air in the fall.

The selection of Bisping, who won Season 3 of The Ultimate Fighter and previously coached on Season 9, is no surprise: Bisping is well known to the Ultimate Fighter audience and had been discussed as a likely coach for the upcoming season.

However, the news, that first appeared first on The Underground, that his opposing coach will be Miller comes as something of a surprise. Miller only recently signed with the UFC after leaving Strikeforce, and the UFC usually chooses longtime UFC veterans as the coaches of its reality show.

But Miller makes a lot of sense after Chael Sonnen, who was believed to be the UFC’s first choice to coach next season, ran into problems with the state athletic commissions in both California and Nevada. Miller is gregarious and talkative and already has experience with reality television as the host of Bully Beatdown.

Miller had been slated to fight Aaron Simpson in July, but now he’ll wait until December, when he takes on Bisping, to step into the Octagon. His fight with Bisping — and his banter with Bisping — should be entertaining, although it isn’t the middleweight No. 1 contender fight that a Sonnen-Bisping bout would have been.

Miller and Bisping are expected to coach a cast of bantamweights and featherweights in the upcoming season.

 

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