UFC middleweight Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller is set to make his Octagon return on Saturday night when he faces opposing TUF 14 coach Michael Bisping. Miller talks to reporter Ariel Helwani about the more “intimate” mood leading up to the bout at The Pear at the Palms in Las Vegas due to their not being any open workouts or pre-fight press conferences. ‘Mayhem’ touches further on the UFC promoting their last event on Spike, his opponent, plus much more.
UFC middleweight Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller is set to make his Octagon return on Saturday night when he faces opposing TUF 14 coach Michael Bisping. Miller talks to reporter Ariel Helwani about the more “intimate” mood leading up to the bout at The Pear at the Palms in Las Vegas due to their not being any open workouts or pre-fight press conferences. ‘Mayhem’ touches further on the UFC promoting their last event on Spike, his opponent, plus much more.
Tweet The next season of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality series is set for open tryouts December 5th in Las Vegas. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is accepting applications from lightweight and welterweight fighters for the fifteenth season of series. The former mainstay on Spike television will now make it’s broadcast debut on FX for the upcoming […]
The next season of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality series is set for open tryouts December 5th in Las Vegas.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is accepting applications from lightweight and welterweight fighters for the fifteenth season of series. The former mainstay on Spike television will now make it’s broadcast debut on FX for the upcoming season.
Currently, the fourteenth season of “TUF” is set for it’s conclusion this coming Saturday (Dec. 3), with the “TUF 14 Finale” in Las Vegas, as coaches Michael Bisping and Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller get set to square off.
Below you’ll find a link to the “TUF” application form, as well as the “requirements” for applying for the television reality series.
REQUIRMENTS:
1. All applicants must be at least 21 years of age.
2. All applicants must have a winning record of at least 3 PROFESSIONAL MMA fights. All records will be verified on sherdog.com and mixedmartialarts.com. If we cannot verify your record on either of these sites you will NOT be considered.
1. Attend the Open Call in Las Vegas NV, on Monday, December 5, 2011:
Texas Station
2101 Texas Star Lane
North Las Vegas, NV 89032
Tryouts will be held in the Dallas Ballroom
For room reservations please call 1-800-654-8888
All applicants must arrive between 8AM – 9AM for registration.
Fighters will be required to grapple and hit pads, so please dress appropriately and bring all necessary gear. (Mouth guard, cup, hand wraps & gloves)
2. If you cannot attend the tryouts in Las Vegas, please fill out and follow the instructions on the application. All applications must be received by December 1, 2011.
UFC middleweight, and TUF 14 coach, Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping is set to meet Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller next month at the “TUF 14 Finale”. Bisping says the fight will end with him knocking out Miller at the Las Vegas event. The TUF 14 series was ‘The Count’s’ third appearance on “The Ultimate Fighter” after winning the season three light heavyweight contest, and then coaching season nine against Dan Henderson.
UFC middleweight, and TUF 14 coach, Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping is set to meet Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller next month at the “TUF 14 Finale”. Bisping says the fight will end with him knocking out Miller at the Las Vegas event. The TUF 14 series was ‘The Count’s’ third appearance on “The Ultimate Fighter” after winning the season three light heavyweight contest, and then coaching season nine against Dan Henderson.
‘Secure a win, and ask for a title shot.’ It’s something we see from top contenders–and even not-quite top contenders–every event. But last night Urijah Faber seemed intent on finishing his opponent and letting his performance demand the title bout for him. He did. It did.
Faber came out aggressively, throwing powerful combinations that kept Brian Bowles moving backwards. He also found a home for a score of uppercuts, one of which would spell the beginning of the end for the former WEC Bantamweight champion. With a second round ‘submission of the night’ victory, Faber emphatically punched his ticket to a rubbermatch with UFC Bantamweight kingpin Dominick Cruz.
‘Secure a win, and ask for a title shot.’ It’s something we see from top contenders–and even not-quite top contenders–every event. But last night Urijah Faber seemed intent on finishing his opponent and letting his performance demand the title bout for him. He did. It did.
Faber came out aggressively, throwing powerful combinations that kept Brian Bowles moving backwards. He also found a home for a score of uppercuts, one of which would spell the beginning of the end for the former WEC Bantamweight champion. With a second round ‘submission of the night’ victory, Faber emphatically punched his ticket to a rubbermatch with UFC Bantamweight kingpin Dominick Cruz.
Though not officially signed, the hype for the trilogy started in the Octagon last night with Faber’s post fight interview:
“Dominick, you can run but you can’t hide, homeboy. Throw some gel in that widow’s peak. Let’s do some work. Let’s do battle.”
Awww, dayum! Calling the champ out is one thing, Urijah, but calling him out on his hair is a serious faux pas.
A chance to relive their show stopping performance at UFC 132 is just too good for Zuffa to pass up, and it may prove too good to contain in a simple pay-per-view. Though White wouldn’t commit, his quiet grin conveyed that he’s giving serious thought to the pair serving as coaches on The Ultimate Fighter. White remarked that the two could hypothetically start filming their season in March for the live revisioning of the reality television franchise.
In our reality, they would put all of the upcoming opponents from a scheduled card in the same fighter house, which we know would never happen, but we can still dream, right?
Well, according to a report by SI’s Loretta Hunt we were half right.
(Sources say the new show will have 75% less bodily fluid ingestion in each season.)
In our reality, they would put all of the upcoming opponents from a scheduled card in the same fighter house, which we know would never happen, but we can still dream, right?
Well, according to a report by SI’s Loretta Hunt we were half right.
SPIKE president Kevin Kay — TV executive responsible for bringing TUF from its original conception to reality, is planning a new MMA reality show that could go head to head with Fox’s incarnation of TUF starting in 2013.
Kay insists that the new show won’t be a carbon copy of the old one.
“One thing we won’t do is duplicate The Ultimate Fighter. It’s a great franchise and it’s going to go on to another network. I actually think the tournament format is a little bit like The Ultimate Fighter without the reality piece of it, per se, because every fighter is fighting three times over the course of the tournament to win the championship. You fight, you lose, you go home. There’s a lot of reality already baked into that idea. There’s different kinds of reality ideas that were starting to kick around — nothing we have our hearts set on yet — but we’re hearing lots of good ideas for reality programming around Bellator. But it won’t be 16 guys in a house. We’re not doing that show over again.”
He also touched on the technicality that will keep Bellator programming off of his channel for the next year and two months.
“While we own [The UFC fight] library, we can’t put another mixed martial arts promotion on Spike proper, on the linear network [until the agreement is up]. They could buy it back if they chose to. They chose not to do that. We have the library and we’ll use the library. I don’t have an opinion about [whether or not they decided not to buy the library back to block us from airing another promotion’s fights for a year after our deal with them expires]. I think that’s their decision. We have the library and we’re using it because we’re paying for it and why wouldn’t we? Whatever their motives are for not wanting to take it back and put it somewhere else, you’d have to ask them.”
A true optimist if ever there was one, Kay is looking at the extended period between live MMA broadcasts on SPIKE as a positive thing.
“One of the great things about having this much time to prepare and having Bellator on MTV2 throughout next year, is we have the next 14-15 months to hear a lot of pitches, pick what we want to do, put things in production, (including) a lot of reality programming around Bellator, some shoulder programming. We’re going to take Bellator’s library of fights, see what’s there and see how we can package that because, for the fans, they’ve not seen most of these Bellator fighters before so we want to build those stars. And it’s actually fresh library product, so there’s lots we can do and we have 15 months to figure it out.”
Among other topics, White addressed the possible scenario that the Velasquez-JDS fight could be over faster then the planned pre-fight extravaganza and said that if it is, then there won’t be any other fights shown on Fox, period.
“There’s only gonna be one fight. The heavyweight championship is the only fight that’s gonna be on Fox, [even if] it goes 10 seconds.”
Check out the highlights of the call after the jump.
Among other topics, White addressed the possible scenario that the Velasquez-JDS fight could be over faster then the planned pre-fight extravaganza and said that if it is, then there won’t be any other fights shown on Fox, period.
“There’s only gonna be one fight. The heavyweight championship is the only fight that’s gonna be on Fox, [even if] it goes 10 seconds.”
Here are the highlight’s of the call:
• Velasquez says his media obligations haven’t been too overwhelming. Just the right amount.
• Cain says his shoulder rehab went well and he’s glad he didn’t rush his recovery as it is a tough surgery to heal up from
• He has been watching lots of tape on JDS and has been sparring a lot with Paul Buentello
• Dos Santos says it was tough waiting so long for his shot and that he was a bit frustrated when Cain got injured, but it was worth the wait
• Says he believes that Cain is the number one heavyweight in the world and that by beating him he will take his crown and ranking
• Junior has been training for three months for the bout with guys like the Noguieras and Doria
• Doesn’t believe the bout will go the distance but says he’s ready conditioning-wise if it does
• Dana says prelims will be on Facebook and Fox.com and the weigh-ins will be aired on Fuel and that we can expect major changes to the format including production changes starting in January (goodbye gladiator montage?)
• Mexico is taking longer then expected to make happen as there have been lots of unforeseeable problems
• Dana is confident that the main event will be a great one, which is why he based the premier Fox event around it
• In spite of the financial hit he says they will take with cards like this one, there are no plans to reduce number of free shows as White says he wants the UFC’s TV model to resemble ABC’s “Wide World of Sports”
• Says he doesn’t look at what anyone else has done on network TV before because they’ve all failed
• Credits the massive success of the Brazil show for landing the GLOBO deal and calls the channel a “monster network”
• Rogers Sportsnet will air the event in Canada
• White feels that the Brazilian edition of TUF will be talent steeped and says he wants to do the show on a global scale and have the winners compete in a format similar to the World Cup
• Says the Fox deal helped to legitimize the sport and was one of his proudest moments as UFC president
• The biggest change to TUF is that the finals will happen at the end of the six weeks and the coaches will fight two weeks later, which is crazy since there isn’t much time for a decent camp while the coaches are filming
• Says EliteXC screwed themselves, that they should never have had a TV deal and if they had done things properly likely would still be around and on CBS
• Hinted perhaps that the Strikeforce negotiations may not happen as he stated that the UFC doesn’t do a deal unless they are completely in the driver’s seat
