“Rampage” and Evans, Not Machida, to Coach on TUF 10
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson confirmed Thursday on Twitter that he’ll appear as one of the coaches on The Ultimate Fighter 10.
The former UFC light heavyweight champion has long been rumored for one of the coaching slots, but no confirmation had been offered until today.
The winner of Saturday’s UFC 98 headliner between Lyoto Machida and Rashad Evans, a bout won by Machida via second-round TKO, had been slated to coach opposite Jackson, setting up a fall title bout.
Now, according to reports, Evans will be the opposing coach on TUF 10, but, unlike prior seasons, the coaches will not square off following the season finale. Instead, as confirmed by Dana White immediately following UFC 98, Jackson will square off with Machida for the light heavyweight title. According to Machida’s official website, the matchup will take place in September in Las Vegas, likely at UFC 103. Though the location may be incorrect, with UFC 103 rumored for the UK and Yahoo! Sports reporting it could take place in Texas, the September date appears likely.
The Ultimate Fighter 10 will begin taping on June 1 before debuting on Spike TV on September 16 following UFC Fight Night 19.
The UFC is set to officially announce the coaches during an afternoon conference call with the media. UFC President Dana White is then set to make a “special announcement” at 11pm tonight on Spike TV, with the announcement of The Ultimate Fighter 10 coaches widely expected.
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com as we’ll pass along the latest The Ultimate Fighter 10 news as it becomes available.
Update from Kris Karkoski on 5/28/2009 at 4:00pm ET: The UFC has confirmed Quinton Jackson and Rashad Evans will serve as coaches on The Ultimate Fighter 10, but, contrary to previous reports, Jackson and Evans will fight later this year to determine the top contender for the light heavyweight title held by Lyoto Machida.
[Pictured: Quinton Jackson and Rashad Evans]
Tags: Lyoto Machida, Quinton Jackson, Rashad Evans
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Lyoto better practice up on his English before September.
Wasn’t Jackson just a coach on this show like 2 seasons ago?
They really must be running out of people.
Well machida better brush up on his English earlier than September cuz filming begins next week I believe.
I’m not a fan of the fact that they have the 2 people who are going to fight for the title as coaches on mostly every season! Rampage is my boy but he isn’t meant to coach. And last time he coached, he let himself go and get out of shape and it showed when he lost his title to forrest. He’d better stay focused on not only his fighters, but himself if he doesn’t want machida to rashad evans him
Wonder what machida will teach his team. “the dragon drinks his own pee and so shall you! it’s the samarai way!”
Um we all do realiZe that Machida speaks, portuguese,japanese, and english correct? I’m not too concerned about his english especially compared to some of the brits… Just because he is Brazilian doesn’t mean he can speak english….
I doubt that he will actually coach TUF 10 but hey we will see
Compared to some of the brits? Excuse me MrFR702!!! lol. God knows why you guys need subtitles for the English. lol
I agree fr702, but man, it seems like when he speaks english, he SPEAKS IT LOUDLY! haha. I just want to see them fight, let someone else coach, they don’t have to be rivals, UFC is playing it out.
I’d rather see Evans v Rampage than Evans v Machida 2 anyway. Not like the first fight was that competitive.
I’m also starting to feel like they need to do something new with TUF. It’s starting to feel stale.
Wasnt there meant to be “big things” happening for TUF? I heard Dana say that they was planning something huge.
My friend I do apologize, no disrespect intended.. Mr.Ryanmoney you know I enjoy the brits so again I apologize,
haha. I was just playin FR
i think Dana has a feeling Rampage will lose, and they are setting up Evans vs Rampage! either way i think Evans next fight will be vs Rampage! They want those “TUF” guys in the spot light!
That makes a lot of sense. Also, I think that these guys have BIG personalities and don’t like each other. It should be an entertaining season, esspecially due to the fact that both of them are hilarious.
rampage will mop the floor with Machida, if he will only watch the machida vs bj penn fight !
This makes no sense at all. Arguably the best part of TUF is the coach’s fight. So now rampage has to deal with coaching these plugs on TUF, rashad evans trash talk during the show, AND most importantly a title shot against machida. ALSO, when the show actually airs, rampage could be champ (doubt it, but possible). The show will be outta date. They won’t discuss rampage’s subsequent win or loss against machida.
I don’t care what they say about how the coaches won’t fight at the end of the year, if these guys are the coaches the UFC is setting it up for a year end december fight between rashad and rampage. Either a grudge match or for the title. Just my opinion.
Evans and Rampage to coach on TUF? I don’t get why they went with that.
Seeing as Rampage will fight Machida before he fights Evans, just seems to much is going on with so few people.
Perhaps Liddel would have been a good move for a coach(if he is going to have 1 last fight that is). Or maybe even try and build a house hold name like a Frankie Edgar a Clay Guida.
“****Or a Clay Guida****”
Guess I can skip that season. I hated watching rampage try to coach the first time and don’t see a reason to sit through it again. And I’m betting Evans will be in the same mold with coaching ability.
Love the idea of Guida as a coach! Perhaps against Florian or Nate Diaz…
Perhaps Evans will bring in Greg Jackson as an assistant coach though, so basically it will be Greg Jackson vs. Rampage and Tiki as coaches for the season.
Yeh Nate Diaz…. Right……. Nate is just the ideal person to put on national television.
HAHA…awesome. They can have Diego coach. They’ll all enter the ring going “YES, YES, YES”!
I would have liked Machida to coach, it makes more sense and it would have been intersting to see him as a coach, but Evans is a better fit due to his new found beef with Rampage for beating up on his buddy Jardine. I think this will be very entertaining to see Rampage and Evans coach against eachother and it will be interesting to see how Evans does as a coach, it doesn’t matter though, just can’t wait till september when Rampage kicks Machida’s a$$ and shuts everyone up.
I guess we can get ready for some Black on Black Crime!!!!
I dont mind the coaches..ever…I like the show..period…it discovers new fighters and introduces them to us..the world…which makes the UFC fresh year round!! Not the same ol people fighting…adding new faces to the mix is always great…sure..sometimes we get Gabe Rudiger..but we also get Forrest, KOS, Diego, Evans, etc…
My only critism would be…why not get 2 heavyweight fighters as coaches since this season will focus on heavey weights?!?! Like Lesnar and Kongo..ha….or seriously…get Couture back as a coach… and maybe pair him up with…maybe with someone who isnt a recognizable face.. like Shane Carwin or Cain Velasquez… that would be cool to see… I just think the UFC is trying to bring guys who like to joke and be funny/cocky to be coaches to try and get better ratings, which I guess is smart in that aspect… but I just want to see 2 guys who are good at coaching…and I know Couture is!
unfortantely we won’t be seeing some “black on black crime” cuz your boy rashad got ktfo. Maybe they’re have a scuffle on the show and “sugar” and rampage can exchange more than words… doubt that’ll happen though.
i think it doesn’t make sense to have rampage and rashad is rampage will fight machida after. it should be shane carwin like you said and maybe kongo or couture. good idea Jason N
It would be great to see Rampage goof on Rashad getting knocked out.
Garule,
Rampage talks a lot of stuff and jokes around alot, but he doesn’t resort to stuff like that, i’m sure he won’t get on Rashad for getting ko’d.
Rampage beats Machida via tko in September!
Does anyone know how long it takes to film a season of TUF? Will Rampage have enough time to train for Machida after the season is done?
Jackson vs Evans for the next season rocks! To guys that will be jawing at each other constantly….and then Evans brings in Jardine to help coach? So Jackson brings in Houstan Alexander wooo! The jokes will roll on and on!
Joe Rogan looks like a happy clown in the background.
Looks like a set up for a future grudge match to me. I doubt Dana will have to encourage either of them to run their mouths.
I actuall think they will have rashad as the coach cause the fight between rampage and machida will allready have happened. so i see lyoto being out. Now if Rampage wins then you could have Rashad fight him for the belt but if he loses then they could still fight and it would be a big draw. Its a win win if these guys coach then fight.
I’m very confused here. In the past, the UFC pretty much sacrificed decent coaching in order to set up a future fight (between the coaches). I can understand that part. We’ll go ahead and bring on fighters that even though they make useless coaches, it’s okay because we are setting the stage for them to fight eachother when the show is over. While I didn’t like that they did that, I could at least understand why they did it.
But now, they are still putting forth poor coaches, except this time it’s not to upstage any sort of fight when the show is over, or even a fight at all (This is assuming Rampage and Evans will be the coaches, but Rampage will fight Machida next). It went from an original scheme that I disliked but tolerated to a new scheme that I flat-out despise.
However I do not think every coach was worthless. I think Matt Serra (while I’m not a fan of his) was a phenomenal coach, among maybe a select few others.
Okay, i didn’t realize the show won’t air until after the Machida and Rampage square off. That makes a little more sense since Regardless of the Machida-Rampage outcome, it would set up Rampage-Evans. My bad.
Still though, I would rather see better coaching.