Bisping and Henderson Likely TUF 9 Coaches
The Ultimate Fighter 3 winner Michael Bisping and former PRIDE champion Dan Henderson are likely to land roles as coaches on the ninth season of The Ultimate Fighter, which will feature welterweights (170 pounds) and middleweights (185 pounds) in a United States versus United Kingdom format.
According to The Sun, Bisping will be offered the position if he gets past Chris Leben in the UFC 89 main event in October while Henderson is likely to be tapped to coach the US team. Bisping and Henderson will then clash in the main event of The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale to determine the promotion’s top middleweight contender.
Auditions for the series will take place on October 20th in London, England and on October 27th in Chicago, Illinois.
The Ultimate Fighter 9 will begin filming later this year or in early-2009 for an anticipated April 2009 debut.
Bisping sucks! He will lose to Leben…then what happens??
boy, did i call it or did i call it?
in a way i actually hope leben loses to bisping now. i’d like to see hendo SLAM HIM THROUGH THE MAT and show just how much he doesn’t belong near the top 10!
Even tho I want Leben to ko Bisbing and he would be coming off a loss to coach against and face Henderson please note that Bisbing is the UFC’s most marketable Brit imo
good call kelvin,should be interesting if it happens!USA should coast it,much higher standard than the UK.leben will have a lot to say about that tho,tough fight for bisping!
man everybody seems to hate bisping,guy gets pelters
Bisping couldnt get past Hamill, hows he gonna beat a top wrestler like Henderson. Bisping is spoon fed his opponents
“Pelters”? If he(Bisbing) would have faced Hamill in a rematch he would be liked by more people imo… I’m not a big fan but the kid is talented and seems to be a normal good guy
Yeah, you called it Kelvin. Good foresight.
If Bisping loses to Leben, my guess is that the UFC will use a non-Brit (but not an American) to coach the UK team. Maybe a Japanese, Brazilian, or European (non-UK) fighter. There is no one else in the UFC who is from the UK who could coach the UK team. Dana is definitely keeping his fingers crossed on this one.
bisping rules it p!sses me off that every1 hates him, i belive people hate him cos hes english and hes beating americans up and makein a name for himself thats why people hate him so much, its bull sh!t that people say they hate him cos of the hammill fight, number1 that was the judges fault number2 theres been loads of close calls and people dont hold grudges against then. people who hate the count are the people who chant USA at sport events like there head is guna explode.
the count will make short work of leban, chris is not even in the counts league, then the hendo count fight is a fight i have been wanting for a long time and it looks like now i am going to get my wish.
FR702,pelters just means having a go at him.see your point about hamill,a was at that and didnt like the way he jumped on the octagon after such a close fight(which he didnt win)!needs a good win over leben to hype up TUF9
Whoo I look forward to season 9!
Marko…no offence dude but I havent read anything so ridiculous in a long time. Just read back what you wrote man.
“Bisping is spoon fed his opponants”, when this post is also obviously confirming Hendo vs Bisping (post Leban on a win) as well. Do you consider Hendo “spoon fed” fodder too then? Or even Leban in that case? Or Rashad Evans?
Not having a go at anyone in particular, including Marko (we are all entitled to our opinion), but im sooooooooooo bored of all the anti Bisping stuff when most of it is 100% personal dislike of the guy rather than any sort of substantial fact or deserving.
How many times is the Hamill fight going to be dragged up over and over and over like its the biggest controversy since Watergate? OK fact time. Bisping won. And why did he win? Because the judges thought so. End of.
(I also find this ridiculous anyway as no one ever happens to mention the Evans Bisping fight, when in my opinion and many others Bisping won soundly as Evans did nothing other than takedowns, followed by more nothingness, BUT, I dont whine on and on about how I think Bisping won and Evans should be hung drawn and quartered for it! Bisping lost. And I accept it.)
Secondily on the choice of opponants, UFC picks them. Thats it. If anything, its testiment to Bisping whos showing he doesnt have the ego of some other fighters who were recently disgraced and cut. He likes to fight. He gets paid for fighting. Why wouldnt he accept the fights? Not to mention he has looked bloody good at MW and anyone who doesnt believe he can be a genuine force at MW either now or certainly in the future, is, to be frank, an idiot.
Come on guys, stop hating for stupid reasons. Hes a good guy, with talent. And it will come through over the next few years (if not already).
Rant over…sorry guys!
ah, the brit speaks…
johnboy, people hate bisping b/c
1-he sucks!
2-he has no class. he knows deep in his mind that he lost that hamill fight, he reacted like an idiot, and still puts on an act like he really believes he won.
3-he hasn’t proven ANYTHING!!! look at his list of wins…
-josh haynes
-elvis sinosic (are u kidding me, really?)
-eric schaffer
-i’m not putting matt hamill on this list because anyone with 1 good eye knows bisping lost that fight
-charles mccarthy (again, are u kidding me?)
-jason day (1 more time…are u freakin kidding me?!!)
i think above all, the people who can’t stand bisping like his FANS even less b/c 99% of them are biased brits who are just glad to see that dana white hasn’t forgotten about them. bisping is spoon-fed his opponents so that FANS LIKE U JOHNBOY, can have a brit to watch on the UFC. and by the way, leben isn’t even in the top ten and he’s still gonna smash the count’s FACE IN!
UK_Chris,
you’re right when you say that the UFC picks his opponents. however, i bring up forrest griffin who was offered lyoto machida early last year and said that he would fight him, but that he’d rather be the first to fight shogun…and look what happened. i respect the guys who want the bigger fights way more than the guys who are happy to walk over the losers who are thrown in front of them.
i’m actually just sick of his fans b/c they believe he’s sooooo great when he hasn’t proven anything.
by the way, say what u want about rashad, but he’s gone on since that fight to prove himself worthy of a title fight, bisping hasn’t.
ok well my first attempt of stating this didnt go through soo Kris if it got spamed again no worries
@JohnBoy & UK Chris, now lets see he is talented forsure no question, i dont get upset due to the fact that he beats Americans, whatever i enjoy a good fight either way, and foriegn fighters beating Americans doesnt bother me the least (iam American)
the Hamill fight still bothers me sure, is it the judges fault whynot….. i wish that Bisbing would have had a rematch with Hamill but with Hamills knee and Bisbing dropping to 185 (convienetly hahaha) that is unlikely to happen
i dont think that Joe Silva is babying Bisbing at all and he has a difficult oppenent in Leben coming but even tho i think that Bisbing is highly talented and probably a really good guy outside of the cage im not going to jump on the “bandwagon” for im not completely “sold” on him
@gav, thx for the clear up you have added to my vocabulary for the week cheers
Kelvin
Well I dont think its accurate to say Bisping doesnt have any desire to fight the best guys. He said he does, and if the UFC offered him Hendo tomorrow im sure he would say yes. Surely Leban is the next step? Reasonable win loss record, and well known. He already publically said he was dissapointed when Leban had to step out the first time. I dont think thats a million miles away from Forrest’s quote. Yes Leban may not be Shogan or Machida level, but he is working his way up from the bottom of the middleweights remember.
I also dont believe all his fans believe he’s “soooooooo great” either. Im a Bisping fan (obviously ;-)) but I know he has to work his way up (even if it does has to start again against a fat jiu jitsu guy). He also has a lot of wholes in his game I can see, but the talent is there and each fight he gets better.
Lastly in this debate, on what has Bisping done since Rashad, hes beaten 2 guys the UFC “picked” for him, and he beat them down bad. He’s looking twice as good at MW than LHW and looks a genuine force at MW. I see the skills in Bisping to beat Leban, quite easily as long as he dont get sloppy. Thats what hes done.
I fear no matter what Bisping does, he could knock out Leban with a flying left hook, powerbomb Hendo, and break Silvas nose with a some nasty knees, and everyone will still come up with reasons why Bisping “sucks” as the haters so elegantly put. (disclaimer: im not saying that Bisping is going to do all those aforementioned things, just making an point)
put ur dummie back in ur mouth and go chant USA USA USA USA USA USA, matt hamill vs bisping and evens vs bisping was the same fight with diffrent out come’s and thats all down to the judges all hamill did was take bisping down but he got back up again smashed him for abit take down again etc etc etc judges scored bisping getting up an punches higher then hamill takedown, in the evens fight they scored the takedowns higher, after the hamill fight yeah he ran around the ring but for f*ck sake i thought u guys would like that the way u act all over the top an sh!t but no u hate him cos it was an american guy who has got a dissability who he did it against. and i also like how u have covered ur track by not saying leban is a top ten contender good thinking.
I do not care for Bisping much (and i’m a Brit myself) but to say he has been spoon fed & protected is bull****.
Hamill is no joke (yes he lost that fight i agree) Schafer, Sinosic & McCarthy are decent,
Day was a dangerous fight for him but he blew him away and his sole defeat to Evans was controversial he did not loose that fight he got robbed big time.
I actually think this could a great fight and if Bisping beats Hendo Silva has a real threat in the MW division.
So what happens after michael the “kuntt” bisping loses to leben? will it be leben, henderson? No matter who it is, hendo will kill anyone one of them. I still think it should be
Marquardt vs henderson
FR702
I respect your point a lot more, because it isnt based on mindless “Bisping sucks”-isms based on nothing. All id say is im not actually sure what the Bisping “bandwagon” even is? Surely its something created and overly hyped by countless fans either hating him or appreciating him, with no-one in between?
I hope your one of those people waiting to see what he can do when tested before making premature opinions? If so, thats cool!
@JohnBoy are u a Chelsea fan? and the go chant USA thing com’on now i wouldnt go tell you to sing Hail to the Queen….ya know aww who cares im just talking shhhhittt (all in jest) and Bisbing isnt in the top ten (world) either sooo
UK_Chris,
good argument. i don’t mind debating issues with reasonable fans like urself. like i said, it’s the airheads that think he’s an INCREDIBLE FIGTHER (like JOHNBOY) that get on my nerves. ur probably right, if he were to hypotheically KO leben with a left hook, powerbomb hendo, and break silva’s nose, and i still wouldn’t like him, but at least i’d stop saying that he sucks and i’d give him his credit….
nah, i still don’t think i’d do that.
honestly speaking, i think hendo vs. marquardt would be a MUUUCH more intriguing matchup, but that’s just me.
Bisping is going to loose to Leban. I still think it is a good match up.
no im leeds united fan so were haveing hard times but we will be back haha anyway back to the count yeah hes the best fighter in the world kelvin is just jelous of his skills and needs to admit that the count is his fav fighter, until he does that hes just guna be bitter 2wards me and call me names
it makes me sad
@ UK Chris, thx to be completely honest with you i would like to see Leben win (he is super crazy and i liked him before i even knew who Bisbing was, also stems from me being anti Kos, i met Kos before he did what he did to Leben on the show and i didnt like Kos then and i always thought if Leben got ahold of him well you know) the “bandwagon” or “nuthugger” thing is what i mean.. i think this is a test for Bisbing and even tho he has looked better and more aggresive @185 i would like to see him fight more top flight competition and this is perhaps the start of that…. so ya i guess im wait and see arent i?????
johnboy,
“and i also like how u have covered ur track by not saying leban is a top ten contender good thinking.”
i figured u’d like that..haha
@JohnBoy well i was going to pick on you if you were a Chelsea fan but i would say BBBBaaaaacccckkkkk in the day Leeds was like one of the most entertaining teams to watch they always gave it their all……
o im a Arsenal fan have been since i was 9
i knew u had a sence of humor in there some were lol
lol, oh Kelvin you hating b1tch
No I agree…debate is good. But like you, it just does my head in with the endless “Bisping sucks, thats why he will lose” type comments. Completely ridiculous.
johnboy,
I am American, and happen to like Bisping. I’m more with FR702 in the wait and see category. He’s shown a lot of talent and skill, but he hasn’t for sure shown me that he’s a force to be reckoned with, and certainly has not shown himself to be the guy that’s going to knock off Silva. A good showing against Leben and Hendo, would cause me to give him some consideration.
The comments about chanting USA are ridiculous. Obviously you pull for your countrymen, why shouldn’t we?