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I'm sure we probably all saw this coming but here is an actual article on it. It really sucks that Maia is not getting the next shot. He would have been a much better fight than Leites was.
According to the Manchester Evening News, the coaches of The Ultimate Fighter: U.S vs. U.K. will be fighting for more than brgging rights during their clash at UFC 100.
Michael Bisping is aiming to be the first Briton to win an Ultimate Fighting Championship world title - and he could do it in front of a sell-out MEN Arena crowd. The 30-year-old from Clitheroe has been promised a shot at the mixed martial arts organisation's middleweight crown if he comes through his clash with Dan Henderson in Las Vegas on July 11. "Michael will fight Henderson at UFC 100 in Vegas, and the winner will get a world title shot," a UFC spokesman said. "And if that winner is Michael, we intend to take the fight to Manchester, just down the road from where he lives.
We always assumed that the winner of Bisping/Henderson would be right up there in the middleweight title picture, but originally Demian Maia was supposed to get the next crack at Anderson Silva. That idea seems to have officially gone up in smoke thanks to the poor performance by another Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, Thales Leites. Not that Maia would have turned in 25 minutes of butt-flopping, but the prospect of sending in Bisping (a usually agressive striker) or Henderson (who actually took the first round of his first fight against Silva) holds more of a guarantee of excitement.
Michael Bisping is aiming to be the first Briton to win an Ultimate Fighting Championship world title - and he could do it in front of a sell-out MEN Arena crowd. The 30-year-old from Clitheroe has been promised a shot at the mixed martial arts organisation's middleweight crown if he comes through his clash with Dan Henderson in Las Vegas on July 11. "Michael will fight Henderson at UFC 100 in Vegas, and the winner will get a world title shot," a UFC spokesman said. "And if that winner is Michael, we intend to take the fight to Manchester, just down the road from where he lives.
We always assumed that the winner of Bisping/Henderson would be right up there in the middleweight title picture, but originally Demian Maia was supposed to get the next crack at Anderson Silva. That idea seems to have officially gone up in smoke thanks to the poor performance by another Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, Thales Leites. Not that Maia would have turned in 25 minutes of butt-flopping, but the prospect of sending in Bisping (a usually agressive striker) or Henderson (who actually took the first round of his first fight against Silva) holds more of a guarantee of excitement.
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