Middleweights Michael Bisping and Jason "Mayhem" Miller will serve as coaches on the upcoming 14th season of "The Ultimate Fighter."

UFC president Dana White today confirmed the assignments with MMA.tv. MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) could not immediately reach White for confirmation, though separate sources close to the promotion confirmed the coaching assignments.

The season begins filming in June and debuts on Spike TV in September.

Bisping (21-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC) and Miller (24-7 MMA, 0-1 UFC) will meet in a season-ending fight at an event to be determined.

For the time in series history, "TUF 14" is expected to feature bantamweight and featherweight fighters. A 28-man, 32-slot tournament will be used. After an elimination round of fights, an official cast of 14 fighters will be determined. Two opening-round losers then will get second life as wild-card picks who fight for the eighth spot in the quarterfinal bracket.

Bisping, who won "TUF 3" and coached on "TUF 9," and Miller, who recently left Strikeforce and signed with the UFC, take the spots that were rumored to be going to a variety of fighters. Dominick Cruz, Urijah Faber, Chael Sonnen, Brian Stann, Georges St-Pierre, Nick Diaz and others all had been speculated as possibilities.

Sonnen, in fact, had the spot opposite Bisping. But unable to get a second's ("cornerman") license due to his fight ongoing fight following a recent California State Athletic Commission, Sonnen instead was replaced by Miller. (Bisping said he was "gutted" by the decision.)

Miller, in fact, is slated to fight Aaron Simpson at July's UFC 132 event, though that fight is expected to be scratched.


Source: http://mmajunkie.com/news/23764/report-the-ultimate-fighter-14-coaches-michael-bisping-and-mayhem-miller.mma

First season of TUF that I'll watch in a long long while.
Mayhem and Bisping as coaches? Awesome.
Featherweights in the house fighting? Even better
Should be epic!

What what what!!! LOL this is going to be an AWESOME season verbally! I really like Mayhem, dont know why but his crazy style appeals to me, and tbh I dont have anything against Bispin either. he reminds me of most of my hyperactive friends anyways I think this is a good call

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Now lets hope the fighters will be good too! Sounds like it!

Yeah this is going to be an awesome season

yeah it should be... these 2 will make for interesting tv...
i want mayhem to demolish bisping but i get the feeling he wont...

I hope so too. Love mayhem! But Bisping has underrated wrestling and decent hands.Interested to see how it plays out.

This has potential to be the most entertaining season so far. Sonnen and Mayhem would also be great pair. Even if Bisping - Sonnen was possible it would be interesting for all the trashtalk. We won't be disappointed. Hopefully editing won't focus only on fights cos we need a little bit of entertainment

Seems they are trying to inject some life back into the ageing series... I have a feeling this might do the trick