Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva to coach at TUF: Brazil
Posted on December 13, 2011, 03:06 PM by Anton Gurevich
After weeks of speculation, UFC have officially announced Vitor "The Phenom" Belfort and Wanderlei "The Axe Murderer" Silva as coaches for the upcoming TUF: Brazil. The show will be aired for 12 weeks on GloboTV starting March 25th.
The date of the fight between Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva is yet to be officially announced. However, it's safe to assume that the pair will square off sometime between May and July. Vitor Belfort currently prepares for his UFC 142 battle with Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, which will serve as the co-main event for the upcoming UFC 142 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Speaking at today's UFC 142 pre-fight press conference in Brazil, UFC President Dana White revealed his expectations from the season:
"This show in the United States is huge -- it's one of the longest-running reality shows. It's incredibly popular, it's been huge for us there. We think it's going to be 1,000 times bigger in Brazil. The amount of talent that's in this country right now? There's an undiscovered Anderson Silva, Jose Aldo, Vitor Belfort or Wanderlei Silva."
The news come a few weeks after Urijah Faber and the reigning UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz were announced as coaches for TUF 15 on FX (Lightweights and Welterweights), which will mark its first episode on March 9th.
Comments
Wand will suffer another bad knockout when he fights Vitor.
I like this concept n Wand/Vitor r perfect choices for coaches but damn cant see any way how Wand wont get viciously KO'd...Belforts KO power is insane he dropped Franklin n Sexiyama with like his wrist n all he needs to do is blitz Wand n connect once I think it will be over, so the show might be good but the coaches fight is prolly going to be sad to watch
Hopefully that fight doesn't happen...Dana White is always talking about when a fighter shouldn't be fighting anymore, that he "doesn't want to make one cent of that type of money." If he's serious, he shouldn't be putting Wandy in there with Vitor.
this is mad weird. first of all is TUF 15 and tuf brazil both starting in march? second vitor is already fighting johnson and third Wandy got ktfo in 20 seconds last time and nothing has changed since then he gonna get KTFO again
This is what happens when jackasses don't know what they are talking about. Wanderlei won his last fight and looked fairly impressive doing it. That being said, This is going to be a tough matchup for Silva.
I think he's talking about the last time he fought vitor in which Wand lasted 44 seconds total.
how?? wanderlei is old, Beat an unconditioned cung le, and when he was at his best in pride he fought vitor in ufc 17.5 and vitor whooped his ass!!!!!!The bad thing was wanderlei was at his best when vitor whooped his ass before and now wont be any different!!! Terrible Tuf 15 coaches choices!!!!Vitor and Rumble woudve made more SENSE!!!!!!
I think Griffin is talking about last time Wand fought Vitor not his last fight n I kinda agree, really weird timing, I remember Dana talking about doing a world cup TUF kind of thing so maybe this is the beginning of that
Dude, never use Chuck's name last
my money is on chuck
Don't count out Steven Seagul's Jumping front kick that knocked out Vitor and also Randy.
I would take David Carradine before chick or steve. Can't beat a man who's already dead. Only he can beat himself.... off.
You called Chuck chick with a small c to boot. I can hear his spur on the heel of his boot cutting through the air right now towards your as*.
This will be awesome get to see more TUF fights but with it in Portuguese I wont have to endure all the reality tv drama.
seems like a quick/harsh way for the UFC to say.... wand.. its time to call it quits...
KO-belfort..
I tend to agree, but when the last time we saw Belfort KO anyone....wandi 10 yrs ago?
i think this is wanderlei retirement request fight. Maybe he just wanted to kick some vitor ass to end his career with a bang.
ok so i know they gonna have finals brazil vs usa, BUT are they gonna do winners of TUF coaches vs other TUF coach also?
Great fight can't wait. I think Wand will do better than people think. Vitor isn't exactly Mr reliable, who knows which Vitor will turn up.