TUF UK vs. Australia

SDM · Post #1 » by **SDM** » Fri May 11, 2012 3:53 pm

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/UFC-Of ... June-42597

Bisping and Lombard?

Gold Chain · Post #2 » by **Gold Chain** » Fri May 11, 2012 4:35 pm

Man, Australia needs some more elite fighters.

Lombard is a complete unknown at this point, and if he gets beat by Stann, what happens?

SDM · Post #3 » by **SDM** » Fri May 11, 2012 4:49 pm

Still holding out for Canada vs. Brazil with GSP/Silva fighting.

Gold Chain · Post #4 » by **Gold Chain** » Fri May 11, 2012 4:58 pm

SDM wrote:Still holding out for Canada vs. Brazil with GSP/Silva fighting.

Amen, brother.

It's the PacMan/Money of MMA.

The Primetime episode alone would be amazing.

NZB2323 · Post #5 » by **NZB2323** » Fri May 11, 2012 5:15 pm

I thought that the UK and Australia were the same country.

Post #6 » by **blkout** » Fri May 11, 2012 6:08 pm

Xenophobia has reached fever pitch at sherdog over this lol. I have no idea why this is happening I doubt we have the talent pool for it. It will be interesting but I am not expecting anyone decent and there's no combination of coaches I'd have any interest in either.

One fairly decent idea I read was that instead of having one coach have a team of like three coaches for each country, and they all fight their counterparts in their own weight class at the end. That would somewhat make up for the lack of star power.

SDM · Post #7 » by **SDM** » Fri May 11, 2012 6:15 pm

^ good idea... schedules might be difficult to come together.

REDDzone · Post #8 » by **REDDzone** » Fri May 11, 2012 6:29 pm

Perosh vs any lhw imo.

SDM · Post #9 » by **SDM** » Fri May 11, 2012 6:43 pm

Perosh is Aussie? I thought he was from Mt. Olympus.

Nemesis21 · Post #10 » by **Nemesis21** » Fri May 11, 2012 9:37 pm

Too bad George Sot is not a top 5 contender anymore.

Post #11 » by **CPT** » Fri May 11, 2012 11:10 pm

Remember, this isn't going to be the successor to TUF Live: Cruz vs. Faber, but TUF Brazil. It doesn't really matter if we can't see George Sot or Kyle Noke coaching a TUF season as long as the Australian fans would get behind it.

Lombard would make sense I guess, but if he beats Stann, he's probably getting a title shot.

Post #12 » by **blkout** » Sat May 12, 2012 9:58 am

I think G-Sot is really the only guy anyone here would know of. Perosh is getting there but he's about as marketable as white paint so it would be tough to draw casuals in with him heading the show as a coach.

What they really need to do is get someone already well known to join as a fighter. Like a former footballer or something, that would draw way way more attention than anything else. We've got football players who do boxing on the side selling PPV's fighting against fat mechanics with 3-10 records who train three times a week purely because of who they are.

Post #13 » by **blkout** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:52 am

G-Sot and Pearson announced as coaches

SDM · Post #14 » by **SDM** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:04 pm

blkout wrote:G-Sot and Pearson announced as coaches

Are people excited about this in Australia?

Post #15 » by **CPT** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:15 pm

Do they fight when it's over? G-Sot is still at 155 and Pearson is at 145, right?

REDDzone · Post #16 » by **REDDzone** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:43 pm

I think it was Ariel who reported that Pearson was moving back up.

Post #17 » by **blkout** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:33 am

SDM wrote:
blkout wrote:G-Sot and Pearson announced as coaches

Are people excited about this in Australia?

The general public really don't give a **** at all, but people in the MMA community are into it. One of my brothers coaches (http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Gustavo-Falciroli-23776) tried out and didn't make it through the personality testing part, shame because the one fight I've seen from him (in One FC) he was really impressive.

REDDzone · Post #18 » by **REDDzone** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:01 am

What does your bro train, blkout?

Post #19 » by **blkout** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:52 am

He's been doing bjj for ages, I think he does muay thai too now. He does bjj tournaments all the time but hasn't competed in muay thai yet. He quit his last job because they changed his hours and it interfered with his training lol he's obsessed

REDDzone · Post #20 » by **REDDzone** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:52 pm

That's awesome.