Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva will coach the next season of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil. The announcement was made during a much-hyped edition of Fox Sports Live.
Dana White was interviewed by Sonnen on a segment of Fox Sports Live in which White revealed that Sonnen and Silva would be the coaches for TUF Brazil. White half-joked that Sonnen would have extra security for the show as it’s scheduled to be in Brazil. As is customary, the two coaches will face one another at the end of the season of the show. No date of filming, location or timetable for the fight between Sonnen and Silva.
Sonnen is still set to fight Rashad Evans at UFC 167.
Payout Perspective:
It’s interesting to note the type of news broken on FS1 as opposed to the news broken on ESPN by the UFC. For instance, White announced the rematch between Chris Weidman and Anderson Silva on ESPN. Here, the programming aspect is the tie-in for the Fox announcement. No real information has been disseminated other than Sonnen and Silva will be coaches. It would make sense that FS1 (or FS2) picks up the episodes in America. The move appears to be a shot at infusing life in the show in Brazil. But, will the Sonnen-Silva show have Rampage-Rashad spark? Sonnen ended up liking Jon Jones after pre-TUF trash talk. Although Silva and Sonnen have gone at each other in social media and a public confrontation, it does not mean that TUF Brazil will get ratings as a result.
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