Wanderlei Silva faces Vitor Belfort after 14 years as coaches at TUF Brazil – UFC News
Two of the greatest mixed martial art (MMA) fighters, Wanderlei Silva and Vitor Belfort will be facing each other after more than a decade. The two legendary Brazilian fighters would have their hands full when they meet at The
Ultimate Fighter (TUF): Brazil in the form of coaches.
TUF is an event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). According to reports from the UFC officials, TUF Brazil would start from March 25, 2012. The news about Silva and Belfort coaching at the show was confirmed
by UFC on December 13, 2011.
Although the TUF Brazil would start in March 2012, the finale would be held somewhere in June 2012. It is also reported from UFC officials that both the coaches would meet each other in the UFC ring in June 2012. It is interesting to note that both fighters
have met before in the fighting cage.
They had their bout in October 1998 at UFC Brazil where Silva won the bout by a technical knockout (TKO) in the first round. Silva made his light heavyweight debut from that fight and had a successful start in his new weight class. In 2012, the two fighters
would be meeting not only as opponents, but they would be facing each other as coaches. Apart from focusing on their bout, they would also have to coach fighters in the TUF Brazil.
Dana White, CEO of UFC is excited for TUF Brazil. He said, "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."
UFC and MMA fans have been waiting for a long time to watch Silva-Belfort bout. They will give UFC fans a rematch which could perhaps be the fight of the year or maybe the rematch of the year. Silva has shown his interest in his bout against Belfort. He has
expressed his views that he would take the rematch longer than his first bout against Belfort in 1998.
He is excited for it was his dream to coach at TUF and now he is also getting a match against Belfort in 2012. According to UFC, the tryout of fighters for TUF Brazil would begin in January 2012. It has also been confirmed that Globo, Brazil’s television network,
would be airing the TUF Brazil fights.
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