Next year's TUF is slated to have a British team that is coached by a TUF alumnus, Michael Bisping, who won the TUF tournament thanks to an injury to Matt Hamill, who is better than Bisping and beat him in a match in England when Bisping was given a crooked decision to please the hometown fans.

Bisping realized he can't become a champion in the 205 pound division because he's nowhere near good enough and never will be. So he slimmed down and now fights at 185 pounds. That's Anderson Silva's division. That used to be Rich Franklin's division until Silva came along and beat him twice. That's also the division that Hollywood Dan Henderson dominated in Japan years ago, but Henderson was also defeated by Silva in the unification match.

In fact, Anderson Silva's only claim to fame is that he beat Rich Franklin and Dan Henderson. Other than that, there's really not much there, considering his overblown reputation as (chuckle) the best pound for pound fighter in the world. He's the best 185 pounder in the world. Leave it at that and don't get crazy. That's more than enough for him. A 185 pound version of Fedor Emelianenko would beat the living crap out of Anderson Silva. He'd be twice the groundfighter and twice the standup fighter, and there isn't much left is there.

Anderson Silva will not be a TUF coach. Bisping's opposing coach was originally supposed to be one of the other big names in the middleweight division, Rich Franklin or Dan Henderson, whoever would agree to do it. Neither one came right out and refused, but it seems that both of them would rather eat mud than be in TUF. Maybe one of them will consent to do it. If so, they will probably have an all American team to go against Bisping's Brits.

There is possibly a more likely candidate to oppose Bisping. There's a middleweight from Brazil who has already mentioned that he'd like his next fight to be Bisping. His name is Demian Maia, and he'd kick Bisping's ass. I'd make Maia a 5-1 favorite over Bisping. Maia is a jitz superstar. He'd twist Bisping, a mediocre groundfighter, into a pretzel and then pull his arm up through his ass and around his knees, then overextend the elbow.

Bisping's only shot at Maia would be the fact that Brazilians often are just not all that tough. They are technically skilled like mad, but when you bash them in the head a few, they don't wanna play anymore. I think that had a lot to do with Forrest Griffin beating Shogun. Brazilians aren't all named Renzo Gracie. You could slice Renzo Gracie's head off with a chainsaw and he'd still want to fight you, smiling all the while.

But the thing is, Bisping isn't an American collegiate wrestler. He is pretty tough but I don't think he's much tougher than most Brazilian fighters. Maybe a bit, but not enough to matter. He's not some midwest farmboy who will bum rush a Brazilian and make him wish he were dead or home in bed. So Maia out-jitzes him and that's that.

If Maia does coach on TUF, as far as I can remember I think it would be the first time that a real Gracie Jiu Jitsu expert ever coached on that show. You can't learn it all in a couple of months though, so it's not like he will turn the whole team into himself.

If Brock Lesnar put on a gi and joined Renzo Gracie's school in lower Manhattan, or the big school in Torrance, Cali, Lesnar would have it all. The only thing he's missing is expertise in Gracie jiu jitsu, and if he is a really sharp guy he'd be doing exactly that. I don't think he's quite that sharp though. Good thing for the rest of the MMA heavyweights that Lesnar doesn't do that. Or go train in Russian sambo.

Actually it is kind of frustrating that a man of Lesnar's ability and size doesn't do what he should be doing. I don't know what the hell he's doing, but all he needs is Gracie jiu jitsu or Russian sambo to be all that he can be. He has the rest. I don't think he's doing it, and it's kind of like having a prodigy for a child and the kid just doesn't go to school. It's a waste. Anyway, he's pretty damn good without it. Fedor would beat his ass with sambo though. Listen for that arm cracking. Watch Lesnar banging the mat with all his might as he taps out due to Fedor's arm bar. He thought Frank Mir was good? Yuk yuk. Funny. Mir can't play with Fedor. Different world.