UFC NEWS: Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos to coach season 13 of The Ultimate Fighter, will fight later in 2011

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

The UFC will have a massive season of The Ultimate Fighter for their 13th iteration of the reality series, as UFC President Dana White announced that former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos will coach 28 welterweights during the upcoming season of the show.

Filming for the season begins later this month, with the show beginning on March 30 on Spike TV. The two will then meet in the Octagon later this year.

The notoriously reclusive Lesnar will step in front of the cameras for a month of filming for the show, and will take his first fight since losing his title to Cain Velasquez in October.

Dos Santos was supposed to face Velasquez, but with the Champion out with injury, Dos Santos will take this fight in the interim, along with the exposure that The Ultimate Fighter will bring.

Penick's Analysis: This is huge for the UFC, for Spike TV and for The Ultimate Fighter as a show. This fight is infinitely more interesting than Lesnar-Mir III, and with 12 weeks of build up to it and 12 weeks of the UFC's biggest pay-per-view on Spike TV, the fight between Lesnar and Dos Santos will be a massive pay-per-view event. We'll have more on this as it comes out, including when the two will fight, but for now this announcement is massive.

Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_8128.shtml

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