Buffalo Dave
Yeeeeeeeah Buddy!!
"Mayhem" is returning to the octagon.
Six years after a lone appearance at welterweight in which he was dominated by Georges St-Pierre, Jason Miller (24-7 MMA, 0-1 UFC) is returning to the UFC as a thoroughly experienced middleweight.
Ryan Parsons, Miller's manager, today confirmed to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that the fighter has signed a multi-fight agreement with the promotion following an initial report from MMA Fighting.
There's no word yet on an exact return date for Miller, whose contract with Strikeforce expired earlier this year. He had not fought for the California-based promotion since a now-infamous brawl with the Cesar Gracie Fight Team one year ago at the CBS-televised "Strikeforce: Nashville."
Miller was tentatively scheduled to fight Tim Kennedy at "Strikeforce: Columbus" before he was replaced by Melvin Manhoef. His most recent professional appearance came this past August when he submitted MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba at DREAM 16.
Looks like Miller the first Strikeforce fighter to officially join the UFC after the Zuffa purchase of Strikeforce.
I'm liking this, Does he stand a chance to dethrone Silva? Highly unlikely, but he will give us some pretty good match ups in the division. I would love to see a Miller/Bisping fight. All though this fight might not interest many, but I would also like to see him in a fight with Maia, be a fight showing some great BJJ between the two. Of course there is always the potential rematch with Jake Shields, depending on the outcome of Shields' fight later this month, or he can try and avenge his first ever loss that was to Chael Sonnen almost 10 years ago. Now we just have to wait and see you his first fight will be.
Anyone in particular you wanna see him fight??