I know this thread is just a goof-off thread, but for the sake of wasting time numbness, let me try to think about this.
Is there some possible way that Chael would either boost his money-earning or put himself into a better position by doing a bait and switch? Or, is there some way that doing this would net the UFC more money????
........Ummmmmm, noooo. Nope. Don't got anything. If Chael doesn't fight, he doesn't make the money off of his trash-talking. If it came out before the finale, then nobody will watch TUF either, so bad for the UFC. Even if Chael pulls out at the last moment after the season is done and the finale is filled in for by someone else, all that build-up and drama from the TUF season will go to waste. I just can't see where there's any advantage to ANYBODY for Chael to do this kind of WWE fake-out, unless he so loathed JBJ that he's willing to screw his career and piss off Dana White just to make JBJ either look bad for pulling out of a fight with a 'last-minute' substitution who has been training to fight Jones all along or to give whomever will be subbed in the best possible chance by having Jones fight someone other than the guy he's trained months for.
I could see something like this if it was... hmm, who really hated each other and was also on their way out of the UFC or thinking of retiring anyway? Shamrock and Ortiz? Hmm.
All the same, if this happened, I would be tremendously entertained by the head explosions on this forum.