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The Ultimate Fighter - Seasons

Season 1

Season 1 The Ultimate Fighter 1: Team Liddell vs. Team Couture

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2005


Season 2

Season 2 The Ultimate Fighter 2: Team Hughes vs. Team Franklin

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2005


Season 3

Season 3 The Ultimate Fighter 3: Team Ortiz vs. Team Shamrock

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2006


Season 4

Season 4 The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2006


Season 5

Season 5 The Ultimate Fighter 5: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2007

16 Lightweight MMA fighters head to Vegas for their chance to receive a six figure contract in the UFC with the help of coaches BJ Penn and Jens Pulver.


Season 6

Season 6 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2007

UFC Welterweight champion Matt Serra and former champ Matt Hughes face off on season 7 of The Ultimate Fighter, coaching weltrweight prospects towards a UFC contract.


Season 7

Season 7 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2008

Rampage Jackson and Forrest Griffin coach middleweight fighters toward a six-figure UFC contract.


Season 8

Season 8 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2008

UFC Heavyweight Champion Antonio Nogueira and Frank Mir coach this season's 32 Light Heavyweight and Lightweight fighters, each of whom must prove themselves to compete for 2 UFC contracts.


Season 9

Season 9 The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2009

For the first time in The Ultimate Fighter history, country against country is being matched up: United Kingdom vs. the United States. Coaches Michael Bisping and Dan Henderson will head the teams made of welterweight and lightweight contestants.


Season 10

Season 10 The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2009

This season of the Ultimate Fighter features heavyweights, including superstar street fighter Kimbo Slice, with the help of coaches Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans.


Season 11

Season 11 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2010

Legendary UFC rivals and former TUF coaches Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz return to carry on their feud as 28 Middleweights arrive at the new expanded training center and fight their way into the house in a brutal and sometimes bloody elimination tour…


Season 12

Season 12 The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2010


Season 13

Season 13 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2011


Season 14

Season 14 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2011

Dana White has a few exciting new twists for Season 14, where bantamweight and featherweight hopefuls work with coaches Michael Bisping and Jason "Mayhem" Miller to compete for a six-figure contract with the UFC.


Season 15

Season 15 The Ultimate Fighter: Live (Team Cruz vs Team Faber)

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2012

Sixteen lightweights live together for 13 weeks in the TUF house and begin their quest for a six-figure UFC contract, coached by Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz and former Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber.


Season 16

Season 16 The Ultimate Fighter: Fridays (Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson)

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2012

Thirty-two of the most talented unsigned mixed martial artists in the world fight for 16 coveted spots in the TUF house to live and train under coaches Shane Carwin and Roy Nelson to become the next Ultimate Fighter.


Season 17

Season 17 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2013

Coaches Chael Sonnen and UFC light heavyweight champion Jon "Bones" Jones guide 14 promising middleweights through a brutal competition of skill and determination. At stake is a custom-built Harley Davidson motorcycle, a six-figure UFC contract, and…


Season 18

Season 18 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2013


Season 19

Season 19 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Edgar vs. Team Penn

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2014

16 middleweights and 16 light heavyweights battle through eliminations, hoping for a coveted spot in the TUF house. Once in, coaches BJ Penn and Frankie Edgar pick their squads and get to work preparing their fighters for battle inside the Octagon. O…


Season 20

Season 20 The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned (Team Pettis vs Team Melendez)

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2014


Season 21

Season 21 The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2015

For the first time in its 10 year history, The Ultimate Fighter will leave Las Vegas and head to South Florida, playing host to rival gyms American Top Team and Blackzilians. Teams will go head-to-head and compete for bragging rights and $500,000.


Season 22

Season 22 The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2015


Season 23

Season 23 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2016

UFC Women's Strawweight Champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk along with Claudia Gadelha lead a team of light heavyweights and women's strawweights to see who will be the next Ultimate Fighters.


Season 24

Season 24 The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions (Team Benavidez vs Team Cejudo)

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2016

16 flyweight champions from around the world come to Las Vegas to compete in a tournament. The winner will earn a UFC contract, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, and an immediate title shot against current UFC champion Demetrious Johnson.


Season 25

Season 25 The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption (Team Garbrandt vs Team Dillashaw)

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2017

In a special 25th season, 14 welterweights from past seasons of The Ultimate Fighter return to Las Vegas for a second chance in the competition. At stake is the biggest prize in the show's history, $250,000.


Season 26

Season 26 The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion (Team Alvarez vs Team Gaethje)

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2017

The Ultimate Fighter will launch the new UFC women's flyweight division, as 16 of the most talented 125-pounders in the world come to Las Vegas to compete in a tournament, with the winner being crowned the first UFC women's flyweight champion.


Season 27

Season 27 The Ultimate Fighter: Undefeated (Team Miocic vs Team Cormier)

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2018

On this season of The Ultimate Fighter every competitor is undefeated. 8 featherweights and 8 lightweights from around the world will enter the competition, but who will remain unbeaten and win the UFC contract? UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel…


Season 28

Season 28 The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters (Team Whittaker vs Team Gastelum)

Fox Sports 1 United States, 2018

For the first-time ever, the biggest weight classes in the UFC for both the men's and women's divisions will compete together on The Ultimate Fighter. Eight male heavyweights and eight female featherweights will live and train together, all while bat…


Season 29

Season 29 The Return of The Ultimate Fighter (Team Volkanovski vs. Team Ortega)

ESPN+ United States, 2021

Las Vegas – The highly anticipated The Return of The Ultimate Fighter: Team Volkanovski vs. Team Ortega will see UFC® featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and No. 2 contender Brian Ortega coach men's bantamweights and middleweights competing…


Season 30

Season 30 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Peña vs Team Nunes

ESPN+ United States, 2022


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Season 31 The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Chandler

ESPN+ United States, 2023


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