The Ultimate Fighter - All Seasons

The Ultimate Fighter - Season 1

Season 1

The Ultimate Fighter 1: Team Liddell vs. Team Couture

The debut season of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on January 17, 2005. Sixteen mixed martial arts fighters were invited to participate in the show where they would reside together and train in two separate teams coached by UFC Light Heavyweight fighters Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture. The teams would compete in physical challenges, segments hosted by singer Willa Ford, to determine which team would have the right to pair one of their own fighters against an opponent of their choice in the same weight class, with the loser being eliminated. The finale was broadcast live on April 9, 2005, where the two finalists in each weight class faced off for a contract with the UFC. It was the first ever live UFC broadcast on non-pay-per-view television, and it drew a very impressive 1.9 overall rating. The series was also broadcast in the UK in the spring of 2005 on Bravo. A 5-disc DVD set of "The Ultimate Fighter" was released on November 1, 2005.
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Episodes16
DatesJan 17, 2005 - Apr 9, 2005
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 2

Season 2

The Ultimate Fighter 2: Team Hughes vs. Team Franklin

The Ultimate Fighter 2 was the second season of the mixed martial arts reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. The season featured a heavyweight and a welterweight division, with 9 fighters initially in each division. The UFC coaches for this season were welterweight and middleweight champions Matt Hughes and Rich Franklin. Season 1 coach and former UFC champion Randy Couture hosted and designed the team challenge segments, which if won would allow the winning team to pair a fighter from their team against another in elimination matches. The finale aired on November 5, 2005, and it set a ratings record for the UFC with a 2.0 overall rating. Although released on DVD in 2005, it has been set for re-release on September 18, 2007. Season 2 is also the only season to date where all fights that took place are considered as professional MMA bouts by Nevada State Athletic Commission.
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Episodes14
DatesAug 22, 2005 - Nov 5, 2005
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 3

Season 3

The Ultimate Fighter 3: Team Ortiz vs. Team Shamrock

The Ultimate Fighter 3 was the third season of the mixed martial arts reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. It premiered on April 6, 2006, immediately after the conclusion of Ultimate Fight Night 4. The season featured sixteen fighters with still-feuding former champion Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock as coaches. The finale aired on June 24, 2006 and tied the UFC's all-time record with a 2.0 overall rating. There were several rule changes from the previous Ultimate Fighter seasons. There were to be no team challenges. All fighters would have to win a preliminary match before advancing to the semi-finals—which in practice started the single-elimination tournament at the beginning of the series instead of near the end. The first preliminary match was set by the team who won a coin toss. All subsequent first-round match-ups were set by the team that won the previous match. Each fight was set for two rounds instead of the normal three. If there was a draw after two rounds, the match would go to a final, five-minute tiebreaker round. In such a case, the judges' final decision on the match would be based solely on the third round. Coaches were allowed to bring two other assistant coaches to assist with training, whereas in previous seasons, assistant trainers hired by the UFC worked for both camps.
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Episodes14
DatesApr 6, 2006 - Jun 24, 2006
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 4

Season 4

The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback

The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback is the fourth season of the mixed martial arts reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. It premiered on August 17, 2006, immediately after the conclusion of UFC Fight Night 6. The finale was aired on November 11, 2006. This series featured a change from the usual Ultimate Fighter format. Instead of UFC hopefuls, the cast was composed of fighters that had fought in the UFC but had yet to win a UFC title. The winners in the middleweight and welterweight divisions earned a UFC title shot in their division and a $100,000 purse, along with a $100,000 sponsorship deal with Xyience. Instead of coaches, prominent trainers and UFC fighters acted as advisors. Randy Couture, Georges St. Pierre, Marc Laimon, the grappling instructor from seasons 1 and 2, and Mark DellaGrotte, Kenny Florian's kickboxing trainer, were the advisors. The cast still lived in seclusion in the Las Vegas house. The rules were the same as in The Ultimate Fighter 3, where preliminary round matches were two rounds with a sudden victory round in case of a tie, and all fighters had to win a preliminary match before advancing to the semi-final round. The team that had won the last match decided the next match, with a coin toss deciding which team set the first matchup.
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Episodes14
DatesAug 17, 2006 - Nov 11, 2006
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 5

Season 5

The Ultimate Fighter 5: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn

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.

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Episodes14
DatesApr 5, 2007 - Jun 23, 2007
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 6

Season 6

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra

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.

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Episodes14
DatesSep 19, 2007 - Dec 8, 2007
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 7

Season 7

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest

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

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Episodes14
DatesApr 2, 2008 - Jun 21, 2008
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 8

Season 8

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir

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.

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Episodes14
DatesSep 17, 2008 - Dec 13, 2008
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 9

Season 9

The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom

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.

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Episodes14
DatesApr 1, 2009 - Jun 20, 2009
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 10

Season 10

The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights

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

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Episodes14
DatesSep 16, 2009 - Dec 5, 2009
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 11

Season 11

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz

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 tournament.

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Episodes13
DatesMar 31, 2010 - Jun 19, 2010
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 12

Season 12

The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck

In the contest to find the next Ultimate Fighter, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre leads his team of fighters into battle against Josh Koscheck and his squad of mixed martial artists. Only one man from one team can emerge victorious.
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Episodes13
DatesSep 15, 2010 - Dec 4, 2010
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 13

Season 13

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos

From San Diego, CA to New Orleans, LA, to Dusseldorf, Germany, the 14 fighters have all gathered in Las Vegas with one goal – to become the next “The Ultimate Fighter.” During the ten episode run of the show, under the tutelage of coaches Lesnar and dos Santos, the competitors endure a grueling regimen of jiu-jitsu, judo, Muay Thai, karate, boxing and wrestling. The intense competition among the fighters continues after they leave the gym – at the Ultimate Fighter House. These warriors must live together, knowing that any day they might be forced to fight each other in the famed UFC Octagon.
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Episodes11
DatesMar 30, 2011 - Jun 4, 2011
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 14

Season 14

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller

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.

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Episodes12
DatesSep 21, 2011 - Dec 3, 2011
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 15

Season 15

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

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.

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Episodes13
DatesMar 9, 2012 - Jun 1, 2012
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 16

Season 16

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

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.

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Episodes14
DatesSep 14, 2012 - Dec 15, 2012
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 17

Season 17

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen

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 the right to be called "The Ultimate Fighter."

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Episodes13
DatesJan 22, 2013 - Apr 13, 2013
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 18

Season 18

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate

Women will compete on The Ultimate Fighter for the first time, as eight female and male bantamweights battle for 2 six-figure UFC contracts. UFC Champion Ronda Rousey coaches against rival, Miesha Tate, in one of the most bitter coaching match ups ever.
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Episodes15
DatesSep 4, 2013 - Nov 30, 2013
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 19

Season 19

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Edgar vs. Team Penn

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. Only one man from each weight class will walk away with a six-figure UFC contract and the title of The Ultimate Fighter.

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Episodes15
DatesApr 16, 2014 - Jul 6, 2014
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 20

Season 20

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

For the first time ever, The Ultimate Fighter competition will determine a champion. In a groundbreaking new season, 16 of the top 115-pound female fighters in the world will be hand-picked to form a new women's strawweight division in the UFC. The fighters will live together in the house, train under coaches Gilbert Melendez and current lightweight champion Anthony Pettis, and battle it out in a tournament-style bracket. In the end only one woman will be crowned champion, and earn the first-ever UFC strawweight belt.
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Episodes15
DatesSep 10, 2014 - Dec 12, 2014
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 21

Season 21

The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians

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.

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Episodes15
DatesApr 22, 2015 - Jul 12, 2015
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 22

Season 22

The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber

Conor McGregor, one of the most charismatic fighters in a generation, will be a coach on the new season of the seminal mixed martial arts competition show “The Ultimate Fighter”. McGregor is at the forefront of a new wave of talented European fighters determined to make their mark in the UFC. For the first time a team of Europeans, led by McGregor, will get a shot at becoming the Ultimate Fighter. Standing in their way are the American lightweights led by WEC and UFC legend Uriah Faber. What ensues is a truly global battle between the best up and coming lightweights in the world for a six figure contract with the UFC.
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Episodes14
DatesSep 9, 2015 - Dec 11, 2015
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 23

Season 23

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia

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.

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Episodes15
DatesApr 20, 2016 - Jul 8, 2016
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 24

Season 24

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

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.

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Episodes13
DatesAug 31, 2016 - Dec 3, 2016
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 25

Season 25

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

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.

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Episodes13
DatesApr 19, 2017 - Jul 7, 2017
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 26

Season 26

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

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.

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Episodes15
DatesAug 30, 2017 - Dec 1, 2017
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 27

Season 27

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

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 Cormier and UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic take the helm as coaches, and the competition kicks off with the first preliminary matchup.

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DatesApr 18, 2018 - Jul 6, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 28

Season 28

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

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 battling it out for two UFC contracts. They'll be coached by TUF: The Smashes winner and current UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker and TUF 17 winner and top middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum.

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DatesAug 29, 2018 - Nov 30, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 29

Season 29

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

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 to make the UFC roster.

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Episodes15
DatesJun 1, 2021 - Aug 28, 2021
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 30

Season 30

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Peña vs Team Nunes

The Ultimate Fighter: Peña vs Nunes showcases a dynamic cast of 16 ascending athletes in the men’s heavyweight (265 lbs.) and women’s flyweight (125 lbs.) divisions. Coached by UFC Bantamweight champion, and winner of The Ultimate Fighter Season 18, Peña and UFC Featherweight champion Nunes, these UFC hopefuls have put everything else in their lives aside for the chance to pursue their dreams.
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Episodes13
DatesMay 3, 2022 - Aug 6, 2022
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 31

Season 31

The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Chandler

Two mixed martial arts superstars battle it out on The Ultimate Fighter this year, as “The Notorious” Conor McGregor coaches a team of UFC hopefuls for the second time when he is pitted against top lightweight contender Michael Chandler in what should be one of the most explosive seasons of the long-running reality show. The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs Team Chandler, premieres on ESPN and ESPN+ on May 30. The two coaches will then square off in the Octagon on a date to be announced.
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Episodes12
DatesMay 30, 2023 - Aug 15, 2023
The Ultimate Fighter - Season 32

Season 32

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Grasso vs. Team Shevchenko

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DatesJun 4, 2024 - Aug 20, 2024

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