The Ultimate Fighter

Season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on January 17, 2005

The Ultimate Fighter 2

Season 2 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on August 22, 2005

The Ultimate Fighter 3

Season 3 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on April 6, 2006

The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback

Season 4 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on August 17, 2006

The Ultimate Fighter 5

Season 5 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on April 5, 2007

Team Hughes vs. Team Serra

Season 6 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on September 19, 2007

Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest

Season 7 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on April 2, 2008

Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir

Season 8 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on September 17, 2008

The eighth season of The Ultimate Fighter features Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Minotauro Nogeira and former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir as...Read more

United States vs. United Kingdom

Season 9 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on April 1, 2009

For the first time ever, The Ultimate Fighter will be country vs. country as the United States takes on the United Kingdom. Dana White travels to Engl...Read more

Heavyweights

Season 10 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on September 16, 2009

Literally the biggest season ever! The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights will showcase 16 of the best unsigned heavyweight MMA fighters in the world. Fea...Read more

Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz

Season 11 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on March 31, 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 ...Read more

Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck

Season 12 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on September 14, 2010

In the contest to find the next Ultimate Fighter, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre leads his team of fighters into battle against Josh Kosc...Read more

Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos

Season 13 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on March 30, 2011

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 ...Read more

Team Bisping vs. Team Miller

Season 14 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on September 21, 2011

For the first time in the history of The Ultimate Fighter reality series, the ultra-exciting featherweight and bantamweight divisions will take center...Read more

Live

Season 15 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on March 9, 2012

Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson

Season 16 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on September 14, 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 coach...Read more

Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen

Season 17 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on January 22, 2013

Coaches Chael Sonnen and UFC light heavyweight champion Jon "Bones" Jones guide 14 promising middleweights through a brutal competition of skill and d...Read more

Team Rousey vs. Team Tate

Season 18 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on September 4, 2013

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 Champ...Read more

Team Edgar vs. Team Penn

Season 19 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on April 16, 2014

16 middleweights and 16 light heavyweights battle it out in a day of elimination fights, hoping for a coveted spot in The Ultimate Fighter house. Once...Read more

A Champion Will Be Crowned

Season 20 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on September 10, 2014

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 fi...Read more

American Top Team vs. Blackzilians

Season 21 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on April 22, 2015

In the twenty-first season of The Ultimate Fighter, two gyms battle it out in the octagon to settle the score in their bitter rivalry and decide, once...Read more

Team McGregor vs. Team Faber

Season 22 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on September 9, 2015

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 ...Read more

Team Joanna vs. Team Claudia

Season 23 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on April 20, 2016

For the first time ever light heavyweight men and strawweight women will compete on The Ultimate Fighter. But first they must face off in 16 eliminati...Read more

Tournament of Champions

Season 24 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on August 30, 2016

Sixteen flyweight champions from around the world come to Las Vegas to compete for the ultimate prize: a title shot at current UFC champion Demetrious...Read more

Redemption

Season 25 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on April 19, 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 st...Read more

Team Alvarez vs Team Gaethje

Season 26 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on August 30, 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 com...Read more

Undefeated

Season 27 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on April 18, 2018

On this season of The Ultimate Fighter, every competitor is undefeated. Eight featherweights and eight lightweights from around the world will enter t...Read more

Heavy Hitters

Season 28 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on August 29, 2018

Team Volkanovski vs Team Ortega

Season 29 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on June 1, 2021

Peña vs Nunes

Season 30 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on May 3, 2022

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 l...Read more

Team McGregor vs Team Chandler

Season 31 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on May 30, 2023

The 31st season of The Ultimate Fighter® could be the biggest in the show’s history, as former UFC® featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGre...Read more

Team Grasso vs Team Shevchenko

Season 32 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on June 4, 2024

Team Cormier vs Team Sonnen

Season 33 of The Ultimate Fighter premiered on May 27, 2025

Get Ready For The 20th Anniversary Season Of The Toughest Tournament In All Of Sports in The Ultimate Fighter: Team Cormier vs Team Sonnen - The Good Guy vs The Bad Guy.