The BEST seasons of The Ultimate Fighter

#1 - Team Rousey vs. Team Tate

First Aired 9/5/2013

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 Champion Ronda Rousey coaches against rival, Miesha Tate, in one of the most bitter coaching match ups ever.

#2 - Heavy Hitters

First Aired 8/30/2018

#3 - Tournament of Champions

First Aired 9/1/2016

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 “Mighty Mouse” Johnson. They'll train under top UFC flyweight contenders Henry Cejudo and Joseph Benavidez. The winner earns a UFC contract, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, and will fight Demetrious on the live finale.

#4 - Undefeated

First Aired 4/19/2018

On this season of The Ultimate Fighter, every competitor is undefeated. Eight featherweights and eight lightweights from around the world will enter the competition, but who will remain unbeaten and win the UFC contracts? UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier and UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic take the helm as coaches.

#5 - American Top Team vs. Blackzilians

First Aired 4/23/2015

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 and for all, which team reigns in South Florida.

#6 - A Champion Will Be Crowned

First Aired 9/11/2014

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 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.

#7 - Team Joanna vs. Team Claudia

First Aired 4/21/2016

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 elimination fights to get into the house. The coaches, UFC strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk and #1 contender Claudia Gadelha, watch the fights alongside UFC President Dana White. The two coaches pick their teams from the winners, and the first preliminary matchup is announced.

#8 - The Ultimate Fighter

First Aired 1/18/2005

#9 - Team McGregor vs. Team Faber

First Aired 9/10/2015

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 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.

#10 - Peña vs Nunes

First Aired 5/4/2022

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 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.

#11 - Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck

First Aired 9/16/2010

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

#12 - The Ultimate Fighter 5

First Aired 4/6/2007

#13 - Heavyweights

First Aired 9/17/2009

Literally the biggest season ever! The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights will showcase 16 of the best unsigned heavyweight MMA fighters in the world. Featuring former UFC light heavyweight champions Rashad Evans and Quinton Jackson as coaches. Follow the cast of notable athletes with impressive pedigrees including four former NFL players, UFC veterans, a former IFL heavyweight champ, and a highly-publicized former EliteXC fighter who gained prominence through his non-sanctioned bouts on YouTube.

#14 - Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson

First Aired 9/15/2012

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.

#15 - Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen

First Aired 1/23/2013

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 the right to be called "The Ultimate Fighter."

#16 - Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz

First Aired 4/1/2010

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 tournament. 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...

#17 - Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest

First Aired 4/3/2008

#18 - Team Bisping vs. Team Miller

First Aired 9/22/2011

For the first time in the history of The Ultimate Fighter reality series, the ultra-exciting featherweight and bantamweight divisions will take center stage as 32 prospects, led by coaches Michael Bisping and Jason Miller, fight it out for a UFC contract.

#19 - Team Cormier vs Team Sonnen

First Aired 5/28/2025

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.

#20 - Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos

First Aired 3/31/2011

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 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.

#21 - The Ultimate Fighter 2

First Aired 8/23/2005

#22 - The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback

First Aired 8/18/2006

#23 - Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir

First Aired 9/18/2008

The eighth season of The Ultimate Fighter features Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Minotauro Nogeira and former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir as coaches to 16 fighters competing for the chance to show they belong in the Octagon.

#24 - Team Hughes vs. Team Serra

First Aired 9/20/2007

#25 - United States vs. United Kingdom

First Aired 4/2/2009

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 England to watch 16 of Great Britain's toughest welterweights and lightweights fight their way onto coach Michael Bisping's UK Team.

#26 - Team Edgar vs. Team Penn

First Aired 4/17/2014

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 in, coaches and former world champions BJ Penn and Frankie Edgar pick their squads. Only one man from each weight class will walk away with a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle, a six-figure UFC contract, and the title of The Ultimate Fighter.

#27 - Redemption

First Aired 4/20/2017

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.

#28 - Team Alvarez vs Team Gaethje

First Aired 8/31/2017

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.

#29 - Team Grasso vs Team Shevchenko

First Aired 6/5/2024

#30 - Live

First Aired 3/10/2012

#31 - The Ultimate Fighter 3

First Aired 4/7/2006

#32 - Team Volkanovski vs Team Ortega

First Aired 6/2/2021

#33 - Team McGregor vs Team Chandler

First Aired 5/31/2023

The 31st season of The Ultimate Fighter® could be the biggest in the show’s history, as former UFC® featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor and No. 5 ranked lightweight contender Michael Chandler go head-to-head as coaches. Following the series, the two coaches will prepare to square off at a date that will be determined in the near future. The Ultimate Fighter Season 31: Team McGregor vs. Team Chandler will feature a dynamic cast consisting of both returning veterans and up and coming prospects in the men’s bantamweight (135 lbs.) and lightweight (155 lbs.) divisions, who have put everything else in their lives aside for the chance to pursue their UFC dreams.