Two former UFC light-heavyweight champions are making a comeback in the 11th season of the reality television series The Ultimate Fighter.
Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell was the original coach in the inaugural season 1 of the show opposite Randy Couture while Tito “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Ortiz had a previous stint as a coach opposite Ken Shamrock in the 3rd season.
TUF Season 11 is officially titled as The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs Team Ortiz and features 28 fighters in the middleweight division as opposed to the usual 16 or 32.
In The Ultimate Fighter Season 11 Episode 1 premiere on March 31, 2010 at 10 PM ET/PT, the contestants were introduced and the two coaches get to select their fighters. TUF s11e1 is titled Smashed Up.
It was shown right after UFC Fight Night 21: Kenny Florian vs Takanori Gomi LIVE at Spike TV.
Meet the contestants and the elimination round in the TUF 11 Episode 1 video below:
Watch The Ultimate Fighter Season 11 Episode 2 next on April 7, 2010.
Check out the other The Ultimate Fighter Season 11 episodes as well.
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- TUF 11 Episode 10: Shocked and Awed We all know that instead of Tito Ortiz fighting Chuck Liddell in the main event of the UFC 115 fight...
- TUF 11 Episode 6: Did Your Dizzle After winning its first fight with Jamie Yager in Episode 4, Team Punishment had assumed control and chooses his fighter...
- TUF 11 Episode 11: A Will to Win Yes, that’s former UFC Light Heavyweight Champ Forrest Griffin. Behind him is undefeated fighter Gray Maynard. Along with Tyson Griffin,...
- TUF 11 Episode 3: A Lotta Heart Fourteen fighters survived the elimination round and now has entered the house. In TUF 11 episode 2, we see who...
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March 31st, 2010 at 2:12 am
[...] show will have its season premiere on March 31, 2010 at 10 PM ET/PT, following Spike TV’s airing of UFC Fight Night 21, which [...]
March 31st, 2010 at 5:05 pm
[...] The two headlines the UFC Fight Night 21: Florian vs. Gomi. This is a side-event for the UFC and is shown on free TV (Spike TV channel) as the preliminary for The Ultimate Fighter Season 11 premiere. [...]
April 6th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
[...] the premiere episode of the new season of The Ultimate Fighter, UFC President Dana White meets the fighters; all 28 of [...]