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Both coaches were participating in a series of TUF for the second time. Hughes was a coach on The Ultimate Fighter 2 and Serra won the welterweight tournament on The Ultimate Fighter 4. Unlike in previous seasons, the winner of a match did not determine which team picked the next match.
The Ultimate Fighter was originally an experimental series financed by the former owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III.The series was aired on Spike TV as a last resort measure to gain mainstream exposure for mixed martial arts (MMA).
The main event was originally scheduled to have The Ultimate Fighter 6 coaches Matt Serra and Matt Hughes for Serra's UFC Welterweight Championship, which Serra won at UFC 69: Shootout on April 7, 2007, in an upset victory over Georges St-Pierre. [2]
Serra defeated Pete Spratt, Shonie Carter and Chris Lytle en route to becoming The Ultimate Fighter 4 Welterweight Tournament Winner. He captured the UFC Welterweight Championship immediately after. Serra also served as the head coach for The Ultimate Fighter 6 reality show opposite Matt Hughes, and he is a member of the UFC Hall of Fame.
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Grasso vs. Team Shevchenko (also known as The Ultimate Fighter 32 and TUF 32) is a 2024 installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)-produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter on ESPN+.
The Coaches' Challenge is held between Griffin and Jackson. They play "Ultimate Fighter" Horse for $10,000. The winning coach's fighters were originally to win $1,000 each. White challenges Jackson to make a three-point shot to double the fighter's payouts. Jackson, who claims to be very bad at basketball, makes the three-point shot.
As a coach makes a pick, the corresponding fighter based on seed will go to the other coach (e.g., if the #1 seeded fighter is picked by a coach, the #16 seeded fighter will go to the other coach). The eight coaches' picks (and corresponding seed sent to the other team as well as the organizations they are champions):
The Ultimate Fighter 5: Himself Guest coach 2007 The Ultimate Fighter 6: Himself Head coach 2009 FightZone Presents: Himself TV episode: "UWC: Man O'War - Part 2" 2011 The Ultimate Fighter 13: Himself Guest coach 2011 — present: Trophy Hunters TV: Himself 2016 — 2017 Kingdom (U.S. TV series) Himself Fighter