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The Ultimate Fighter

The Ultimate Fighter

ESPN+ 2005

Sixteen aspiring mixed martial artists live together, train together and compete against each other to become the Ultimate Fighter. They receive coaching from UFC champions and contenders in a variety of martial arts including wrestling, boxing, judo, Jiu-Jitsu, karate and kickboxing. The winner receives a six-figure contract from the UFC.
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The Top 10 Actors and Characters of The Ultimate Fighter (Ranked Cast in 2024)

Dana White

#1 - Dana White (, Self, Self - President)

Dana Frederick White, Jr. is an American businessman. He is the President of the mixed martial arts organization Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Dana White plays as , Self, Self - President in The Ultimate Fighter.
Dana White is the top #1 member of the cast and appears in 233 episodes.

Randy Couture

#2 - Randy Couture (, Self - Team Captain)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Randy Duane Couture ( born June 22, 1963) is a retired American mixed martial artist, Greco-Roman wrestler, actor, a three-time former heavyweight champion and a two-time light-heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Couture is the first fighter to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (heavyweight and light heavyweight). Couture has competed in a record 15 title fights. He also holds the most title reigns in the UFC with five. His last fight with Lyoto Machida put him in a tie with Matt Hughes in having the highest number of fights in the UFC at 24. Couture is one of the first members of the UFC Hall of Fame and many consider him to be one of the greatest in MMA history. Couture is currently ranked as the #10 Light Heavyweight fighter in the world by Yahoo! Sports. Couture was an Olympic wrestling alternate and has lived in Corvallis, Oregon, throughout much of his career, where he served as an assistant wrestling coach and a strength and conditioning coach for Oregon State University. He established Team Quest with Matt Lindland and Dan Henderson, a training camp for fighters, based out of Gresham, Oregon, and headed by coach Robert Folis. In 2005, Couture moved to Las Vegas, where he opened his own extensive chain of gyms under the name Xtreme Couture. He currently trains at his Las Vegas-based gym. Couture also partnered with Bas Rutten in the opening of Legends Gym in Hollywood, California. Couture is generally recognized as a clinch and ground-and-pound fighter who uses his wrestling ability to execute take downs, establish top position and successively strike the opponent on the bottom. Couture has also displayed a variety of skills in Boxing, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; submitting three opponents using different chokeholds. Couture is the only athlete in UFC history to win a championship after becoming a Hall of Fame member and is the oldest title holder ever (in the UFC and MMA). Along with Chuck Liddell, Couture is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts into the mainstream of American sports and pop culture. Description above from the Wikipedia article Randy Couture, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Randy Couture plays as , Self - Team Captain in The Ultimate Fighter.
Randy Couture is the top #2 member of the cast and appears in 219 episodes.

Willa Ford

#3 - Willa Ford (Self - Host)

Amanda Lee Modano (nÊe Williford; born January 22, 1981), known professionally as Willa Ford and often as Mandy Modano, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, model, television personality and film actress. She released her debut album, Willa Was Here, in 2001. Ford also has acted in movies such as Friday the 13th, hosted several reality television shows, posed for Playboy and competed on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willa Ford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Willa Ford plays as Self - Host in The Ultimate Fighter.
Willa Ford is the top #3 member of the cast and appears in 16 episodes.

Chuck Liddell

#4 - Chuck Liddell (Self - Team Captain)

Chuck Liddell plays as Self - Team Captain in The Ultimate Fighter.
Chuck Liddell is the top #4 member of the cast and appears in 16 episodes.

Rich Franklin

#5 - Rich Franklin (Self - Team Captain)

Rich Jay Franklin II (born October 5, 1974) is an American mixed martial artist and former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rich Franklin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Rich Franklin plays as Self - Team Captain in The Ultimate Fighter.
Rich Franklin is the top #5 member of the cast and appears in 14 episodes.

Matt Hughes

#6 - Matt Hughes (Self - Team Captain)

Matthew Allen Hughes was born on October 13, 1973, in Hillsboro, Illinois. Hughes has two siblings, a sister and his twin brother, Mark. During high school they both played football and wrestling. Hughes went to Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville, Illinois, before transferring to Lincoln College, in Lincoln, Illinois and then on to Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. He is a retired mixed martial artist with a background in wrestling. Widely considered among the greatest fighters in the history of MMA, he is a two-time UFC Welterweight Champion, UFC Hall of Fame inductee, and NJCAA Hall of Fame inductee. During his tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Hughes put together two separate six-fight winning streaks, defeated all the available opposition in the welterweight division, and defended the belt a then-record seven times. Hughes was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in May 2010 during the UFC Fan Expo in conjunction with UFC 114.

Matt Hughes plays as Self - Team Captain in The Ultimate Fighter.
Matt Hughes is the top #6 member of the cast and appears in 14 episodes.

Mike Rowe

#7 - Mike Rowe (Host)

Michael Gregory Rowe (born March 18, 1962)  is an American television host and narrator. He is known for his work on the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs and the series Somebody's Gotta Do It originally developed for CNN. He hosted a series produced for Facebook called Returning the Favor in which he found people doing good deeds and did something for them in return. He also hosts a podcast titled The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe. Rowe has narrated programs on the Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, and National Geographic Channel such as Deadliest Catch, How the Universe Works, and Shark Week. He has also appeared in commercials for firms such as the Ford Motor Company. In June 2020, Discovery Channel announced Dirty Jobs: Rowe'd Trip, a four-episode miniseries, to be aired in mid-July 2020, billed as "part reunion, part road-trip, part look-back-special".

Mike Rowe plays as Host in The Ultimate Fighter.
Mike Rowe is the top #7 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Last updated: feb 10, 2023

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