Chuck Liddell against Randy Couture, middleweight and light heavyweight.
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Couture vs. Team Liddell Finale2005-04-09Read from our own event records. The card’s bouts are not restated here — there is one copy of every professional result and it lives on the event page.
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2 professional · 10 exhibition or unverified. House bouts are unsanctioned and are excluded from professional records and every professional stat aggregate.
Partial. Sam Hoger is described as reaching the semi-finals without a stated bout, and Bobby Southworth appears as both a winner and a loser in this round. See conflicts.
light_heavyweight_quarter_finals — The source lists Bobby Southworth as both a quarter-final winner (over Lodune Sincaid) and a quarter-final loser (to Stephan Bonnar) in the same round, and asserts Sam Hoger reached the semi-finals without naming a bout. The three stated bouts are recorded; the round is marked partial rather than reordered into something the source does not say.
middleweight_quarter_finals — Diego Sanchez is listed twice in the quarter-finals, against Alex Karalexis and against Josh Rafferty, and Kenny Florian is placed in the semi-finals without a stated bout. Recorded as given, marked partial.
assistant_coaches — Marc Laimon, Ganyao Fairtex and Peter Welch are listed as assistant coaches for the season without being assigned to a team. Recorded without a team rather than guessed onto one.
Season data from the season record, retrieved 2026-09-07. The finale card exists in ufc_events but holds zero bouts — it is one of the twenty pre-2015 shells the historical backfill has not reached. The two finals are therefore SOURCED but not verified against our own records, and are marked as such. Nothing is imported.
The bout credited with changing the sport's commercial trajectory. Contested on the sanctioned finale card, so it counts as a professional bout.
Partial. Diego Sanchez is listed twice in this round and Kenny Florian is placed in the semi-finals without a stated bout. See conflicts.
Chris Leben returned to the tournament here after Nathan Quarry withdrew with an ankle injury.
