Chuck Liddell against Randy Couture, middleweight and light heavyweight.
Professional bouts from our fight records, on a sanctioned card. They are separate from the house bouts below, which never count toward a professional record.
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Couture vs. Team Liddell FinaleApr 9, 2005All 16 contestants made their UFC debut on this card, by our records.
As originally drafted, in pick order. Moves and exits link to the episode they happened in. Contestants link to their canonical profile where one exists.
Episode by episode: the bouts that aired and the sourced competition events. Results are the tournament’s own record below; an episode only says where they aired. Air dates are shown only where the network listing and an independent source give the same day.
Professional: 2 · House results verified: 10 · House exhibitions: 10
Elimination fights, then semi-finals, then live finals. Team challenges decided which team chose the next matchup, and the loser of each fight left the competition. Early challenges also eliminated fighters without a fight. A fighter could fight more than once, and a fighter could reach the last four without a house fight.
Result and classification are separate. A reported winner comes from the season record alone; a verified one is stated by an official source or our own result records. Only sourced professional bouts count toward a professional record — house exhibitions and unresolved house bouts never do.
timeline:josh_rafferty_trade_episode — Josh Rafferty's move to Team Couture is placed in episode 7 by the season source's episode bullets and in episode 8 by the season draft imported on 2026-09-07. The network listing does not mention the trade. Left unresolved.
Season data from the season record, retrieved 2026-09-07. The finale card now holds nine bouts — backfill window B-2005 loaded them — so BOTH finals are VERIFIED against our own ufc_bout_results rows rather than sourced. Our records and the season source agree exactly on both: Griffin over Bonnar by unanimous decision in round three, and Sanchez over Florian by TKO in round one at 2:49. Nothing is imported; the card's bouts live on the event page and are linked, not restated. House results, fight dates and classification are from the Nevada State Athletic Commission's Season 1 results record (tuf1-nsac-reconciliation). The draft's differing values are kept in each bout's corrections; its compatible extra method detail is kept as secondary detail.
Draft order from the season source's episode 1 team-selection table (Wikipedia, secondary). Rosters are as originally assigned; moves are timeline events.
Known source defects kept as found: The listing's titles for episodes 11 (Middleweight Semi-Final #2) and 12 (Light Heavyweight Semi-Finals) agree with every other source, but its two descriptions are swapped: item 11 describes the light heavyweight semi-finals and item 12 the last middleweight final spot; The display date is one day after the listing date for every item (19:00 Pacific rendered as the next UTC day).
