The Ultimate Fighter Season 11: Liddell vs. Ortiz

A preview of the upcoming 11th season of The Ultimate Fighter.

Team Liddell

Head Coach: Chuck Liddell
Assistant Coaches: Howard Davis Jr., Scott Epstein, John Hackleman, Jake Shields

Team Ortiz

Head Coach: Tito “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Ortiz
Assistant Coaches: Cleber Luciano, Rob “Razor” McCullough, Saul Soliz

28 Middleweight Fighters: Rich Attonito, Seth Baczynski, Charles Blanchard, Josh Bryant, Chris Camozzi, Brent Cooper, Jacen Flynn, James Hammortree, Joseph Henle, Charley Lynch, Kris McCray, Court McGee, Clayton McKinney, Kyle Noke, Victor O’Donnell, Norman Paraisy, Constantinos Philippou, Greg Rebello, Nick Ring, Jordan Smith, Ben Stark, Lyle Steffens, Brad Tavares, Warren Thompson, Kyacey Uscola, Cleburn Walker, Jamie Yager, Woody Weatherby

Episode 1

All 28 fighters will have to fight to get on the show. The 14 winning fighters will make the show automatically. A new format for the remaining 2 fighter wildcard spots for the show will be announced on the show, which premieres March 31, 2010, at 10 pm on SpikeTV right after UFC Fight Night 21: Florian vs. Gomi.

Picking the Teams

During the first 14 fights, the coaches will analyze the fighters and set up their own rankings for the draft. At the draft, the coaches will choose their fighters to represent their team for the duration of the show. It has been rumored that there might be some former cast members from previous shows to be entered as the 2 wildcard spots.

Chuck Liddell

Chuck Liddell is a active Hall of Famer in the UFC and he is considered by a lot of people as the best light heavyweight of all-time. He is 21-7 for his MMA career and 4 of his 7 losses came in his last five fights as he is getting closer to retirement, which just shows how stellar his career has been. Maybe the most feared striker in MMA history, “The Iceman” holds 13 KO’s and is one scary man to step in the cage with. In his prime, he was virtually untouchabl. He ran through the UFC light heavyweight division, winning seven straight fights and winning the belt from UFC HoF fighter Randy Couture. Liddell defended it four times until he finally lost it to Quinton Jackson at UFC 71.

Tito Ortiz

Tito can make his own argument though for the best light heavyweight of all-time with his UFC record five light heavyweight title defenses. He’s 15-7-1, losing three of his last four and is also halfway out the door to retirement himself. He has beaten Vitor Belfort, Wanderlei Silva, and UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock three times. The biggest reason that I believe Chuck is better than Tito is because Chuck beat him down in the 2 fights that they had against each other. At this point in these fighters’ careers though, I do believe that Tito can beat Chuck. I don’t think Liddell has the same stamina and chin that he has shown us in his career. Tito might be able to wear him down with his trademark ground-and-pound.

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