The Ultimate Fighter 1

Cast

Coaches

• Chuck Liddell, head coach of blue team
• Randy Couture, head coach of green team
• Marc Laimon, grappling coach
• Ganyao Fairtex, Muay Thai coach
• Peter Welch, boxing coach

  Fighters

• Light heavyweights
• *Team Liddell: Bobby Southworth, Sam Hoger, Forrest Griffin, Alex Schoenauer
• *Team Couture: Stephan Bonnar, Mike Swick, Lodune Sincaid, Jason Thacker
• Middleweights
• *Team Liddell: Josh Koscheck, Diego Sanchez, Kenny Florian, Josh Rafferty
• *Team Couture: Nathan Quarry, Chris Leben, Alex Karalexis, Chris Sanford

  Others

• Hosts: Dana White, Willa Ford
• Narrator: Mike Rowe

  Episodes

• The 16 fighters are driven to the UFC Training Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, where they meet Willa Ford, Dana White, and the coaches, Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell.
• At the house, Chris Leben keeps on drinking heavily, and starts to make fun of Jason Thacker, and give people nicknames.
• At 2:00 am, while Thacker is in the shower, Leben decides to urinate on his teammate's pillow, without him noticing.
• The fighters are woken up at 5:00 am by Couture and Liddell, and the first day of training proves too much for almost half of the fighters.
• During the jiu jitsu training, Nate Quarry cuts himself on his chin after landing a takedown.
• After the second day of training, Thacker talks to Couture and says that the training is too much for him, but Couture talks him into staying and trying to get the training done.
• On the 4th day, everyone is ready to spar, except for Thacker, because of the training, so Bobby Southworth and Lodune Sincaid decide to talk him into going with them, saying they need him and he is part of the team.
• While Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar are sparring, Griffin accidentally headbutts Bonnar, causing a need for stitches.
• Light heavyweight and middleweight teams are chosen by coaches Liddell and Couture:

• Diego Sanchez and Stephen Bonnar argue over asparagus, because Sanchez ate the asparagus heads and left the stalks in the fridge.
• Team Liddell wins the first light heavyweight challenge.
• Later that night, Lodune Sincaid is making jokes about being homosexual, like dressing in dresses.
• Jason Thacker is sent home by Couture.
• Chris Leben and Sincaid continue to drink and starts to offend people. Later, a drunk Leben decides to hop the wall and find a pay phone to call someone, not mentioned.
• The next morning at practice, Couture finds out about the incident, and Leben and Sincaid apologize for their actions.
• Team Liddell wins the first middleweight Challenge.
• Chris Sanford is sent home by Couture.

• Alex Schoenauer wins the light heavyweight challenge. Bobby Southworth comes in last and will be forced to fight in the elimination bout.
• Team Liddell chooses Southworth to fight Lodune Sincaid.
• Southworth has to cut 20 lb. in 24 hours, with the help of Josh Koscheck and Liddell, but he comes in at 208 lb, so the Nevada State Athletic Commission gives Southworth 2 hours to cut 2 pounds, and he successfully makes it to 206 lb.
• Southworth describes the weight cut as "pure hell."
• Bobby Southworth defeated Lodune Sincaid by KO at 0:12 of the second round.

• Alex Schoenauer is traded to Team Couture as part of a team reshuffle.
• Team Liddell wins the middleweight challenge and the opportunity to schedule the next fight.
• The blue team chooses Sanchez to fight Karalexis.
• Diego Sanchez defeated Alex Karalexis by submission at 1:47 of the first round.

• Nate Quarry injures his ankle after Couture lands on his ankle during a takedown in practice.
• White decides to allow the fighters to have a night out at the Hard Rock Cafe, and had a few drinks, and some of them get drunk.
• At 2:00 am, the fighters are drunk and continuing to drink, and Josh Rafferty says that there is no more alcohol in the house.
• By the pool, Chris Leben says something that angers Bobby Southworth, and then Southworth calls Leben a "fatherless bastard," which hurts Leben's feelings. Five minutes later, Southworth apologizes to Leben, but seems insincere.
• Leben decides to sleep outside to stay away from the other fighters.
• At 3:30 am, Josh Koscheck and Southworth continue to drink and then decide to pull a prank on Leben, by spraying water on the Team Couture member while he is sleeping. This wakes Leben, and causes him to go on a rampage by punching the front door window with his left hand, which cuts his knuckle skin off. Leben then punches Forrest Griffin's door in half, and Griffin later comments that there are pieces of the bedroom door in his bed.
• The next day, White tells Couture and Liddell what happened the previous night between Southworth, Koscheck, and Leben. The fighters are then brought in to explain what happened.
• White decides that the only fair way to resolve the situation is for Koscheck and Leben to fight.

• As fallout from the previous episode, there is no challenge and White schedules the middleweight fight between Leben and Koscheck.
• Josh Koscheck defeated Chris Leben by unanimous decision after two rounds.

• Josh Rafferty is traded to Team Couture in another team reshuffle.
• Team Couture wins the light heavyweight challenge.
• Stephan Bonnar defeated Bobby Southworth by split decision after 2 rounds.

• After his fight with Stephen Bonnar, Bobby Southworth and White have a shouting match about Southworth's attitude and disrespectfulness.
• Nate Quarry is eliminated from the show due to his ankle injury. White asks Quarry to stay on as an assistant coach, and he agrees.
• Quarry gets to choose his replacement from the loser's lounge, and he chooses Chris Leben.
• Team Couture wins the middleweight challenge.
• Diego Sanchez defeated Josh Rafferty by submission at 1:48 of the first round.

• Kenny Florian is traded to Team Couture in another team reshuffle.
• Team Liddell wins the light heavyweight challenge.
• Sam Hoger is accused of stealing from the other competitors.
• Forrest Griffin defeated Alex Schoenauer by submission at 1:20 of the first round.
• During his fight with Schoenauer, Griffin receives a cut above his left eye that doctors think is possibly severe enough to prevent him from fighting again.

• Forrest Griffin has to choose a light heavyweight fighter to come back into the house in the case he gets sent home. He chooses Bobby Southworth, who is not given the chance to fight, as Griffin is cleared.
• Kenny Florian defeated Chris Leben by TKO at 3:11 of the second round.

• Diego Sanchez defeated Josh Koscheck by split decision after three rounds.

• Forrest Griffin defeated Sam Hoger by TKO at 1:05 of the second round.
• Stephan Bonnar defeated Mike Swick by submission at 4:58 of the first round.

  Light heavyweight bracket

Middleweight bracket

The Ultimate Fighter 1 Finale

Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar fight

Results

Coaches' Fight