The Ultimate Fighter 2

Cast

Coaches

• Matt Hughes, head coach of blue team
• Rich Franklin, head coach of green team

  Fighters

• Team Franklin
• *Welterweights : Jorge Gurgel, Marcus Davis, Anthony Torres, Melvin Guillard
• *Heavyweights : Keith Jardine, Seth Petruzelli, Rashad Evans, Brad Imes
• Team Hughes
• *Welterweights : Joe Stevenson, Josh Burkman, Sammy Morgan, Luke Cummo
• *Heavyweights : Mike Whitehead, Dan Christison, Rob MacDonald, Tom Murphy
• Unassigned
• *Kenny Stevens, Kerry Schall, Eli Joslin.

Others

• Hosts: Dana White, Randy Couture
• Narrator: Mike Rowe

  Episodes

• Matt Hughes and Rich Franklin are introduced as the new coaches.
• Heavyweight Kerry Schall is eliminated due to a knee injury.
• Eli Joslin chooses to leave the show, citing his reasons as not being able to handle the camera environment at the house.
• Kenny Stevens is chosen as the weakest welterweight and calls out Sammy Morgan to fight.
• Stevens forfeits his match saying he will not be able to make weight for the fight.

• Dan Christison joins the show to replace the injured Schall.
• A coin is flipped and Franklin chose to pick the first fighter.

• Team Hughes wins the welterweight challenge.
• Josh Burkman defeated Melvin Guillard by unanimous decision after three rounds.

• Josh Burkman is forced to leave the competition after breaking his arm in the match with Melvin Guillard.
• Rob MacDonald complains about his shoulder which he claims he injured very badly. His constant complaining upsets Team Hughes, especially Hughes himself.
• Jason Von Flue joins the show to replace Burkman.
• Team Hughes wins the heavyweight challenge.
• Brad Imes defeated Rob MacDonald by submission at 4:07 of the first round.

• Team Franklin wins the welterweight challenge.
• Joe Stevenson defeated Marcus Davis by submission at 4:10 of the first round.

• Team Hughes wins the heavyweight challenge.
• Rashad Evans defeated Tom Murphy by unanimous decision after three rounds.
• Evans causes controversy by "showboating" at various stages of the fight, much to the chagrin of opposing coach Hughes. White states that this was one of the more boring fights he has seen.

• Hughes expresses disgust at Rashad Evans' actions in the octagon during the previous episode.
• Evans laments that Hughes was someone that he once respected and quotes Bernie Mac's "be yourself" line from House Party 3.
• Team Hughes wins the welterweight scarecrow challenge after the green team forfeits to save their fighters.
• Jason Von Flue defeated Jorge Gurgel by unanimous decision after three rounds.

• Hughes does not seem to care about Jason Von Flue winning his fight with Gurgel and is even playing cards in the locker room while the doctors look at Von Flue.
• Matt Hughes says in an interview that even if Von Flue had lost, he would not have cared or considered it a loss.
• Team Franklin wins the heavyweight mud wrestling challenge.
• After receiving stitches from his fight, Von Flue does not receive any congrats from Team Hughes when he returns to the house.
• Hughes sends Von Flue over to Team Franklin for reshuffling.
• Von Flue is upset about this, especially because he won his fight, and curses Hughes.
• Seth Petruzelli defeated Dan Christison by unanimous decision after three rounds.

• Team Hughes wins the welterweight "Randy Says" challenge after Jason Von Flue and Anthony Torres fail to obey Couture's directions.
• Franklin sends Brad Imes to Team Hughes for reshuffling.
• Luke Cummo defeated Anthony Torres by unanimous decision after three rounds.

• Team Hughes wins the heavyweight challenge resoundingly.
• Brad Imes is passed over for a fight due to a cut over his eye received in training, so Whitehead is chosen to fight instead.
• Rashad Evans defeats Mike Whitehead by unanimous decision after three rounds.
• The fight leaves the blue team, Hughes, and White shocked due to Whitehead's lackluster effort. White says that he choked "To the point where there is 10 seconds left and he just stops fighting, I've never seen that."

• After his loss to Rashad Evans, Mike Whitehead tells his team that he is done fighting. White asks him what happened because Whitehead was the favorite to win the whole thing and he simply replies "I guess I'm not a fighter."
• Jason Von Flue sustains a cut between the eyes in practice, so Marcus Davis is brought back as an alternate in the case of Von Flue being unable to fight.
• The rest of the matches are set up by White, Franklin, and Hughes with input from fighters; the matches are: Cummo against Morgan, Joe Stevenson against Von Flue, Brad Imes vs. Seth Petruzelli, and Evans against Keith Jardine.
• Luke Cummo defeated Sammy Morgan by KO at 2:05 of the second round.

• Rashad Evans defeated Keith Jardine by unanimous decision after three rounds.

• Von Flue is cleared by the doctors to fight.
• Joe Stevenson defeated Jason Von Flue by submission at 4:46 of the first round.
• Stevenson and Luke Cummo will face each other in the final for UFC contract.
• Brad Imes defeated Seth Petruzelli by split decision after three rounds.
• White believes that Imes did enough to win and believes that this split decision should have been unanimous.
• Petruzelli suffers extensive damage to his right ear and Imes will face Rashad Evans in the finale.
• In an interesting note, even though Cummo and Imes were both the last picked for their respective divisions, they both made it to the finale.

  Welterweight Bracket

Heavyweight Bracket

The Ultimate Fighter 2 Finale

Results