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February 4, 2022
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ESPN app. “The Ultimate Fighter” will truly never die. The Ultimate Fighting Championship released the
news on Friday that TUF 30 will commence on May 3. All 12 episodes
of the season will air on ESPN+, and coaches for the teams will be
bantamweight champ Julianna
Pena against featherweight queen Amanda
Nunes. The lineup will consist of heavyweights as well as
women’s flyweights, with eight participants in the ranks of each
division.
In the heavyweight division, the cast members include: unbeaten
up-and-comer Nyle
Bartling, Professional Fighters League vet Chandler
Cole, ex-Legacy Fighting Alliance powerhouse Jordan
Heiderman, former UFC light heavyweight Rob
MacDonald, LFA and Cage Warriors Fighting Championship upstart
Zac
Pauga, ex-Combate Global prospect Eduardo
Perez, 2018 Dana White’s Contender Series participant
Mitchell
Sipe and the brother of UFC welterweight champ in Mohammed
Usman.
For women’s flyweights, seven of the eight women that make up the
weight category competed for Invicta Fighting Championships, and the lineup
includes: “Killa” Chantel
Coates, “Grizzly” Claire
Guthrie, “Killer” Juliana
Miller, “Katniss” Kaytlin
Neil, 2021 Contender Series prospect Kathryn
Paprocki, “Bella Bestia” Melissa
Oddessa Parker, “Iansa” Helen
Peralta and “The Bear” Brogan
Walker.
At the end of the season, the two coaches will toe the line in the
rematch for the bantamweight belt, likely taking place around the
summer around International Fight Week. They first came to blows at
UFC 269 in December, and Pena sprang
one of the biggest upsets in company history by submitting
Nunes in the second frame. In victory, Pena became one of a small
handful of fighters to come up and win their season of TUF before
earning a UFC belt, and she will now be coaching a team ahead of
her first title defense.
