UFC women’s bantamweight champion Julianna Peña is set to coach heavyweights and women’s flyweight hopefuls against longtime two division champion Amanda Nunes.
The two TUF coaches met in the Octagon last December, when Peña delivered a stunning upset win over Nunes to claim the bantamweight title. Now the two will go head-to-head on TUF before their highly anticipated rematch.
But before we dive into more information about the historic 30th season of TUF, let’s look back at some of the most iconic winners from the 29 previous seasons of the show:
The Winners
Forrest Griffin
There isn’t anyone else in the UFC quite like Tony Ferguson. He was the perfect personality for TUF, and he showed that was talented enough to compete with the best lightweights in the world. “El Cucuy” has been on an amazing run in his UFC career, winning 12 straight at one point and getting eight bonuses along the way. He secured the interim UFC lightweight championship and became one of the most popular fighters in the sport.
Don’t miss his next fight, which comes this Saturday, May 7, against Michael Chandler at UFC 274: Oliveira vs Geathje.
Julianna Peña
People might not remember this, but Carla Esparza won the inaugural UFC strawweight championship on season 20 of TUF. How did she do it? She submitted Rose Namajunas in the finale with a rear naked choke. On that season Esparza defeated Angela Hill, Tecia Torres, and Jessica Penne before facing Namajunas.
Esparza will get a second crack at Namajunas, who is now the strawweight champion, at UFC 274 this weekend.
