after what may have been the biggest season in the history of The Ultimate Fighter as Connor McGregor mma's biggest star made his second run as a coach the show is back for season 32 in June TUF was instrumental in the UFC's explosion of popularity in the early 2000s shining a spotlight on Fighters such as Randy Couture Chuck Liddell Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock who coached MMA hopefuls in a season long compet comption in which the participants shared a house for several weeks over the course of 31 Seasons all of which can be seen on ESPN plus the show has featured several UFC champions forest Griffin Rashad Evans Michael Bisping Camero Usman Robert Whitaker TJ Dillashaw and Rose namaj junz as well as stars Nate Diaz Tony Ferguson and Diego Sanchez each season tension tends to rise between the coaches building up to a big fight of their own fans get to see it all play out behind the scenes the 32nd season of The Ultimate Fighter features a coaching matchup between women's flyweight Champion Alexa Grasso and former champ Valentina shevchenko the two are expected to square off in a Trilogy about for Grasso's title after the conclusion of the season in the first bout Grasso beat shevchenko by submission to claim the title the two fought to a split draw in the second fight this season's TUF competition which will begin airing June 4th on ESPN and ESPN plus is at featherweight and middleweight results of this season can be found at the bottom of the story