The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption

The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption (also known as The Ultimate Fighter 25) is an installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)-produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter.

The series was officially announced by the UFC on January 15, 2017 during the UFC Fight Night: Rodríguez vs. Penn broadcast. The then-current UFC Bantamweight Champion Cody Garbrandt would be coaching opposite former champion T.J. Dillashaw; Both of them being former training partners. As the twenty-fifth season of the American entries of the series, the producers have opted to bring back previous participants from the previous seasons.

Per the UFC's announcement, the cast consists of welterweights that have all competed on The Ultimate Fighter on previous seasons; this includes former participants and winners of the show, as well as one current UFC fighter. The cast was announced on February 15, including former UFC Lightweight Championship challenger and The Ultimate Fighter 2 welterweight winner Joe Stevenson, The Ultimate Fighter: Team Edgar vs. Team Penn middleweight winner Eddie Gordon, as well as then-current UFC fighter James Krause.

This season debuted on April 19, 2017 on Fox Sports 1.

Cast

Coaches

Fighters

• Team Garbrandt
  • Seth Baczynski (TUF 11), Mehdi Baghdad (TUF 22), Eddie Gordon (TUF 19), Hayder Hassan (TUF 21), Julian Lane (TUF 16), Justin Edwards (TUF 13) and Johnny Nunez* (TUF 22)
• Team Dillashaw
  • James Krause (TUF 15), Jesse Taylor (TUF 7), Ramsey Nijem (TUF 13), Dhiego Lima (TUF 19), Joe Stevenson (TUF 2), Tom Gallicchio (TUF 22) and Gilbert Smith (TUF 17).

*Nunez replaced Hector Urbina (TUF 19), after Urbina failed to make weight.