UFC’s reality TV series “The Ultimate Fighter” will officially make its return on June 1st with Season 28, as announced during the promotion’s “Fight Night” broadcast on Saturday. The show will include a cast of eight bantamweight and middleweight fighters.
The bantamweight fighters announced for the season were: Daniel Argueta, Brady Hiestand, Dustin Lampros, Vince Murdock, Mitch Raposo, Joshua Rettinghouse, Liudvik Sholinian and Ricky Turcios.
The middleweights revealed for the show were: Aaron Phillips, Andre Petroski, Bryan Battle, Ryder Newman, Tesean Gore, Miles Hunsinger, Kemran Lachinov and Gilbert Urbina.
UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski and soon-to-be title challenger Brian Ortega will be the coaches for the season, as previously reported.
A full breakdown of the lineup will be coming to Knockdown News later this week.