Check out the first TUF 12 video trailer:

Fourteen of these fighters will make it into the TUF house. Season 12 of “The Ultimate Fighter” has an interesting collection of lightweights. Video for the complete cast of 28 lightweight fighters after the jump.

The new season premieres Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 10:00pm ET/PT.

Here is the first teaser video for The Ultimate Fighter 11:

In case you were asleep all last week, Chuck Liddell will be coaching the 11th season of The Ultimate Fighter alongside Tito Ortiz. But that doesn’t mean Dana White is happy about it.White would prefer if Liddell retired after his fight against Ortiz once the show is over.

“It’s not what I wanted. But like I said, I’m not his father. I’m not his dad. We’ll see what happens after the Tito fight. I would like to see him hang it up after the Tito fight… That’s my plan: He does one fight and then he retires – win, lose or draw.”

Liddell was a coach on the 1st season of The Ultimate Fighter, training light heavyweight Forrest Griffin, who went on to become the UFC light heavyweight champion. Liddell also coached Kenny Florian, Josh Koscheck and Diego Sanchez.

Jon Jones talked to Sports Illustrated and said that he wants the loss taken off his record from his fight against Matt Hamill at the Ultimate Fighter 10 season finale.

“A big part of it is that Mazzagatti just didn’t handle things right. You know, he’s standing over Matt Hamill, who can’t see at the time because he has blood in his eyes, and obviously he can’t hear, and Mazzagatti is standing there asking him if he’s okay. Then he stops the fight.”

Later in the interview, Jones mentions that he never knew Mazzagatti’s reputation as a ref:

“I didn’t really know anything about him until I went and read some of the blogs and found out that no one thinks he’s a good ref. The UFC seems to hate this guy. No one thinks he’s good at what he does. I guess this isn’t the first time something has happened with him.”

Hamill has mentioned on his website that he agrees that the fight should not have ended in a disqualification and that the loss should be removed from Jones’s record, bringing it back to an undefeated one.

UFC light heavyweight Matt Hamill talks about his his disqualification win over Jon Jones at Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 10 Finale.

“I’d like to take a minute and thank everyone for their unbelievable support. The outpouring of concern has been overwhelming. I know it looked bad Saturday night but it looked a lot worse than it was. Aside from a few stitches in my nose and a sore shoulder I feel fine. I give all the credit to Jon Jones. He caught me by surprise with an awesome trip and I dislocated my shoulder when we hit the ground. I knew it was probably over at that point but I will die before I tap so I did the best I could under the circumstances. We train to wind up in bad positions and it paid off because I felt I was still able to defend even though I knew I couldn’t get up. Jon’s young and full of so much talent. Aside from making a mistake he did his job and he did it well. He definitely didn’t lose this fight and I definitely didn’t win, but I guess the rules are there for a reason. It is what it is. I went into this fight feeling like my record was actually 9-1 so with this so called win I will now consider my record 9-2… LOL I wish Jon all the best and I’d like to thank him for the professional and respectful way he has handled himself. I felt bad for him since a simple mistake caused him to loose a win bonus but as I know first hand, Dana, Lorenzo and the rest of the UFC take great care of their fighters. I’m sure Jon received a win bonus and more. As for me, you know I’ll be back. Fighting in the UFC is my job and I’ll be back to work very soon. I feel my performance before I was taken down was going well. I was able to get to him, land some solid strikes and get my hands on him. More importantly I was able to avoid all of his crazy strikes which is something we worked very hard on. I was in the best shape ever for this fight and I was completely prepared. It’s always a disappointment when things don’t go your way but I will take all the positives that I can from this. I’m just waiting on MRI results so we can rule out any further damage and I plan to be back in the gym right after the holidays. Thank you to my team, family, friends and amazing fans.”

source: MattHamill.com

Jon Jones admits he might not know the rules as well as he should have, leading him to get disqualified during his fight against Mark Hamill.

Roy Nelson: $16,000 ($8,000 win) def. Brendan Schaub: $8,000

Matt Hamill: $46,000 ($23,000 win) def. Jon Jones: $20,000
Kimbo Slice: $25,000 (no win) def. Houston Alexander: $13,000
Frankie Edgar: $46,000 ($23,000 win) def. Matt Veach: $5,000
Matt Mitrione: $16,000 ($8,000 win) def. Marcus Jones: $8,000

James McSweeney: $16,000 ($8,000 win) def. Darrill Schoonover: $8,000
Jonathan Madsen: $16,000 ($8,000 win) def. Justin Wren: $8,000
Brian Stann: $30,000 ($15,000 win) def. Rodney Wallace: $6,000
John Howard: $14,000 ($7,000 win) def. Dennis Hallman: $15,000
Mark Bocek: $30,000 ($15,000 win) def. Joe Brammer: $5,000

If you’ve missed it, view TUF 10 Finale Results and TUF 10 Finale Bonuses – including, Fight, Submittion, KO of he Night.

Dana White announced at The Ultimate Fighter 10: The Heavyweights finale that rivals and former champions Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz will be the coaches for The Ultimate Fighter 11. TUF 11 will feature – 185 lbs – Middleweight fighters. At the end of the show the two men will face each other for the third time in their careers. The fight will also mark the end of Chuck Liddell’s retirement.

Liddell and Ortiz have fought twice already, with Liddell taking both fights by stoppage. The series will be filmed in Vegas in early 2010 to be aired in late March onwards.

Each fighter received $25,000 extra for their performances in addition to their respective base salaries.

Fight of the Night — Frankie Edgar vs. Matt Veach
Knockout of the Night — Roy Nelson
Submission of the Night — Mark Bocek

We will pass along fighter base salaries as soon as they we learn more.

If you’ve missed it, view complete The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale Results.