The UFC reality show, The Ultimate Fighter 20, debuts on Fox Sports 1 Wednesday, September 10 at 10 p.m. and will feature its first all-female cast in the strawweight (115-pound) division.
The sixteen mixed martial artists in the show will fight until there is only one lady left standing, and that person will win the UFC strawweight title.
The cast is broken into two teams of eight. UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis (below left) takes charge of one team, and number one lightweight contender Gilbert Melendez (below right) will guide the other. Pettis will defend his title for the first time against Melendez on December 6 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Here are the ladies who will battle it out become the inaugural UFC strawweight champion.
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All photos courtesy: Stuart Pettican/FOX Sports