[3][4] The UFC and Spike TV held open tryouts on October 26, 2009, in Los Angeles, California.

[3] 300 fighters showed up to the tryouts including UFC veterans Jason Lambert,[5] Nick Thompson and Logan Clark,[2] International Fight League and EliteXC veteran Wayne Cole,[5] as well as season 1 TUF competitor and former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Bobby Southworth.

[6] During The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale, Dana White announced that the coaches would be Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell.

The series boasts a new "wildcard" format in which the two coaches will pick two fighters who lost their preliminary bouts to face each other for the eighth spot in the quarter-finals.

[4] *In the final episode of the season, Tito Ortiz and his coaching staff are replaced by Rich Franklin and his team.

Team Ortiz Finale (also known as The Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale) was a mixed martial arts event that was held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 19, 2010.