Episode
The Ultimate Fighter: Respect Is Earned
Overview
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Details
- Series
- The Ultimate Fighter
- Season
- Season 33
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2025-07-15
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Respect Is Earned is Episode 8 in Team Cormier vs Team Sonnen of The Ultimate Fighter. It aired on 2025-07-15. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 7: Make Them Remember Me
Former UFC middleweight champion and TUF Smashes winner Robert Whittaker visits Team Sonnen’s training session.
Episode 9: Comfortable With The Uncomfortable
Cormier and Sonnen face off in a pickleball Coaches Challenge. TUF 18 winner and former UFC bantamweight champion Julianna Pena pays a visit to Team Sonnen training. Then, Alibi Idiris and Roybert Echeverria go to war.
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Episode 6: A Lesson in Brutality
TUF alumni and former UFC champions Rose Namajunas and Raquel Pennington help Team Cormier during training.
Episode 10: Common Goals Can't Be Shared
Chael Sonnen and Colby Covington take Team Sonnen to se Criss Angel's Iconic show in LAs Vegas, Then, Cormier teammates face off in the first Welterweight semifinal, as Rodrigo Sezinando takes on Jeff Creighton with a spot in the live finale at stake.
Episode 5: Frenemies
Former TUF season 24 competitor and two-time UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno helps Team Cormier during training.
Episode 11: Bring Your Best
Episode 4: Blood and Business
The second welterweight quarterfinal fight pits Team Cormier’s, Jeff Creighton of the U.S. against Irish Romanian powerhouse Andreeas Binder of Team Sonnen.
Episode 12: Tested by the Fire
Episode 3: Give Them A Show
TUF’s first prospect from India, Team Sonnen’s Arshiyan Memon, faces Team Cormier’s heavy-handed Mexican Imanol Rodriguez in a flyweight quarterfinal fight.
Episode 2: Nothing To Lose
In the season’s debut welterweight fight, Brazilian striker Richard Martins of Team Sonnen faces Ukrainian heavy hitter Daniil Donchenko of Team Cormier.
Episode 1: Into The Pressure Cooker
As the 20th anniversary season begins, legendary coaches Daniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen pick their teams and prepare for the first fight of the season.