Complete list: Top 15 most iconic TUF winners ever

Forrest Griffin, 2005

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Before TUF 1 Forrest Griffin had given up his MMA career and worked at a County Sheriff’s Department in Georgia, but he was persuaded by UFC president Dana White to take part in the show.

In the TUF 1 finals he defeated Stephan Bonnar by unanimous decision, in what later was described as the ”most important fight in UFC history”, as it in many ways brought the UFC into the mainstream.