UFC restart The Ultimate Fighter after 3-year break, with Ortega and Volkanovski as coaches

TUF 29 will mark the show’s return for the first time in almost three years.

Dana White announced through ESPN that the show will begin filming later this month, and will feature middleweights and bantamweights. The long-running reality show will air on ESPN+, which would be the first since they partnered up with the sports network.

Also announced is that the show will have Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega as coaches. The pair was originally set to fight at UFC 260 last month, but the champion Volkanovski tested positive for COVID-19.

They will fight at a future date after this entire season is filmed, edited, and aired, meaning that rebooking the featherweight title bout will be delayed even longer than people originally expected.