Contender Series

Dana White’s Contender Series began back in 2017. Since then, the Contender Series has produced some big-name upcoming stars like Dan Ige, Sean O’Malley, Geoff Neal, Maycee Barber, and Edmen Shahbazyan. In short, it has been a huge success. A...

Chris Duncan didn't have an ideal experience with Contender Series in 2021. His original bout with Manuel Gaxhja was canceled with his opponent missed weight. He then had to take a new date with a new opponent and less...

Week one of Dana White's Contender Series Season 6 saw just one contract awarded, to Joseph Pyfer. At the end of the episode, a clearly annoyed Dana White proclaimed that he did no advance research into the fighters on...

The highly anticipated return of Dana White's Contender Series arrived on Tuesday, with fighters as always vying for a UFC contract in the ultimate MMA proving ground. What should have been a five-fight card, however, was truncated thanks to one...

Dana White’s Contender Series began back in 2017. Since then, the Contender Series has produced some big-name upcoming stars like Dan Ige, Sean O’Malley, Geoff Neal, Maycee Barber, and Edmen Shahbazyan. In short, it has been a huge success. A...

There are misses, and then there are misses — and Willian Souza missed weight by a country mile ahead of his Dana White's Contender Series fight with Farid Basharat. More accurately, Brazil's Souza missed the mark for his bantamweight fight...

It's that time of year again. For fight fans, especially fans of up-and-coming prospects trying to crack the UFC roster, it's basically Christmas. That's thanks to Dana White's Contender Series returning this Tuesday. The first episode of Contender Series season...

Organizations like LFA have largely become a feeder directly into the UFC or Dana White's Contender Series. It's become almost expected that champions of that and similar organizations will get the call. However, many champions have to wait on...

This year's edition of Dana White's Contender Series, which will take place over the summer, continues to grow. The latest addition sees women's bantamweights face off, in a fight featuring Invicta FC vet Hailey Cowan against Claudia Leite. Multiple sources...

With this year's Dana White's Contender Series in the line of sight, fights are starting to be booked. Among them, flyweight action will see Charles Johnson face Shannon Ross in a fight that will be happening on August 2,...