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A pair of Contender Series veterans will face off at the UFC's November 5, 2022 Fight Night event. Jake Hadley (8-1) and Carlos Candelario (8-2) are expected to meet on the card, which marks the sophomore outing in the UFC...

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....

UFC 278 was a thrilling event full of finishes, wars, and unexpected drama. Closing out the card, most notably, was a Hail-Mary head kick from Leon Edwards that finished dominant champion Kamaru Usman in their rematch for the welterweight...

Leon Edwards won UFC welterweight gold at UFC 278 with a fifth-round knockout over Kamaru Usman. This, for once without hyperbole, shocked the world as Usman was winning three rounds to one heading into the fifth frame. Paulo Costa...

The first couple seasons of Dana White's Contender Series were largely domestic. The vast majority of the fighters came from the US with a heavy reliance on fighters in and around the Vegas area. Lucky for those like Amiran...

Salt Lake City, UT — UFC lightweight and former interim champ Justin Gaethje has been on the sidelines for a bit following his loss to Charles Oliveira earlier this year. That's not entirely due to the loss. Instead, Gaethje took...

The midway mark of Dana White's Contender Series Season 6 arrives this week, and how time has flown by. From the instantly quotable warning from Dana White in week one, urging fighters to "be Joe Pyfer," to a couple of...

Salt Lake City, UT - UFC lightweight Jared Gordon came into UFC 278 wanting to get back into the winning column and he did so by defeating Leonardo Santos on Saturday night. Gordon (19-5) overcame a height and reach disadvantage...

Salt Lake City, UT — Bantamweight Merab Dvalishvili has led the charge for Georgian MMA, and as a Georgian, he's very familiar with Russian aggression. In 2008, Russia invaded his homeland, and that prompted Dvalishvili to speak out about...

Believe it or not, we're already at the halfway point of Dana White's Contender Series Season 6. DWCS Week 5 arrives on Tuesday, and brings with it action in the women's strawweight, heavyweight, flyweight, bantamweight, and welterweight divisions. On last...