“Dana White’s Contender Series” returns this era for Season 7. The display has been the trail for lots of the gifted warring parties at the UFC’s roster these days, together with former UFC brightness heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill, “Suga” Sean O’Malley, who will problem Aljamain Sterling for the lads’s bantamweight belt at UFC 292, and Alex Perez and Taila Santos who fought for titles of their respective sections in 2020 and 2022, respectively.
One of the crucial lead signees from Season 6 have already had luck throughout the Octagon. Joe Pyfer, who famously was once the one fighter to get signed throughout Occasion 1 extreme past, has scored first-round knockouts in opposition to each and every of his two fighters within the UFC. Cameron Saaiman, who’s undefeated, is 3-0 throughout the Octagon. Gabriel Bonfim has notched back-to-back first-round submission wins. And the largest big name of the season, Bo Nickal, who’s well known because the lead chance within the recreation, has completed his two UFC fighters within the first around. A kind of wins got here by means of submission and the alternative got here by means of knockout.
Past extreme season and identify fights, marquee names like Jailton Almeida, Jack Della Maddalena, Kevin Holland, Ryan Spann, Marina Rodriguez and Jalin Turner also are ranked and primed for larger and higher in the future. With the display’s historical past of discovering the after era of the UFC’s lead ability, why would any person assume Season 7 can be any other?
Occasion 1 kicked off the season on Tuesday evening, with each and every of the 5 winners incomes a UFC word. Indistinguishable to earlier seasons, there might be 9 extra weekly battle playing cards at UFC Apex in Las Vegas, airing on Tuesday nights (ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET) and the overall one taking playground Oct. 10. Right here’s a have a look at the effects and the next fights for this season of DWCS.
O’Malley? Nickal? Almeida? Which DWCS alum has the brightest future?
‘Dana White’s Contender Line’ Season 7 Matchups:
Occasion 1 effects:
*Middleweight: Cesar Almeida def. Lucas Fernando through unanimous determination
*Light-weight: Tom Nolan def. Bogdan Grad through KO
*Heavyweight: Caio Machado def. Kevin Szaflarski through unanimous determination
*Bantamweight: Payton Talbott def. Reyes Cortez Jr. through unanimous determination
*Flyweight: Kevin Borjas def. Victor Dias unanimous determination
*Almeida, Nolan, Machado, Talbott, and Borjas had been each and every awarded a UFC word
Occasion 2 effects:
Light-weight: Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady def. George Hardwick through unanimous determination
Sunny heavyweight: Ibo Aslan def. Paulo Renato Junior through KO
Featherweight: Hyder Amil def. Emrah Sonmez through unanimous determination
Girls’s strawweight: Eduarda Moura def. Janaina Silva through submission
Males’s bantamweight: Charalampos Grigoriou def. Cameron Smotherman through TKO
*Al-Selwady, Aslan, Amil, Moura and Grigoriou had been each and every awarded a UFC word
Occasion 3 Matchups, Aug. 22:
Middleweight: Eli Aronov vs. Zach Reese
Welterweight: Kaik Brito vs. Oban Elliot
Girls’s strawweight: Isis Verbeek vs. Josefine Knutsson
Featherweight: Robbie Ring vs. Luis Pajuelo
Males’s flyweight: Luciano Pereira vs. Felipe dos Santos
Occasion 4 Matchups, Aug. 29:
Light-weight: Bolaji Oki vs. Dylan Salvador
Heavyweight: Thomas Petersen vs. Chandler Cole
Featherweight: Timothy Cuamba vs. Mateo Vogel
Welterweight: Carlos Prates vs. Mitch Ramirez
Occasion 5 Matchups, Sep. 5:
TBD
Occasion 6 Matchups, Sep. 12:
TBD
Occasion 7 Matchups, Sep. 19:
TBD
Occasion 8 Matchups, Sep. 26:
TBD
Occasion 9 Matchups, Oct. 3:
TBD
Occasion 10 Matchups, Oct. 10:
TBD
