Contender Series News

Nolan King - April 12, 2019

The female fights continue to pile up for the third season of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series. A strawweight matchup between Invicta FC veteran Kali Robbins (6-2) and Island Fights veteran Hannah Goldy (4-0). The two fighters will square off on the season premiere on June 18. Having competed for Invicta FC, RFA, and KOTC, Robbins has fought a handful of MMA notables including UFC veterans Hannah Cifers and Pearl Gonzalez.

Nolan King - April 9, 2019

The upcoming return of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series continues to take shape, with the addition of a 185-pound matchup to the season premiere on June 18. In a middleweight tilt, Puna Soriano (5-0) will square off with Jamie Pickett (9-3), BJPenn.com has learned. Only five fights into his professional mixed martial arts tenure, Hawaii’s Soriano is already starting to turn heads. All five of the 26-year-old middleweight’s bouts have ended in the first round with Soriano victorious.

Nolan King - April 9, 2019

LFA champion Brendan Allen (11-3) and surging Canadian Aaron Jeffery (6-1) are potentially one fight away from a UFC contract. The two middleweights will be squaring off on the July 16 episode of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series, multiple sources confirm to BJPenn.com Allen, 23, is highly regarded as one of the best unsigned middleweight prospects in North America. Competing against tough competition for the entirety of his stint in MMA, has suffered three career losses. All three men that beat Allen went on to make it to the UFC — Anthony Hernandez, Eryk Anders, and Trevin Giles.

Nolan King - April 9, 2019

Thirty-one-year-old welterweight Derrick Krantz has been competing in mixed martial arts longer than most. Last Friday night, Dana White validated all the blood, sweat, and tears Krantz has poured into the sport. After a short tenure as an amateur competitor, Krantz made the jump to the professional ranks in 2008. Battling the who’s who of welterweights on the Texas regional scene.

Nolan King - April 3, 2019

Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series season three is finally starting to take shape. A bout between heavyweights Ricardo Prasel (10-1) and Don’Tale Mayes (6-2) is in the works for the July 16 installation of the UFC series, BJPENN.com has learned.

Drake Riggs - August 7, 2018

Season two of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series has come and gone and to say that it delivered would be an understatement. In the eight weeks of action that we got this Summer, we saw 24 contracts handed out with 33 of the 40 fights ending via finish. There wasn’t a single week that didn’t have at least two fights resulting in a finish. There was actually only one where that was the case, actually.

Drake Riggs - July 24, 2018

This week’s episode of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series would feature one of the more spotlighted fighters in the show’s history. Kicking the night off were the featherweights. And they were two of the youngest fighters to compete in Contender Series history as Chase Hooper (18) fought Caanan Kawaihae (20).

Drake Riggs - June 26, 2018

Another week of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series and yet another thrilling night of finishes. Of the 15 fights so far in season 3, 14 have ended by finish. I would say that the theme for this week was finishing…but that appears to be the theme of the whole season.