Your go-to guide for Dana White’s Contender Series, Season 6

This year’s edition of Dana White’s Contender Series, which will take place over the summer, continues to grow. Through five seasons of the Contender Series, we’ve seen a total of 145 contracts handed out…

Season 6 will start this July, and will air every Tuesday for ten weeks consecutively.

Confirmed Dates & Fight:

Week 1, July 26th
Bantamweight: William Souza (11-1) vs. Farid Basharat (8-0)
Middleweight: Ozzy Diaz (7-1) vs. Joseph Pyfer (8-2)
Bantamweight: Andres Luna Martinetti (12-0) vs. Alessandro Costa (10-2)
Flyweight: Clayton Carpenter (5-0) vs. Stephen Erceg (8-1)
TBA vs. TBA

Week 2, August 2nd
Heavyweight: Danilo Suzart (9-1) vs. Waldo Cores-Acosta (6-0)
Flyweight: Shannon Ross (13-5) vs. Vinicius Salvador (13-4)
Featherweight: Connor Matthews (5-0) vs. Francis Marshall (5-0)
Welterweight: Billy Goff (7-2) vs. Shimon Smotritsky (8-1)
Lightweight: Charlie Campbell (6-1) vs. Chris Duncan (8-1)

Week 3, August 9th
Lightweight: Rodrigo Lídio (12-2) vs. Mateusz Rębecki (15-1)
Heavyweight: Caio Machado (6-1-1) vs. Paulo Ranato Jr. (10-1)
Strawweight: Karolina Wójcik (8-2) vs. Sandra Lavado (10-2)
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD

Week 4, August 16th
Bantamweight: Hailey Cowan (6-2) vs. Claudia Leite (7-2)
Middleweight: Ivan Valenzuela (8-1) vs. Claudio Ribeira (9-2)
Lightweight: Nazim Sadykhov (6-1) vs. Ahmad Suhail Hassanzada (8-1)
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD

Week 5, August 23rd
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD

Week 6, August 30th
Strawweight: Viktoriya Dudakova (5-0) vs. Maria Silva (8-0)
Middleweight: SD Dumas (6-0) vs. Matej Penaz (6-0)
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD

Week 7, September 6th
Light-Heavyweight: Vitor Petrino (6-0) vs. Rodolfo Bellato (8-1)
Flyweight: Tereza Bleda (5-0) vs. Nayara Maia (6-0-1)
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD

Week 8, September 13th
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD

Week 9, September 20th
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD

Week 10, September 27th
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD
TBD vs. TBD

Fights Confirmed w/ No Date:

Heavyweight: Eduardo Neves (5-0) vs. Michael Parkin (4-0)
Featherweight: Erik Silva (8-1) vs. Anvar Boynazarov (3-0)

Other Fighters Confirmed :

Strawweight: Rayanne Amanda (11-5)
Flyweight: Errison Ferreira (11-1)
Flyweight: Edgar Chairez (8-3)
Flyweight: Arman Ashimov (12-3-1)
Flyweight: Denise Gomes (5-1)
Bantamweight: Dominique Wooding (9-4)
Bantamweight: Jack Cartwright (10-0)
Bantamweight: Jose Johnson (14-7)
Featherweight: Kaleio Romero (6-1)
Featherweight: Freddy Emiliano Linares (7-1)
Light-heavyweight: Oumay Sy (6-0)

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