{"id":131649,"date":"2025-09-10T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131649\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:55:09","slug":"dana-white-launching-contender-series-style-boxing-show-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131649\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White launching Contender Series-style boxing show in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, it isn\u2019t getting rebooted sadly, but a new boxing show is coming in 2026 \u2014 and it\u2019s going to seem overly familiar. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White is launching a boxing version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-contender-series-dana-white\/388117\/ufc-contender-series-results-live-coverage-and-full-fight-highlights-season-9-ep-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Contender Series<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBasically, in 26\u2019 I\u2019m going to start my show, and what I\u2019m going to do is basically like the Contender Series,\u201d White said. \u201dThe best will fight the best, undefeated guys will fight undefeated guys, and you will care about the first fight of the night, not just the main event.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSo, I will build stars, put on great fights, and then these guys will graduate and fight for Turki, which they will determine how much they get paid,\u201c White concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yes, that Turki \u2014 Saudi Arabia\u2019s Turki Alalshikh, the man currently reshaping the boxing landscape with an endless oil-funded war chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At least White isn\u2019t dragging boxers through some Ultimate Fighter-style reality slog, like he recently did with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/7\/24444781\/ufc-bjj-launched-everything-we-know-3-title-bouts-tuf-show-cast-cji-pit-jiujitsu-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jiu-jitsu hopefuls<\/a> and (sigh) Power Slap contestants. Instead, he\u2019s sticking with a formula that\u2019s worked like gangbusters for UFC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Expect more answers later this week as the fight world gears up for the historic Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/4\/24423398\/canelo-alvarez-terence-crawford-mega-fight-official-sept-12-in-las-vegas-dazn-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">showdown in Las Vegas<\/a>. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, it isn\u2019t getting rebooted sadly, but a new boxing show is coming in 2026 \u2014 and it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85,14855],"class_list":["post-131649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}