{"id":181328,"date":"2025-10-01T00:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181328\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:59:23","slug":"ufc-contender-series-results-live-coverage-and-full-fight-highlights-season-9-ep-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181328\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC \u2018Contender Series\u2019 results, live coverage and full fight highlights | Season 9, Ep. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-contender-series-dana-white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Contender Series<\/a> is back with 10 straight weeks of mixed martial arts (MMA) action, beginning at 8 p.m. ET TONIGHT (Tues., Sept. 23, 2025) on <a href=\"http:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/566982\/9070?sharedid=MMAMania&amp;subId2=[sb0908awD][386502][][][][][][][][][mmamania.com]\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For what it\u2019s worth, six fighters (including a loser) earned UFC contracts last week (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-contender-series-dana-white\/391046\/ufc-contender-series-results-live-coverage-and-full-fight-highlights-season-9-ep-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">results here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In tonight\u2019s main event,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In tonight\u2019s main event, Jungle Fight double champion Vitor Costa (8-1) collides with Aruba\u2019s Damian Pinas (7-1). In the ESPN+ co-main event, Louis Jourdain (8-3) locks horns with Fighting Nerds\u2019 Magno Dias (6-1). In the \u201cFeatured\u201d bout, Welterweight Christopher Alvidrez (6-1) fights Eliezer Kubanza (7-0). Former FCC champion Kurtis Campbell (7-0) takes on Demba Seck (10-2). Finally, team Khabib\u2019s Rashid Vagabov (13-2) hooks \u2019em up with Paulo da Silva (11-1).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Contender Series\u2019 Quick Results:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Contender Series\u2019 Highlights &amp; Results:<\/p>\n<p>185 lbs: Vitor Costa vs. Damian Pinas<\/p>\n<p>135 lbs: Louis Jourdain vs. Magno Dias<\/p>\n<p>170 lbs: Christopher Alvidrez vs. Eliezer Kubanza<\/p>\n<p>145 lbs: Kurtis Campbell defeats Demba Seck via knockout<\/p>\n<p>125 lbs: Rashid Vagabov def. Paulo Henrique via unanimous decision<\/p>\n<p>This embedded content failed to load.<\/p>\n<p>This embedded content failed to load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contender Series is back with 10 straight weeks of mixed martial arts (MMA) action, beginning at 8 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,50873,46671,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-181328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-contender-series","15":"tag-ufc-live-stream","16":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181328","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=181328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}