{"id":193710,"date":"2025-10-06T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193710\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:31:07","slug":"dana-whites-contender-series-85-faceoff-highlights-video-photo-gallery-from-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193710\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series 85 faceoff highlights video, photo gallery from Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 The pre-fight activities are in the books for Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series 85 following Monday&#8217;s official weigh-ins and faceoffs.<\/p>\n<p>For the\u00a0ninth and penultimate event of the season, 10 fighters will vie for UFC contracts in their fights, including lightweights Lucas Caldas (6-1) and Magomed Zaynukov (7-0), who headline the show.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the official weigh-ins, the fighters came face to face for staredowns. Check out the highlights in the video above and a photo gallery from the weigh-ins and faceoffs below.<\/p>\n<p>Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series 85 takes place Tuesday and streams on ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/10\/06\/dana-white-contender-series-85-dwcs-ufc-weigh-in-faceoff-highlights-video-photo-gallery-las-vegas\/86548692007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dana White&#039;s Contender Series 85 faceoffs video, photo gallery | UFC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series 85 faceoffs video, photo gallery | UFC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 The pre-fight activities are in the books for Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series 85 following Monday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,59301,958,786,122266,122265,785,85,20878],"class_list":["post-193710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-contender-series","tag-dana-white","tag-fighting","tag-lucas-caldas","tag-magomed-zaynukov","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-weigh-ins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193710","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=193710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}