{"id":62948,"date":"2025-08-12T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62948\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:27:09","slug":"dana-whites-contender-series-season-9-schedule-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62948\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White’s Contender Series: Season 9 schedule, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best weekly fight night in all of sports is back. Season 9 of “Dana White’s Contender Series”<\/a> premieres Tuesday with the first of 10 straight weeks of prospective fighters duking it out for a UFC contract. Week 1 features a main event between middleweights Ilian Bouafia<\/a> (6-0-0) and Neemias Santana<\/a> (7-2-1).<\/p>\n

Every season of “Dana White’s Contender Series” has produced more highlights, more memorable fights and more contracts than the last. Season 9 figures to be no different. Catch all the action from the UFC APEX in Las Vegas on ESPN+<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

“Dana White’s Contender Series”: Season 9, Week 1 fight card<\/p>\n

ESPN+, 7 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Middleweight: Ilian Bouafia vs. Neemias Santana<\/p>\n

Welterweight: Ty Miller<\/a> vs. Jimmy Drago<\/a><\/p>\n

Middleweight: Baysangur Susurkaev<\/a> vs. Murtaza Talha<\/a><\/p>\n

Featherweight: George Mangos<\/a> vs. Radley da Silva<\/a><\/p>\n

Middleweight: Christopher Ewert<\/a> vs. Yuri Panferov<\/a><\/p>\n

“Dana White’s Contender Series” programming schedule<\/p>\n

*All times Eastern<\/p>\n

Week 1: Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Week 2: Tuesday, Aug. 19 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Week 3: Tuesday, Aug. 26 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Week 4: Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Week 5: Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Week 6: Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Week 7: Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Week 8: Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Week 9: Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Week 10: Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

How to watch the fights<\/p>\n

Watch the fights on ESPN+<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fans can catch all the action in the UFC streaming hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FightCenter<\/a> also offers live updates for every UFC card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best weekly fight night in all of sports is back. Season 9 of “Dana White’s Contender Series”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-62948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62948","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=62948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}