{"id":78295,"date":"2025-08-18T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78295\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:54:12","slug":"dana-whites-contender-series-78-faceoff-highlights-video-photo-gallery-from-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78295\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series 78 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 78 following Monday&#8217;s official weigh-ins and faceoffs.<\/p>\n<p>For the second event of the season, 10 fighters will vie for UFC contracts in their fights, including featherweights Manuel Exposito (13-2) and Jose Delano (15-3), 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 78 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\/08\/18\/dana-white-contender-series-78-dwcs-ufc-weigh-in-faceoff-highlights-video-photo-gallery-las-vegas\/85713732007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:DWCS 78 faceoff highlights video, photo gallery from Las Vegas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">DWCS 78 faceoff highlights video, photo gallery from Las Vegas<\/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 78 following Monday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,59301,958,786,59302,59303,785,85,20878],"class_list":{"0":"post-78295","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-contender-series","11":"tag-dana-white","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-jose-delano","14":"tag-manuel-exposito","15":"tag-mma","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-weigh-ins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78295","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=78295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}