{"id":800529,"date":"2026-07-14T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800529\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:43:12","slug":"dana-whites-contender-series-season-10-debuts-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800529\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White\u2019s Contender Series season 10 debuts in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dana White\u2019s Contender Series is set to return for season 10 with the show moving to Paramount+ as part of the UFC\u2019s overall broadcast deal with the network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The first episode for The Contender Series debuts on Aug. 11 starting at 8 p.m. ET\/5 p.m. PT with five total fights on the card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There are a total of 10 episodes in season 10 with each installment airing Tuesday nights on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">First debuting back in 2017, the series launched by UFC CEO Dana White features up and coming fighters across all weight classes with the promotion handing out contracts at the end of each episode. The series has produced four future UFC champions \u2014 Sean O\u2019Malley, Jamahal Hill, Jack Della Maddalena and Carlos Ulberg \u2014 along with numerous top contenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Other names to come from The Contender Series over the years include Lone\u2019er Kavanagh, Kevin Vallejos, Jacobe Smith, David Martinez, Ateba Gautier, Quillan Salkilld, Payton Talbott, Jean Silva, Carlos Prates, Josh Hokit, Mauricio Ruffy, Kevin Holland, Caio Borralho, Brendan Allen and Joe Pyfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The UFC hasn\u2019t announced any official matchups for The Contender Series season 10 just yet but the first full card is expected to be finalized in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White\u2019s Contender Series is set to return for season 10 with the show moving to Paramount+ as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787],"class_list":["post-800529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800529","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=800529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}