{"id":81346,"date":"2025-08-20T02:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81346\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T02:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:16:07","slug":"dwcs-78-video-cameron-rowston-makes-most-of-second-chance-tkos-brandon-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81346\/","title":{"rendered":"DWCS 78 video: Cameron Rowston makes most of second chance, TKOs Brandon Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Rowston has highly touted by City Kickboxing teammates Israel Adesanya and Dan Hooker prior to <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/dana-whites-contender-series-78-230044476.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dana White&#039;s Contender Series 78;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series 78<\/a>, and he delivered an effort that will likely lead to a UFC contract.<\/p>\n<p>Rowston (12-3) put on a striking clinic against Brandon Holmes (5-1) in their middleweight bout on Tuesday at the UFC Apex, landing brutal punches and elbows until his opponent folded on the canvas at the 2:58 mark of Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Check out the replay of the finish below (via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ufc\/status\/1957979068529615349\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>After falling short in his contract opportunity in Season 8 of DWCS, Rowston came back for a second chance and maximized the platform to impress the UFC brass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been knocking on the door,&#8221; Rowston said in his post-fight interview with Heidi Androl. &#8220;I knew every night of this training camp I would get a finish and cement my contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/19\/dwcs-78-video-cam-rowston-knockout-brandon-holmes-second-chance\/85734189007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:DWCS 78 video: Cameron Rowston TKOs Brandon Holmes in second chance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">DWCS 78 video: Cameron Rowston TKOs Brandon Holmes in second chance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Rowston has highly touted by City Kickboxing teammates Israel Adesanya and Dan Hooker prior to Dana White&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,61655,49675,958,786,54075,785,85,787,4908],"class_list":["post-81346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brandon-holmes","tag-dan-hooker","tag-dana-white","tag-fighting","tag-israel-adesanya","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-apex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81346","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=81346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}