{"id":129262,"date":"2025-09-08T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129262\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:25:08","slug":"dwcs-81-faceoff-highlights-video-photo-gallery-from-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129262\/","title":{"rendered":"DWCS 81 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 81 following Monday&#8217;s official weigh-ins and faceoffs.<\/p>\n<p>For the fifth event of the season, 10 fighters will vie for UFC contracts in their fights, including American heavyweights Anthony Guarascio (3-0) and Steven Asplund (5-1), 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 81 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\/09\/08\/dana-whites-contender-series-81-faceoffs-video-photo-gallery-ufc\/86044142007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dana White&#039;s Contender Series 81 faceoffs video, photo gallery | UFC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series 81 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 81 following Monday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[70901,49,48,70900,10359,641,638,82,70899,18238],"class_list":{"0":"post-129262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-anthony-guarascio","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-contender-series","12":"tag-dana-white","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-steven-asplund","17":"tag-weigh-ins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}