Caution: Your Tuesday nights are about to get highly aggressive! Seven years ago, UFC CEO Dana White expanded the MMA schedule over the summer months to a rare night, Tuesdays, with Dana White’s Contender Series. This week, the show returns for its eighth season.
Just like every season before it, this one will feature 100 MMA prospects setting foot inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, all with a singular goal in mind: Attaining a UFC contract. Every week on Contender Series, five fights will be held between some of the best combatants in the world, with guaranteed deals to the sport’s top promotion being handed out to the night’s most-impressive winners at the program’s end.