Contender Series 2024 thread

[The_Renaissance]

Torrez Finney is one of my top prospects outside of the UFC. Yeah he's short for the division, but he's an absolute beast.

I was pretty surprised that he didn't get a contract after his performance last season, and I'm really looking forward to next Tuesday.

Same. I like him. Think he finishes him and gets the contract he weirdly didn't get last season.

If Cunha does use his wrestling, last fight I watched he was throwing looping overhands trying for a KO. The other guy didn't go down and I do not remember his shots to be noteworthy later on in the fight.

I don't think hie wrestling is good enough to beat Kuniev either.

 

[Bubzeh]

Needless to say, if Finney loses, it’ll be a dark day on the Sherdog forum.

 

[Deleted member 513083]

Needless to say, if Finney loses, it’ll be a dark day on the Sherdog forum.

Torrez "Meng" Finney

 

[Ares Black]

Needless to say, if Finney loses, it’ll be a dark day on the Sherdog forum.

Torrez Finney is currently about a 5 to 1 favourite and on Tapology 94% of predictors have picked him.

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Cam Rowston vs. Torrez Finney, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Rowston vs. Finney at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Rowston vs. Finney fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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[Ares Black]

Week 6 (September 17)

Benjamin Bennett vs Joey Hart (WW)

Benjamin Bennett vs. Joey Hart, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Bennett vs. Hart at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Bennett vs. Hart fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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Don't really know much about either guy. Both of them are 6-1 professionally, but Bennett has an extensive amateur career, going 17-4 with a win over Axel Sola. I've only seen him fight once, a KO loss to Trey Waters. I know precisely nothing about Hart.

 

[Deleted member 513083]

Week 6 (September 17)

Benjamin Bennett vs Joey Hart (WW)

Benjamin Bennett vs. Joey Hart, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Bennett vs. Hart at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Bennett vs. Hart fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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Don't really know much about either guy. Both of them are 6-1 professionally, but Bennett has an extensive amateur career, going 17-4 with a win over Axel Sola. I've only seen him fight once, a KO loss to Trey Waters. I know precisely nothing about Hart.

The other fight has some Japanese MW I have never heard about at all and I sometimes browse through tapology on the japanese circuit when I am bored.

How do they find some of these guys lol

 

[The_Renaissance]

The other fight has some Japanese MW I have never heard about at all and I sometimes browse through tapology on the japanese circuit when I am bored.

How do they find some of these guys lol

Yeah that one looks super low level

 

[Deleted member 513083]

Yeah that one looks super low level

He looks like someone who would get finished by Henrique Shiquemoto on the prelims of a Rizin Event.

 

[StretchPlum]

Finney won, but a contract seems iffy. I guess that's the end of Imperato as far as any "comeback".

 

[Marko Atanasovik]

Week 3 - Focus on Jose Ochoa and Marco Tulio.

 

[CorninginChristianburg]

I was rooting for Finney because he's a wrestler. But I not only agree with Dana, I agree with the way Dana phrased it, even if it sounded harsh, it's a message wrestlers need to hear.

He should have gotten multiple fights in, in the last year. He only got one, and it was not a fight where his mettle was really going to get tested. I think so many wrestlers overvalue the "O", the "undefeated" title, even if the win column has only 5 fights and 4 were cans.

Maybe you lose a fight, very embarrassing. They were in the MW division, look at the MW king who just fought last week. Dricus Du Plessis took hard fights before he entered the UFC. He even lost two of them. But that didn't derail is career, it gave him the necessary experience to win once he got into the UFC, and become a UFC champ. Finney needs more fights like the tough fight he had against Rowston tonight, because that's where the development comes from.

 

[The_Renaissance]

I can see Finney getting signed as a short notice replacement for an injury soon.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Week 3 - Focus on Jose Ochoa and Marco Tulio.

Ochoa got signed directly, Nick Piccinini is fighting now.

 

[Deleted member 513083]

Torrez "Meng" Finney

Sorry guys, I jinxed it.

 

[Ares Black]

Some updates:

Week 3 (next week)

Jose Ochoa is out, replaced by Nick Piccininni

Jack Duffy vs Nick Piccininni (FLW)

Jack Duffy vs. Nick Piccininni, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Duffy vs. Piccininni at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Duffy vs. Piccininni fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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Week 5 (September 10)

Raffael Cerqueira is out, replaced by Philip Latu

Francesco Mazzeo vs Philip Latu (LHW)

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Week 6 (September 17)

Talisson Teixera vs Arthur Lopes (HW)

Tallison Teixeira vs. Arthur Lopes, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Teixeira vs. Lopes at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Teixeira vs. Lopes fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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Really excited for Teixeira. He's 6'8, 255, 6-0 with 6 first round finishes, and still only 24.

Week 7 (September 24)

Rose Conceicao vs Alexia Thainara (SW)

Rose Conceição vs. Alexia Thainara, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Conceição vs. Thainara at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Conceição vs. Thainara fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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[Deleted member 513083]

Some updates:

Week 3 (next week)

Jose Ochoa is out, replaced by Nick Piccininni

Jack Duffy vs Nick Piccininni (FLW)

Jack Duffy vs. Nick Piccininni, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Duffy vs. Piccininni at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Duffy vs. Piccininni fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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Week 5 (September 10)

Raffael Cerqueira is out, replaced by Philip Latu

Francesco Mazzeo vs Philip Latu (LHW)

Francesco Mazzeo vs. Phillip Latu, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Mazzeo vs. Latu at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Mazzeo vs. Latu fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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Week 6 (September 17)

Talisson Teixera vs Arthur Lopes (HW)

Tallison Teixeira vs. Arthur Lopes, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Teixeira vs. Lopes at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Teixeira vs. Lopes fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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Really excited for Teixeira. He's 6'8, 255, 6-0 with 6 first round finishes, and still only 24.

Week 7 (September 24)

Rose Conceicao vs Alexia Thainara (SW)

Rose Conceição vs. Alexia Thainara, Contender Series 2024 | MMA Bout | Tapology

Conceição vs. Thainara at Contender Series 2024 on Tapology. View Conceição vs. Thainara fight video, highlights, news, Twitter updates, and fight results.

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They found some obscure HW from Brazil to get this kid inside the UFC quick, the guy has a loss against a bantamweight years ago. I don't mind it I found Teixeira's fights that I have seen to be very exciting.

I also saw Latu's name around browsing Tapology before, He seems to be mainly a striker and his opponent seems to be the same. I expect this fight to be pretty exciting.

 

[Ares Black]

They found some obscure HW from Brazil to get this kid inside the UFC quick, the guy has a loss against a bantamweight years ago. I don't mind it I found Teixeira's fights that I have seen to be very exciting.

I also saw Latu's name around browsing Tapology before, He seems to be mainly a striker and his opponent seems to be the same. I expect this fight to be pretty exciting.

Yeah Lopes' record is weird and bad. He really has no business being on the Contender Series.

Besides the loss to a BW(!?!), be also has no good wins. His last two opponents were 3-4 and 7-6, and two of his wins are over guys that aren't even on Tapology.

 

[Deleted member 513083]

Yeah Lopes' record is weird and bad. He really has no business being on the Contender Series.

Besides the loss to a BW(!?!), be also has no good wins. His last two opponents were 3-4 and 7-6, and two of his wins are over guys that aren't even on Tapology.

They are not playing around getting Teixeira in the UFC. I am also puzzled how he lost to a bantamweight? Maybe he used to be super scrawny and just bulked up. I swear to god if this guy manages to land the lucky punch of the century I will not recover from it.

Other people got some tough tasks ahead of them, like Steele vs Ottoni is a matchup that could already be on a prelim. Mario Pinto for example got a seemingly way tougher opponent. They also gave Vakhitov the guy who I remember for headkick KOing some cocky guy on the French PFL card.

I wonder if they match exciting prospect, they consider must haves, with easier fights and the other guys get matched evenly so a strong fighter comes out guaranteed.

 

[Ares Black]

They are not playing around getting Teixeira in the UFC. I am also puzzled how he lost to a bantamweight? Maybe he used to be super scrawny and just bulked up.

It was probably openweight and the guy was like 160 and he was 220 or something.

Regional MMA is sometimes very loose with weight classes.

 

[The_Renaissance]

Rafael Cerquiera has been signed outright, and will be fighting Ibo Aslan in in Abu Dhabi.

Mansur Abdul-Malik has already been booked - he's fighting Dusko Todorovic.