Contender Series Season 7 thread

[Hellowhosthat]

8th August

Middleweight - Lucas Fernando (8-1) Vs Cesar Almeida (3-0)
Lightweight - Tom Nolan (5-0) Vs Bogdan Grad (11-1)
Heavyweight - Caio Machado (7-1-1) Vs Kevin Szaflarski (11-1)
Bantamweight - Payton Talbot (5-0) Vs Junior Cortez (7-2)
Flyweight - Rickson Zenidim (14-1) Vs Kevin Borjas (8-1)

15th August

Featherweight - Hyder Amil (7-0) Vs Emrah Sonmez (14-4)
Strawweight - Eduarda Moura (8-0) Vs Janaina Silva (5-0)
Bantamweight - Cameron Smotherman (8-3) Vs Charalampos Grigoriou (7-3)
Lightweight - George Hardwick (12-1) Vs Abdul Kareem El-Selwady (14-3

22nd August

Strawweight - Josefine Knutsson (5-0) Vs Isis Verbeek (4-1)
Middleweight - Eli Aronov (6-0) Vs Zachary Reese (5-0)
Featherweight - Robbie Ring (6-0) Vs Luis Pajuelo (7-1)
Welterweight - Kaik Brito (16-4) Vs Oban Elliott (8-2)
Flyweight - Felipe Dos Santos (7-0) Vs Luciano Pereira (13-1)

29th August

Welterweight - Carlos Prates (18-6) Vs Mitch Ramirez (7-0)
Lightweight - Dylan Salvador (5-1) Vs Bolaji Oki (7-1)
Middleweight - Marco Tulio Silva (9-1) Vs Yousri Belgaroui (5-2)

5th September

Light Heavyweight - Bruno Lopes (11-0) Vs Brendson Ribeiro (14-5)
Featherweight - Kevin Vallejos (11-0) Vs Jean Silva (10-2)
Bantamweight - Serhiy Sidey (9-1) Vs Ramon Taveras (8-1)
Middleweight - Chad Hanekom (9-2) Vs Cam Rowston (8-2)

12th September

Heavyweight - Eduardo Neves (7-1) Vs Jhonata Diniz (5-0)
Lightweight - James Llontop (13-2) Vs Malik Lewis (6-1)
Featherweight - Steven Nguyen (8-1) Vs AJ Cunningham (8-2)

19th September

Heavyweight - Shamil Gaziev (10-0) Vs Greg Velasco (6-0)
Strawweight - Fabiola Pidroni (5-0) Vs Stephanie Luciano (5-1)

26th September

Flyweight - Sora Rakhmonova (4-1) Vs Ernesta Kareckaite (4-0-1)
Heavyweight - Alexander Soldatkin (14-3) Vs Mario Piazzon (6-0)

3rd October

10th October


Confirmed fighters

Talita Alencar - Strawweight - Brazil - 32 y/o - 4-0
Cesar Almeida - Middleweight - Brazil - 35 y/o - 3-0
Abdul Kareem Al-Selwady - Lightweight - Jordan - 28 y/o - 14-3
Patricia Alujas - Strawweight - Paraguay - 9-2
Hyder Amil - Featherweight - USA - 32 y/o - 7-0
Eli Aronov - Middleweight - Israel - 26 y/o - 6-0
Ibo Aslan - Light Heavyweight - Austria - 11-1
Yousri Belgaroui - Middleweight - Netherlands - 5-2
Kevin Borjas - Flyweight - Peru - 8-1
Kaik Brito - Welterweight - Brazil - 26 y/o - 16-4
Junior Cortez - Bantamweight - USA - 30 y/o - 7-2
Davi Costa - Flyweight - Brazil - 28 y/o - 14-3
AJ Cunningham - Featherweight - USA - 28 y/o - 10-2
Igor Da Silva - Flyweight - Brazil - 20 y/o - 7-0
Jhonata Diniz - Heavyweight - Brazil - 33 y/o - 5-0
Felipe Dos Santos - Flyweight - Brazil - 22 y/o - 7-0
Oban Elliott - Welterweight - Wales - 8-2
Lucas Fernando - Middleweight - Brazil - 24 y/o - Brazil - 9-1
Shamil Gaziev - Heavyweight - Bahrain - 10-0
Bogdan Grad - Lightweight - Austria - 11-1
Charalampos Grigoriou - Cyprus - 31 y/o - 7/3
Rainn Guerrero - Women's Bantamweight - USA - 30 y/o - 5-1
Chad Hanekom - Middleweight - South Africa - 9-2
George Hardwick - Lightweight - England - 26 - 12-1
Ernesta Kareckaite - Flyweight - Lithuania - 4-0-1
Josefine Knutsson - Strawweight - Sweden - 27 y/o - 5-0
Corinne Laframboise - Women's Flyweight - Canada - 8-4
Malik Lewis - Lightweight - USA - 27 y/o - 6-1
James Llontop - Lightweight - Peru - 23 y/o - 13-2
Bruno Lopes - Light Heavyweight - Brazil - 30 y/o - 11-0
Stephanie Luciano - Strawweight - Brazil - 23 y/o - 5-1
Caio Machado - Heavyweight - Brazil - 28 y/o 7-1-1
Eduarda Moura - Strawweight - Brazil - 29 y/o - 8-0
Eduardo Neves - Heavyweight - Brazil - 23 y/o - 7-1
Steven Nguyen - Featherweight - USA - 30 y/o - 8-1
Tom Nolan - Lightweight - Australia - 23 y/o - 5-0
Bolaji Oki - Featherweight - Belgium - 27 y/o - 7-1
Luis Pajuelo - Featherweight - Peru - 28 y/o - 7-1
Luciano Pereira - Flyweight - Uruguay - 22 y/o - 13-1
Mario Piazzon - Heavyweight - Brazil - 25 y/o 6-0
Fabiola Pidroni - Strawweight - Italy - 29 y/o - 5-0
Julia Polastri - Strawweight - Brazil - 25 y/o
Carlos Prates - Welterweight - Brazil - 29 y/o - 16-6
Sora Rakhmonova - Flyweight - Kazakhstan - 25 y/o - 4-1
Mitch Ramirez - Welterweight - USA - 30 y/o - 7-0
Zachary Reese - Middleweight - USA - 29 y/o - 5-0
Paulo Renato Jr - Heavyweight - USA - 29 y/o - 12-2
Brendson Ribeiro - Light Heavyweight - Brazil - 26 y/o - 14-5
Robbie Ring - Featherweight - USA - 22 y/o - 6-0
Cam Rowston - Middleweight - Australia - 8-2
Dylan Salvador - Lightweight - France - 5-1
Serhiy Sidey - Bantamweight - Canada - 26 y/o - 9-1
Janaina Silva - Strawweight - Brazil - 31 y/o - 5-0
Jean Silva - Featherweight - Brazil - 26 y/o - 10-2
Cameron Smotherman - Bantamweight - USA - 8-3
Alexander Soldatkin - Heavyweight - Russia - 30 y/o - 14-3
Emrah Sonmez - Featherweight - Turkey - 14-4
Kevin Szaflarski - Heavyweight - Poland - 28 y/o - 11-1
Payton Talbott - Bantamweight - USA - 24 y/o - 5-0
Ramon Taveras - Bantamweight - USA - 29 y/o - 8-1
Marco Tulio Silva - Middleweight - Brazil - 29 y/o - 9-1
Kevin Vallejos - Featherweight - Argentina - 21 y/o - 11-0
Greg Velasco - Heavyweight - USA - 29 y/o - 6-0
Rickson Zenidim - Flyweight - Brazil - 14-1
Isis Verbeek - Strawweight - Netherlands - 28 y/o - 4-1

Fighters that have had profiles added to UFC.com

Danny Barlow - Welterweight - USA - 27 y/o - 6-0
Timothy Cuamba - Featherweight - USA - 6-1
Vinicius De Oliveira - Bantamweight - Brazil - 27 y/o - 18-3
Jhonata Silva - Flyweight - Brazil - 26 y/o - 8-1
Magomed Gadzhiyasulov - Light Heavyweight - Bahrain 29 y/o - 7-0
Rami Hamed - Welterweight - Lebanon - 32 y/o - 12-3
Kaynan Kruschewsky - Lightweight - Brazil - 32 y/o - 14-1
Victor Hugo Madrigal - Bantamweight - Mexico - 12-3
Raimond Magomedaliev - Welterweight - Russia - 33 y/o - 10-1
Dylan Mantello - Lightweight - USA - 30 y/o - 7-2
Jean Matsumoto - Bantamweight - Brazil - 23 y/o - 13-0
Jose Medina - Light Heavyweight - Bolivia - 32 y/o - 10-2-1
Angel Pacheco - Featherweight - USA - 31 y/o - 7-1
Thomas Petersen - Heavyweight - USA - 28 y/o - 7-1
Lucas Rocha - Flyweight - Brazil - 22 y/o - 16-1
Danny Silva - Featherweight - USA - 26 y/o - 7-1
Murtaza Talha - Light Heavyweight - Bahrain - 6-0
Kasey Tanner - Bantamweight - USA - 31 y/o - 6-0
Matteo Vogel - Featherweight - Canada - 8-2

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Eli Aronov is the first confirmed guy. A Middleweight wrestler who I figured was a can crusher when he randomly popped up to fight very good Mariusz Ksiazkiewicz but then he absolutely fucking smashed and stopped the Iron Pol and looked to have the makings of a very high level dude.


Also added to the UFC roster but not confirmed via twitter people yet are.

Felipe Dos Santos - Lipe Detona is an exciting young flyweight and another Charles Oliveira teammate. He's looked pretty good to me so far, even if I think there are a couple of better flyweight prospects in Brazil.

Isis Verbeek - Dutch stiker who trains with Rozenstruik. She's fought in pretty much every form of combat and keeps busy between MMA, boxing, bareknuckle, bareknuckle MMA etc. She's always improving, I think for her it depends who she gets to fight. @BoxerMaurits you might be interested in a Dutch girl getting a chance.

 

[BoxerMaurits]

Isis Verbeek - Dutch stiker who trains with Rozenstruik. She's fought in pretty much every form of combat and keeps busy between MMA, boxing, bareknuckle, bareknuckle MMA etc. She's always improving, I think for her it depends who she gets to fight. @BoxerMaurits you might be interested in a Dutch girl getting a chance.

Thanks for the tag.
Super cool to see! Isis is always in fun fights. She’s a wild girl, lol.
Hopefully she’ll get matched against another striker, and we’re definitely in for a banger.
What’s your source?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Thanks for the tag.
Super cool to see! Isis is always in fun fights. She’s a wild girl, lol.
Hopefully she’ll get matched against another striker, and we’re definitely in for a banger.
What’s your source?

She's got a new profile on the UFC site. They start adding them around now.

I reckon she might draw Josefine Knuttson who already had a profile having been on Road to UFC last year, but that's just me speculating.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Zachary Reese added, dude's been a bit of a can crusher in Fury but he's smashed them. Lost an ammy fight to Kevin Holland 11 years ago, then seems to have started taking his career seriously in the last couple of years and is now 5-0 as a pro.

 

[You Will Vote For Dreyga]

Isis Verbeek!!! That one is long over due IMO

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Fury confirmed on their broadcast that their Flyweight champ Joshua Van will be on. He's an exciting, ever improving fighter that I really like. I thought he was going to be on Road to UFC but it turns out it's this.

Him against Felipe Dos Santos would be logical given that they're of a similar age and have similar records.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Flyweight Edgar Chairez who lost to Clayton Carpenter last year and had the infamous recent finish where the ref let him armbar an unconcious dude is going to be on also per the Fury broadcast.

They also mentioned Zach Reese, so that one moves from the ones I've snooped on the roster to being official.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Flyweight Edgar Chairez who lost to Clayton Carpenter last year and had the infamous recent finish where the ref let him armbar an unconcious dude is going to be on also per the Fury broadcast.

They also mentioned Zach Reese, so that one moves from the ones I've snooped on the roster to being official.

Sweeney, Chairez and Reese aren't very exciting at all.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Sweeney, Chairez and Reese aren't very exciting at all.

Sweeney is pretty good man, the way he shut Ari Farias down was very impressive. He reminds me of Dodson a bit but doesn't have the one shot KO power.

Reese is probably fighting Aronov, we need guys who aren't quite as good on the show to avoid Dudakova Vs Silva situations where they were the two best fighters in their weight class last season but ended up fighting each other.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Sweeney is pretty good man, the way he shut Ari Farias down was very impressive. He reminds me of Dodson a bit but doesn't have the one shot KO power.

Reese is probably fighting Aronov, we need guys who aren't quite as good on the show to avoid Dudakova Vs Silva situations where they were the two best fighters in their weight class last season but ended up fighting each other.

Yes the ol' Abbasov vs Bonfim isn't the greatest matchmaking. I'm just very hopeful to hear some great names. Kacper Formela, Austin Bashi, Edil Esengulov, Bekzat Almakhan and others all took or are having big fights coming up in hopes to get their slot.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Yes the ol' Abbasov vs Bonfim isn't the greatest matchmaking. I'm just very hopeful to hear some great names. Kacper Formela, Austin Bashi, Edil Esengulov, Bekzat Almakhan and others all took or are having big fights coming up in hopes to get their slot.

Tbf if the matchups I suspect to be booked so far are Knutsson Vs Verbeek, Aronov Vs Reese and Van Vs Dos Santos then there's someone I'd like to see signed in each fight and it the other fighter can beat them then they deserve to be signed anyway.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Tbf if the matchups I suspect to be booked so far are Knutsson Vs Verbeek, Aronov Vs Reese and Van Vs Dos Santos then there's someone I'd like to see signed in each fight and it the other fighter can beat them then they deserve to be signed anyway.

Recent Split decisions vs Dias and Smith along with a loss to Durden doesn't exactly get me hyped, he's on a streak, is the right age and deserves his slot but Sweeney is a whatever for me.

Aronov is a top flight MW prospect, happy with that one. Van at flyweight is a great signing too, which Dos Santos?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Recent Split decisions vs Dias and Smith along with a loss to Durden doesn't exactly get me hyped, he's on a streak, is the right age and deserves his slot but Sweeney is a whatever for me.

Aronov is a top flight MW prospect, happy with that one. Van at flyweight is a great signing too, which Dos Santos?

Lipe Detona

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Btw I don't have confirmation yet but if Sweeney is fighting who I think he's fighting and wins then he deserves it lol.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Lipe Detona

Ooh that's a good'en

Btw I don't have confirmation yet but if Sweeney is fighting who I think he's fighting and wins then he deserves it lol.

I wouldn't mind then signing Jora Ayvazyan or Tariel Abbasov at LW either for contender series.

 

[brackis1]

She's got a new profile on the UFC site. They start adding them around now.

I reckon she might draw Josefine Knuttson who already had a profile having been on Road to UFC last year, but that's just me speculating.

The fact these people get UFC profiles on the site while being on a show that pretends it isn't UFC and definitely doesn't pay like the UFC is such an eyeroll lol.

 

[Feniamin]

Coach of Diyar Nurgozhay said that they are in talks and that Diyar might fight at DWTNCS in July at LHW. https://www.sports.ru/kazakhstan/1115084628-diyar-nurgozhaj-vystupit-na-dwcs.html

 

[TCE]

The fact these people get UFC profiles on the site while being on a show that pretends it isn't UFC and definitely doesn't pay like the UFC is such an eyeroll lol.

You are so against this show - cantender series you call it all of the time - why enter a thread about it to chat shite?

 

[brackis1]

You are so against this show - cantender series you call it all of the time - why enter a thread about it to chat shite?

Uhhh, maybe because I actually enjoy MMA and want to pay attention to young exciting fighters who deserve attention and pay for their skills?
The UFC has created a wage scam and made it the de factor requirement for most guys to get robbed of a full pay UFC contract for scrub minor league money and then the most generic entry contracts.
It sucks and doesn’t reflect any sort of consideration for actual ability.