Four UFC contracts awarded on Dana White’s Contender Series

Four UFC contracts awarded on Dana White’s Contender Series

On Tuesday night, the final show of the fourth season of Dana White’s Contender Series, four fighters walk out with UFC contract. The fighters include, flyweight JP Buys, women’s strawweight Gloria de Paula, lightweight Tucker Lutz, and women’s flyweight Victoria Leonardo.

JP Buys (9-2) competed on the card against Jacob Silva (6-4) and secured a first-round submission via a guillotine choke. Buys was on his second fight in the Contender Series after a loss to Jobby Sanchez in 2017 when he had a record of 4-1. 

Noteworthy striking from Gloria de Paula (5-2) against Pauline Macias (4-1), who won by a majority decision. The Brazilian woman who is just 25-years old Brazilian made the world witness her powerful striking whenever she was in the clinch, Macias was also on the receiving end of a lot of clean elbow and knee strikes.

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Sherrard Blackledge (5-1) who was previously undefeated faced his first loss at the hands of Tucker Lutz (11-1) by unanimous decision. This happened to be Lutz’s second challenge of this year’s contender series after a win against Chase Gibson in his first bout in this competition. 

Victoria Leonardo (8-2) had a second-round finish of Chelsea Hackett (3-1-1). Hackett had a solid stand up game but unfortunately succumbed to her opponents impressive ground game.

A place to earn a shot in the UFC : Dana White’s Contender series

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The Contender Series which is held weekly on the UFC Fight Pass witnesses some really great talent and potential prospects for UFC. It was once known as Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series when it started in 2017 but later had a name change.

A previous winner in the Dana White’s contender series, Alex Perez will be one of the first winner to fight in a title fight against UFC Flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo in the main event of UFC 255. 

Perez has only seven fights in the UFC with a 6-1 record and has still managed to secure a title fight against the champ. His previous opponents have been no sort of joke but real challenges whom he had very convincing wins over.

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