DW's Tuesday Night Contender Series 2018 Week 2: LIVE on Fight Pass 8PM ET/5PM PT PBP Discussion

[JayPettryMMA]

LINK to the broadcast on Fight Pass

If you do not have Fight Pass and only want to watch the Contender Series, a summer Season Pass is currently being sold by the UFC for a discounted $10.99 here, it gives you ~10 weeks of FP.

For those of you new to the series, every Tuesday from June 12th until August 7th, with July 3rd off, top prospects and former UFC fighters will compete on a five-fight card with the opportunity to win a UFC contract. Some events, only one winner gets a contract, and others, multiple fighters are awarded that elusive contract.



Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series 2018, Week 2!

FW: Matt Sayles (6-1) vs Yazan Hajeh (6-0)
MW: Anthony Hernandez (6-0) vs Jordan Wright (9-0)
FW: Giga Chikadze (5-1) vs Austin Springer (10-3)
LHW: Emiliano Sordi (16-6) vs Ryan Spann (13-5)
WW: Tyler Hill (8-1) vs Dwight Grant (7-1)

Weigh-in Results coming soon
ALL fighters successfully made weight



Odds as of 2:15 PM ET 6/19


Previous Contract Winners:

2017 Season - Breakdown and Summary Here
Week 1: FW Kurt Holobaugh (R1 KO) and BW Boston Salmon (Unanimous Decision)
Week 2: BW Sean O'Malley (R1 KO)
Week 3: LHW Karl Roberson (R1 KO) and MW Geoffrey Neal (R1 TKO)
Week 4: MW Julian Marquez (R2 KO) and FW Brandon Davis (Unanimous Decision)
Week 5: LHW Mike Rodriguez (R1 KO) and FLW Alex Perez (R1 Tech Sub - Anaconda Choke)
Week 6: MW Charles Byrd (R2 Sub - Rear Naked Choke) and FW Grant Dawson (R2 Sub - Rear Naked Choke)
Week 7: BW Benito Lopez (Split Decision) and FLW Joby Sanchez (R2 TKO)
Week 8: LW Matt Frevola (R2 Sub - Arm-Triangle Choke), WBW Lauren Mueller (Unanimous Decision), HW Allen Crowder (R3 TKO) - as well as MW Bevon Lewis (R2 TKO) signed to Developmental League

2018 Season
Week 1: LHW Alonzo Menifield (R1 TKO) - as well as HW Greg Hardy (R1 TKO) signed to Developmental League

Contracts issued to fighters will start at $10k to show and $10k to win, for around 3-4 fights. Other winners may be called to the UFC for short notice replacements or brought back for future CS events.

Commentary: Dan Hellie, Michael Bisping
The commentary will alternate this season between Play-by-Play announcers Brendan Fitzgerald and Dan Hellie, and Color Commentators Michael Bisping and Paul Felder

There will be NO Snoopcast this season.

Fights will start in approximately 5 hours and 45 minutes from this first posting.

 

[Goodyroom]

what happened to nick newell?

 

[WingsLax9042]

what happened to nick newell?

Well that's kinda rude.

 

[JayPettryMMA]

what happened to nick newell?

He's fighting on the July 24th CS card.

And Antonina Shevchenko, Valentina Shevchenko's sister, is slated to fight next week, but her opponent fell through and they are looking for a short-notice replacement.

 

[Thesnake101]

Always pumped to see Spann fight, dude is an athletic specimen and I still think he could do big things if he keeps on improving. Was gutted when he got finished by Roberson, but he's bounced back nicely and should have an easy time with Sordi on the mat.

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

 

[Yari]

Any good ones on this card?

 

[Ken Fresno]

 

[kingghidrah]

Well I wondered about it before, and I was right:

https://mma-today.com/tuesday-night-contenders-wont-usada-testing

So any fighters here you get excited about, like Greg Hardy? Not being tested (not real testing, anyway)

They'd need to be under USADA six months before they join the UFC, and who knows which ones will look the same after that.

Ah well, we can hope that some of the good ones will be clean and make the move seamlessly.

 

[Kryptt]

So In!

 

[JayPettryMMA]

An official DWTNCS program, posted by Marc Raimondi.

 

[BlastoiseDad]

Go Yazan

 

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[dim_]

They'd need to be under USADA six months before they join the UFC, and who knows which ones will look the same after that.

No, they dont need to do six months under usada. Ive no idea where you are getting that from. They are no different to any other new signing to the UFC, 1 month in the testing pool unless they are a short notice replacement.

(and of course USADA wouldnt be testing DWCS, its not the UFC, they dont have any agreement to do testing for them)

And DWCS like most other independant promotions falls under commission jurisdiction in this case Nevada. So Nevada handle the drug testing. You may remember NSAC caught one guy on the contender series last year (IV Use

 

[Naught2Sixty]

 

[TCE]

Just finished work in time.

Got my beer. Let's do this.

 

[Jon's Drug Dealer]

Ready for some sloppy action.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Going with Spann to get the contract tonight... MMA is killing it this week. TNC… PFL....then Fight Night!!!

 

[europe1]

Yazan fought in an orginazation that has a square cage?

Huh. Haven't seen that since Travis Lutter slam-KO'd that guy and damaged his spine in the process back in the 90's.

 

[europe1]

I remember reading about the Beverly Hill Ninjas a long while back. Didn't he have a prospect-watch on Sherdog or something?