Tale of the Tape Ilias Bulaid Erick Visconde Record 9-0 17-3 Age 31 29 Height 5’10” 5’7″ Reach 70.5″ 66.5″ Hometown Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil Combined Opp. Record 45-24 142-51-1 Gym SB Gym California Mixed Martial Arts Championships Levels Fight League LFA, Nação Cyborg, Iron Man MMA Shawn
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This week was by far the week I was most excited for this season, and it definitely lived up to expectations. It was sick to see high-level prospects take each other on in a few of the fights, we got a couple cool finishes, and we saw a couple WARS. The only thing weighing this
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Damian Piwowarczyk (11-4) vs Emilio Quissua (8-0) Piwowarczyk uses his striking to force opponents into a shot, then looks to snatch the neck and jump guillotine. His striking is decent, plenty of one twos and hooks in the pocket, and he’s not afraid to press pace. He does have a 5 second knockout loss on
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Tale of the Tape Norbert Novenyi Jr. Theo Haig Record 10-1 7-1 Age 26 30 Height 5’11” 6’2″ Reach 75.0″ 77.5″ Hometown London, England San Jose, California, US Combined Opp. Record 74-34 40-49-1 Gym London Shootfighters AKA Championships NA NA Shawn Bitter- Haig was brought in as cannon fodder last season against Cezary Oleksiejczuk,
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With the completion of week 6, season 10 of Dana White’s Contender Series is now over halfway done. Other than the first fight of the night, this wasn’t a bad week. It was nice to see Dana give a good fighter another shot on the show after a rough performance. Also, we got a bunch
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Tyshawn Williams (8-0) vs Antonio Monteiro (18-5-1) Williams is a talented, athletic wrestler with real power in his hands, training out of the hard-nosed Xtreme Couture gym, and it shows. His one flaw is dropping his hands when he’s taking fire, which could be an issue here. Monteiro returns after a decision loss to a
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Tale of the Tape Mayton Perea Zevan Hunt Record 8-3 7-0 Age 26 27 Height 6’3″ 6’1″ Reach 79.0″ ? Hometown Quito, Ecuador Oklahoma, US Combined Opp. Record 24-16 39-27 Gym Team DC MMA American Elite MMA Championships EMMA Rage in the Cage Shawn Bitter- Perea is going to get exposed eventually, but I
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Week 5 of Dana White’s Contender Series brings us to only the second week this season where all five winners didn’t earn UFC contracts. A much better week all around, with no bad referee interference, a real Contender Series-level fight, and possibly the best overall group of contract winners so far this season. I believe
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Tale of the Tape Colton Loud Christian Natividad Record 7-1 9-0 Age 25 29 Height 5’10” 5’5″ Reach ? 69.5″ Hometown Fort Worth, Texas, US Scottsdale, Arizona, US Combined Opp. Record 25-15 37-16-1 Gym Genesis BJJ Arizona Combat Sports Championships Peak Fighting n/a Shawn Bitter- This is another time that, in order to get
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I’m not going to lie, week four was an ugly episode of Contender Series. We got a couple big finishes, and I was quite impressed with Silvestre Sanchez, but it wasn’t all good. I’m not sure all five contracts were deserved, there was a bad early stoppage, and the main event was a complete mismatch.
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