Dana White’s Contender Series 2025 will take place on 12 August,2025 at UFC Apex in Las Vegas. DWCS 2025 is long event and will take approx 9 weeks and its finale episode will telecast on 14 October, 2025. Dana White’s Contender Series is designed to find the upcoming talent of MMA and provides chance to win the UFC contract.
How DWCS 2025 Works?
DWCS season runs once in a year. The president of UFC Dana White watch live fights and if any fighter impressed the panel of UFC through dominance, performance and exiting finishes, then Dana White offers the deal to the fighter, its doesn’t matter fighter win or loss the fight.
The main object of the Dana White Contender Series is to impress Dana White and get the UFC contract.
As include 2024 season, the series had hosted 79 events and approx 389 fights till now.
Below are the fighter list of Dana White’s Contender Series 2025:
Below is the list of rumered schedule of Dana White’s Contender Series 2025:
Week 1 – August 12
Weight Class
Fight
Middleweight (MW)
Yuri Panferov (8-1) vs.Chris Ewert (7-0)
Middleweight (MW)
Neemias Santana (7-2-1) vs. Ilia Bouafia (6-0)
Middleweight (MW)
Damian Pinas (7-1) vs. Murtaza Talha (7-1)
Welterweight (WW)
Jimmy Drago (7-2) vs. Ty Miller (5-0)
Featherweight (FW)
George Mangos (7-0) vs. Radley da Silva (7-1)
Week 2 – August 19
Weight Class
Fight
Heavyweight (HW)
Guilherme Uriel (6-1) vs. Josh Hokit (5-0)
Middleweight (MW)
Cam Rowston (11-3) vs. Jon Kunneman (10-0)
Featherweight (FW)
Jose Delano (15-3) vs. Manuel Exposito (13-2)
Featherweight (FW)
Ramiro Jimenez (10-0) vs. Tommy Cuozzi (8-0)
Bantamweight (BW)
Louis Lee Scott (9-0) vs. Kaushik Saikumar (5-0)
Week 3 – August 26
Weight Class
Fight
Light Heavyweight (LHW)
Abdulrakhman Yakhyaev (6-0) vs. Alik Lorenz (6-1)
Middleweight (MW)
Vitor Costa (8-1) vs. Ryan Gandra (7-1)
Featherweight (FW)
Marcio Barbosa (16-2) vs. Damon Wilson (9-2)
Week 4 – September 2
Weight Class
Fight
Middleweight (MW)
Cezary Oleksiejczuk (15-3) vs. Theo Haig (6-0)
Welterweight (WW)
Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani (8-2) vs. Jack Congdon (7-1)
Lightweight (LW)
Mandel Nallo (13-3) vs. Samuel Silva (13-4-1)
Featherweight (FW)
Cody Law (9-1) vs. Tommy McMillen (8-0)
Flyweight (FLY)
Frank Silva (7-0) vs. An Tuan Ho (7-1)
Week 5 – September 9
Weight Class
Fight
Heavyweight (HW)
Guilherme Pat (5-0) vs. Anthony Guarascio (4-0)
Light Heavyweight (LHW)
Felipe Franco (8-0) vs. Ivan Gnizditskiy (6-0)
Lightweight (LW)
Lerryan Douglas (12-5) vs. Cam Teague (9-1)
Lightweight (LW)
Samuel Sanches (10-1) vs. Chasen Blair (7-3)
Women’s Flyweight (WFLY)
Carol Foro (8-1) vs. Shanelle Dyer (6-0)
Week 6 – September 16
Weight Class
Fight
Middleweight (MW)
Will Currie (13-4) vs. In Soo Hwang (8-1)
Bantamweight (BW)
Cody Chovancek (8-0) vs. TBD
Week 7 – September 23
Weight Class
Fight
Light Heavyweight (LHW)
Rafael Tobias (13-1) vs. Jair de Oliveira (6-0)
Women’s Flyweight (WFLY)
Regina Tarin (6-0) vs. Jeisla Chaves (5-0)
Week 8 – September 30
Weight Class
Fight
Middleweight (MW)
Luis Felipe Dias (15-5) vs. Jonathan Figueroa (12-1)
Lightweight (LW)
Manoel Sousa (12-1) vs. TBD
Unassigned Bouts (Date TBD)
Weight Class
Fight
Heavyweight (HW)
Eli Ellison (5-1) vs. Brando Pericic (4-1)
Light Heavyweight (LHW)
Iwo Baraniewski (5-0) vs. Mahamed Aly (4-0)
Flyweight (FLY)
Rashid Vagabov (13-2) vs. Paulo da Silva (11-1)
Note: Some fights date and oppoents are yet to be finilize so listed as TBD.
Many Dana White’s Contender Seriesfighters are now top 15 contenders or champions in UFC. Some of the popular names are Sean O’Malley, Jamahal Hill, Kevin Holland, Bo Nickal.
