Dana White's Contender Series · Season 10 · 2026

Contender Series

460 bouts · 321 contracts charted

This week's picks
This week's card

5 fights

Week 1 · August 11, 2026
The Contender Series effect Expect 3.2 of 5 to end early — about 1.8 inside round one.

A finish gets you signed 86% of the time here; a decision only 54%. The fighters know it, and it shows: 61.8% of decided Contender Series bouts end early versus 49.4% of comparable UFC bouts, and 34.9% end inside round one versus 25.5%. Every bout below carries its own projection, driven mostly by weight class — the strongest signal we can measure without a documented record.

Heavyweight
VS
Model pick · Anthony Wint PASS
52%
Ends early 79%
52% in R1
R1 52%
R2 19%
R3 9%
DEC 21%
vs 55% for this weight class on an ordinary UFC card
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Lightweight
VS
Model pick · Abe Alsaghir WATCH
57%
Ends early 62%
35% in R1
R1 35%
R2 17%
R3 10%
DEC 38%
vs 52% for this weight class on an ordinary UFC card
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Flyweight
VS
Model pick · Bilal Hasan WATCH
60%
Ends early 46%
24% in R1
R1 24%
R2 14%
R3 9%
DEC 54%
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Featherweight
VS
Tom Pagliarulo
Model pick · Ananias Mulumba WATCH
56%
Ends early 60%
33% in R1
R1 33%
R2 17%
R3 10%
DEC 40%
vs 48% for this weight class on an ordinary UFC card
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Middleweight
VS
Model pick · Jonathan Kunneman WATCH
60%
Ends early 70%
41% in R1
R1 41%
R2 18%
R3 10%
DEC 30%
vs 58% for this weight class on an ordinary UFC card
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Best bets board

Strongest calls

Ranked by the model's own confidence.

Model picks — odds feed pending
Ilias Bulaid
vs. Erick Visconde · Featherweight · Week 8 · Sep 29
69%
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Sean Clancy Jr.
vs. Gary Balletto Jr. · Welterweight · Week 3 · Aug 25
69%
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Adam Darby
vs. Patrick Rivera · Welterweight · Week 4 · Sep 1
67%
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Cristian Pérez
vs. Logan Paxton · Lightweight · Week 2 · Aug 18
66%
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Adam Livingston
vs. Hunter Smith · Lightweight · Week 4 · Sep 1
61%
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Modestino Rodrigues
vs. Brandon Holmes · Middleweight · Week 4 · Sep 1
61%
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The research

Full-history numbers

10 seasons charted
460 fights in the book
321 contracts awarded
307 alumni reached the UFC roster
Win by finish → signed 86%
Win by decision → signed 54%
Finishes that end in round 1 56%
computed live from the Bout Scout Contender Series database · finish your fight and the contract usually follows
The funnel

Contracts by season

Season 10 week by week, then every season's class.

Week 2
Aug 18
5 bouts
Week 3
Aug 25
5 bouts
Week 4
Sep 1
4 bouts
Week 5
Sep 8
3 bouts
Week 6
Sep 15
4 bouts
Week 7
Sep 22
4 bouts
Week 8
Sep 29
4 bouts
Week 9
Oct 6
1 bouts
S1 · 2017
17 / 40 · 42%
S2 · 2018
24 / 40 · 60%
S3 · 2019
31 / 49 · 63%
S4 · 2020
37 / 48 · 77%
S5 · 2021
39 / 50 · 78%
S6 · 2022
39 / 49 · 80%
S7 · 2023
46 / 49 · 94%
S8 · 2024
42 / 49 · 86%
S9 · 2025
46 / 51 · 90%
S10 · 2026
35 bouts booked
contracts awarded / completed fights, per season — the bar is the sign rate
How this page works

Method

The data

Every Contender Series season, bout, and contract award is ingested from the Wikipedia API into the Bout Scout database and refreshed with the weekly agent. The Contender Series is a tier-1 promotion in our opponent-quality system — wins here translate.

The picks

Picks and confidence meters are pure model output from the Bout Scout engine — no odds are shown anywhere on this page until the odds feed for Contender Series cards goes live. A pick labeled STRONG cleared the model's own confidence bar; everything else stays off the board.

The finish call

Whether a bout ends early is a separate question from who wins, and on this show it has a different answer than anywhere else in the sport. The projection is driven mainly by weight class — the one signal we have on every bout — and nudged by a fighter's own record where one exists. When neither corner has documented tape, the number you see is the weight-class rate, and it says so.

The scoreboard

Every published pick is frozen when it's posted and graded in public after the card. When the model is wrong, the record says so.

For entertainment only
Bout Scout model output is analysis and entertainment, not betting advice. No wagering is offered or endorsed here. If you bet, bet legally, responsibly, and never more than you can afford to lose.
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