Dana white contender series

Contender Series 2020 Weeks 1 and 2

Contender Series 2020 Weeks 1 and 2

Richard

Pretty good striking talent on display on this first week of The Contender Series. And good all around talent on the second week. No crowds at the Apex? We dont need no stinking crowds. We’ve been doing it this way since the inception of the show. Medic and Jacoby shined with their striking, and Adrian Yanez gave us one of the Contender Series KOs that we all love

Anyway, here we go again. Here are grades of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before, in other organizations. read more

Top 10 Stand-outs from Dana White Contender Series 2019

Top 10 Stand-outs from Dana White Contender Series 2019

Richard

OK, So I watched all of the Contender Series and I graded every single fighter. You’re Welcome. Well… It was actually fun. Anyway these are based on their show performance, and its not an overall rating of the fighter.

  1. Andre Muniz …… 5/5
  2. Impa Kasanganay 5/5
  3. Hunter Azure ……5/5
  4. Ode Osbourne …… 5/5
  5. Brendan Allen …..5/5
  6. Justin Gonzales …… 4.5/5
  7. Omar Morales …… 4.5/5
  8. Tony Gravely ……4.5/5
  9. Miguel Baeza …… 4/5
  10. Antonio Arroyo …… 4/5

So these are my terrific 10. I have a few more guys with 4/5 stars on my list but I feel like these 2 just edged all of them. I had Antonio Trocoli on my list, but he tested positive for a PED.

Two guys on my list did not get contracts. Impa Kasanganay and Justin Gonzales did not get contracts, I did not keep them off the list, because they performed very well. read more

Contender Series Grades Week 9 and 10

Richard

ALL CONTENDER SERIES 2019 GRADES

So that’s it. Its over. For this year at least. There were some guys on the show that deserved contracts that didnt get them for one reason or another.

There were some killers, that fought other killers and got a tough shake, and there were some guys that got in because Dana liked their personality.

I learned that Kasanganay was not a Layup for Kailan Hill

Here are grades of some of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before in other organizations read more

Contender Series Grades Week 7 and 8

Richard

ALL CONTENDER SERIES 2019 GRADES

So, the show is all about finding talent, but sometimes they just want to find personalities… Eh, that’s how it goes I guess. Capitalism is not a meritocracy, the winners are who ever brings in the most money.

Anyway there are a couple of fights I’m looking forward to seeing. I really want to see Leon Shahbazyan – I don’t know too much about him, but I’ve heard he’s a wizz on the ground. I’m also looking forward to see Kailan Hill. Now Hill is a take your head off destroyer – I’ve seen him tear things up in LFA. He throws wild stuff, and he’s very thick and powerful. He’s fighting Impa Kasanganay. It kinda looks like Dana gave Hill a layup in this one, but we’ll see read more

Contender Series Grades Week 5 and 6

Richard

ALL CONTENDER SERIES 2019 GRADES

There is some real talent in Contender series this year. Every now and again they give fighters a layup, and every now and again they set two super tough fighters against each other. Last season they set Maycee Barber up against Jamie Colleen. Jamie Colleen is a straight killer, and it just wasn’t her night, that night. This season I saw Armando Villarreal vs Ode Osbourne, both those dudes can scrap. So sometimes the match ups can be a little unfair.

Coming up, I’m looking forward to see Tony Gravely vs Ray Rodriguez. I also want to see how Harvey Park does. Harvey Park’s fights are totally silly; he eats punches and leaves himself wide open, but here’s the kicker, he has great fight IQ and he seems to possess the Justin Gaethje gene It’ll be interesting in Week 7 and 8 read more

Contender Series Grades Week 3 and 4

Richard

ALL CONTENDER SERIES 2019 GRADES

So Contender series really has improved. I was excited to see Armando Villarreal, but he got beat by a very hot prospect in Ode Osbourne. I have to make a pick between my Jamaican roots, and my Texas sensibilities. Villarreal has the bad habit of putting himself in bad situations, and when you fight people at the highest level, they take advantage of that.

So again, Here are grades of some of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before in other organizations read more

Contender Series grades

Richard

ALL CONTENDER SERIES 2019 GRADES

So, I’ve been watching the contender series, and I’m hoping to see some guys that I’ve seen on the local scene. After 2 weeks, the talent looks dry. I think the show set up some of their preferred fighters to shine and they failed.

Here are grades of some of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before in other organizations

Yorgan De Castro, Punahele Soriano, Miles Johns & Miguel Baeza got picked from this batch. read more