Dana White’s Contender Series 64 Results

Dana White’s Contender Collection is again for the eighth Tuesday of the season, which is starting to close its conclusion.

This week’s block of fights will unbeaten Danny Barlow sq. off towards Raheam Forest in a battle of welterweight prospects from the South. 4 different thrilling fights will precede this week’s welterweight essential occasion, as 10 fighters vie to impress UFC President Dana White and earn UFC contracts.

This week’s episode of DWCS is ready to get underway at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, and will be streamed dwell on ESPN+.

Foremost Occasion — Barlow vs. Forest

Danny Barlow, a 6-0 prospect out of Tennessee with 4 finishes to his identify, is a fighter tailored for DWCS and the theoretical A-side to Tuesday’s essential occasion. Whereas he has fought twice prior to now for CFFC and is but to lose in MMA, he has no titles to his identify, however has loads of theoretical upside to go round. At 6-foot-2, Barlow is big for the division and carries with him an 80-inch attain. On this approach, Barlow reminds of former LFA welterweight champion Trey Waters, who has since punched his ticket to the UFC and even gotten his hand raised contained in the Octagon. He trains out of Regulation Faculty MMA beneath Head Coach Brian Corridor, who has competed for Bellator prior to now.

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Barlow’s opponent, Raheam Forest, won’t be a straightforward out, nonetheless, and is not any slouch himself. He additionally shares a couple of parallels with Barlow. For one, he has additionally competed in CFFC, which routinely makes journeys to states akin to Mississippi. In contrast to Barlow, Forest has tasted CFFC gold, although he dropped the belt to Charles Radtke in Philadelphia again in April. He rebounded towards Treston Vines, so Tuesday’s combat ought to completely be on the extent of a regional MMA title combat. He’s additionally set to fill in on brief discover, as Barlow’s unique opponent and former DWCS alum, Justin Burlinson, was compelled out of the bout with an harm.

Remainder of the Card

The heavyweights will do battle in Tuesday’s co-main occasion when Germany’s Alexander Soldatkin takes on Brazil’s Mario Piazzon. Piazzon is 6-0 with 5 finishes, however he has fought a questionable stage of competitors in his native Brazil. Soldatkin, in the meantime, is the much more confirmed commodity, having fought all around the European regional scene. He’s additionally using an 11-fight unbeaten streak courting again to 2019 after having began his profession 3-3.

Two 7-1 featherweights may also sq. off when Danny Silva battles Angel Pacheco. Their commonalities prolong nicely past their file, as each males have completed 13 of their 14 mixed victories. Nonetheless, Silva will enter the cage 5 years the junior of his opponent, Pacheco.

In a uncommon, non-women’s strawweight combat on The Contender Collection, Lithuania’s Ernesta Kareckaite is ready for motion towards American Carli Judice. The UFC girls’s flyweight division isn’t fairly as naked bones as the ladies’s bantamweight division, however can nonetheless use loads of depth that’s positive to be offered by the winner of Tuesday’s combat, barring shenanigans. The present will probably be opened by a bantamweight contest between Vinicius Oliveira out of Brazil and Victor Hugo Madrigal out of Mexico.

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