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Four fighters earn UFC contracts in Contender Series season finale
Dana White’s Contender Series held its season finale in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
The show gives fighters a chance to earn contracts with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC.
Gregory Foster, Douglas Lapa, Luis Francischinelli and Smilla Sundell earned contracts after their fights.
Foster won by unanimous decision, while Lapa and Francischinelli won by technical knockout; Sundell won her bout by unanimous decision.
Sundell got a contract despite White wanting her to gain more experience, after matchmaker Mick Maynard disagreed with him.
Erick Visconde won his fight but did not receive a contract, as White said he wanted to see more from him.
Four fighters earned UFC contracts in the final week of Dana White’s Contender Series Season 10 in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
The contract winners were Gregory Foster, Douglas Lapa, Luis Francischinelli and Smilla Sundell.
Foster and Sundell won unanimous decisions, while Lapa and Francischinelli won by technical knockout.
Erick Visconde defeated Ilias Bulaid by unanimous decision in the main event but did not receive a contract.
UFC CEO Dana White said he was outvoted by matchmaker Mick Maynard over whether Sundell should receive a contract.
- Who
- Gregory Foster, Douglas Lapa, Luis Francischinelli and Smilla Sundell earned contracts.
- What
- Four fighters received UFC contracts at the season finale of Dana White’s Contender Series.
- When
- Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
- Where
- Meta Apex in Las Vegas.
- Why
- The contracts followed the fighters’ performances; the sources do not state a single reason for awarding all four.
Dana White
Mick Maynard
Sundell’s UFC contract
Dana White
White said Sundell was young and should gain more experience before joining the UFC.
Mick Maynard
Maynard disagreed and considered Sundell a serious talent in the women’s division.
The Contender Series Season 10 finale took place at Meta Apex in Las Vegas.
Gregory Foster defeated Jason Asher by unanimous decision.
Erick Visconde defeated Ilias Bulaid by unanimous decision but did not receive a contract.
- Contracts awarded
- 4
- Venue
- Meta Apex, Las Vegas
- Foster vs. Asher
- Foster won by unanimous decision
- Lapa vs. Cabral
- Lapa won by third-round TKO
- Francischinelli vs. Rentz
- Francischinelli won by first-round TKO
- Sundell vs. Aline Pereira
- Sundell won by unanimous decision
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What people are saying
The pace you set tonight, the shots you landed, the shots you took, you opened the show the way I love the show to be opened.
So, I’ve been outvoted tonight. Welcome to the UFC.
You put on a grappling masterclass tonight. But you did not do what I expect to see in the main event in the last episode of the Contender.
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