The UFC continues to find new talent through the Contender Series of Dana White after picking countless future world champions from the HIT TV program.
The TVN program of ESPN helps Dana White to find the emerging young talents, hoping to earn a contract with the UFC.
With the ninth season of Dana White's Contender Series that premiered this month, we look back on some of the biggest stars to make their name on the program, including two former UFC world champions.
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5. Maycee Barber
One of the best female hunters came today from the Contender Series of Dana White, because Maycee Barber has made the most out of her chance in the show since her UFC debut.
“The Future” had her first fight in the UFC after beating Jamie Colleen in the second season of the show. Since then her star has just grown and grown.
She has collected an impressive 9-2 record to rise near the top of the Bantamweight Division for Women.
With a large number of knockout winsts to her name, Barber is one of the most exciting women in the UFC today and at a certain moment it looks like to become a world champion.
4. Dan Ige
Middleweight than Ige has spent seven years with participation in the UFC and forges a fantastic career outside the back of discovered by Dana White.
He was a participant in the third season of the Contender series and defeated Luis Gomez in an impressive way in the third round of their fight.
Ige ended up Gomez with a second-hand choke, but suffered a loss within a minute when he finally made his UFC debut six months later.
Fortunately, Ige bounced back from the loss and achieved six straight victories to cement himself as a fan favorite hunter.
Although his record has been a little less impressive in recent times, there is no doubt that IGE is one of the most successful men who comes from Dana White's Contender Series in the last nine years.
3. Kevin Holland
If success would be easily measured in how many fights a hunter had participated in the UFC, then Kevin Holland would be by far at the top of this list.
The 32-year-old is bound for most victories in a calendar year, with five victories in 2020, and is one of the most active hunters in the promotion since his debut two years earlier.
The American hunter is impressed by both middleweight and good weight and earns many bonuses for the fight of the night and the performance of the night alone in recent years.
He earned his shot at a UFC career with a victory over Will Santiago Jr. In the second season of the Contender Series of Dana White, and is definitely the best signature in which money from the program.
2. Jamahal Hill
Former UFC -light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill is a fixed value of the UFC, but he made his start as just a lot of looking for Dana White.
“Sweet Dreams” defeated Glover Teixeira in 2023 to win the empty belt, just four years after a hill with a fresh face impressed his new boss with a victory in the third season of the show.
Unfortunately, his title government was short because Hill injury forced the belt to leave the belt before he had the chance to defend it, although it only shows in a title match and winning how effective the Contender series is in finding top talent.
You would think that a former champion of Hill would make the best of all contenders, but a man has even more impressed on the Octagon than he won his own contract since he won.
1. Sean O'Malley
It is clear that the biggest star that comes from the Contender series of Dana White is Sean O'Malley, who continues to impress every time he steps into the UFC Octagon.
“Suga” won his UFC contract by beating Alfred Khashakyan in the second season of the show to start an impressive and dominant run in the UFC Bantamweight Division.
O'Malley started an impressive win -streak, apart from a TKO loss against Marlon Vera at UFC 252, and earned a large number of knockout wins to become the UFC Bantamweight Champion in 2023.
He ran the Vera defeat before back-to-back losing to Merab Dvalishvili to end his title line, although he remains the best competition in the Bantam weight division.
O'Malley is such an impressive hunter when he is a character in the UFC and should be a big star in the MMA world for years, and it all started back in the Contender Series of Dana White.