The fifth season of Dana White’s Contender Series will kick off
later this summer.
The promotion announced on Saturday night that the show will
premiere on Aug. 31 with a card headlined by a heavyweight clash
between Matheus
Scheffel and Azamat
Murzakanov. After that event, four other Contender Series
fights were confirmed for the following four weeks through
September.
The remaining featured bouts for the announced Contender Series
cards are as follows: Darian
Weeks vs. Josh
Quinlan at welterweight on Sept. 7; Jailton
Junior vs. Nasrudin
Nasrudinov at light heavyweight on Sept. 14; Chris
Duncan vs. Manuel
Gaxhja at lightweight on Sept. 21 and Lukasz
Sudolski vs. Ihor
Potieria at light heavyweight on Sept. 28.
Dana White’s Contender Series airs Tuesdays on ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET/5
p.m. PT.