DWCS Week 7 Delivers Instant Classic as Dana White Signs Six Including Two Losers

Dana White's Contender Series Week 7 delivered one of the year's most violent nights, headlined by a lightweight war between Piero Guaylupo and Callum Connor that nearly rewrote the UFC record books.

The pair combined for approximately 400 significant strikes across three rounds in a fight White called "one of the greatest fights you'll ever see" and a potential Fight of the Year contender. Their output would have set a three-round UFC lightweight record had the bout taken place on a standard UFC card rather than the Contender Series, per Sherdog.

Guaylupo took the unanimous decision with 30-27 scores across all three cards, but the story was the carnage. Connor was dropped late in the first round but kept firing. Both fighters were hospitalized after the bout. Connor received his contract announcement while getting medical treatment.

"A fight of that level needs two people, and both had earned a deal," White said, awarding UFC contracts to both men. Connor and welterweight Jaden Ortega became the first pair of losing fighters to earn contracts on the same Contender Series night.

Elsewhere on the card, flyweight Marcos Degli earned his deal with a spectacular standing one-arm rear-naked choke finish of Paris Moran, extending his winning streak to 13. KSW standout Damian Piwowarczyk punched his ticket with a first-round TKO at light heavyweight. Welterweight Alvi Dasuyev kept his perfect 10-0 record intact with a decision over Ortega, who also got signed despite the loss.

The lone rejection was Norbert Novenyi Jr., who won his lightweight main event by decision but failed to impress White. "I didn't see anything tonight that makes me say, 'I got to have this guy in the UFC,'" White said.