Overview
- Alex Apodaca defeated Bella Mir by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) to earn a UFC contract on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas.
- Mir entered the fight as the heaviest betting favorite in Contender Series history, listed as steep as -6000 at DraftKings, which made Apodaca’s win one of the biggest odds upsets the series has seen.
- UFC president Dana White said he had been ‘extremely biased’ toward Mir because of a long relationship with her family but awarded a contract to Apodaca after the performance.
- Four other fighters on the Week 3 card — Guilherme Uriel, Sean Clancy Jr., Ronald Humphrey and Nick Galanti — won by early stoppage and were reported to have secured UFC contracts.
- The result puts Bella Mir, now 4-1, back to reassess experience in full-length fights and underscores DWCS’s finish-driven evaluation model and its impact on immediate UFC roster decisions.