DWCS 96 card, start times and how to watch da Lapa vs Cabral

Dana White's Contender Series 96 puts five fights on at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas on Tuesday, October 13, with no titles on the bill and five of the ten fighters still unbeaten as professionals. Three rounds a fight, one block, and four of the five bouts feature at least one Brazilian.

The headliner is an all-Brazilian middleweight fight between two unbeaten 27-year-olds. Douglas da Lapa (6-0) has stopped his last two opponents by second-round TKO at LFA 216 and LFA 234, and Davi Cabral (7-0) comes in off a split decision over Perry Stargel at Peak Fighting 53 in July. Somebody's zero goes on Tuesday. Further down, Ilias Bulaid (9-0) and Erick Visconde (17-3) finally get their featherweight fight. It was booked for Contender Series 94 two weeks ago and fell off that card, and it was added to this one on September 30.

Start times

Contender Series runs as a single block with no prelims.

• Main card: 7:00 p.m. ET (8:00 p.m. BRT in Brazil, 4:00 p.m. PT in Las Vegas, midnight BST into Wednesday, October 14 in the UK)

The full card

Main card (7:00 p.m. ET)

• Douglas da Lapa vs Davi Cabral, middleweight
• Luis Francischinelli vs William Rentz, welterweight
• Smilla Sundell vs Aline Pereira, women's bantamweight
• Ilias Bulaid vs Erick Visconde, featherweight
• Jason Asher vs Gregory Foster, lightweight

The most interesting name on the card is Sweden's Smilla Sundell (2-0). She is 21, she won three ONE Championship Muay Thai title fights at strawweight between 2022 and 2024, and she has two TKO wins in MMA, the latest at Tuff-N-Uff 154 in June. Here she fights at women's bantamweight against Brazil's Aline Pereira (3-2), who is 15 years older and won a split decision at MVP MMA 1 in May. Bulaid brings the other striking résumé to the card: alongside his 9-0 MMA record he is 18-3 as a professional kickboxer.

Visconde and Francischinelli share a recent night out. Visconde headlined LFA 232 in May and won a split decision over Gustavo Pintos, and Francischinelli (6-1) stopped Travis Arrellano in the second round on the same card. Francischinelli now meets William Rentz (8-2), who has two first-round stoppages this year. Jason Asher (5-0) and Gregory Foster (7-1) round out the card with a combined four first-round finishes in their last two fights each.

How to watch

Contender Series 96 streams in the United States on Paramount+, which also carries it in Brazil, Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and in Australia. In Canada it is on Sportsnet, with TVA Sports carrying it in Quebec. The UK and Ireland watch on UFC Fight Pass. Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are on Viaplay, which puts Sundell's fight on a home broadcaster, and the Netherlands is on Eurosport. Germany is on DAZN, France on RMC, Poland on Polsat and Spain on Eurosport. Everywhere without a named local carrier, it is UFC Fight Pass. The country-by-country grid is at how to watch Contender Series 96.

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