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Grading the Winners from Dana White's Contender Series: Season 4, Week 9

's Contender Series, which gives MMA prospects the opportunity to compete in front of the UFC president for exclusive contracts, has proved to be a valuable scouting program for the promotion, producing talents like Sean O'Malley, Dan Ige, Greg Hardy, and Sodiq Yusuff since its 2017 inception.

The 2020 iteration of the show has been no exception to that rule. This year, it has resulted in 33 new fighters being signed by the UFC—including three on this week's episode.

But which of this week's winners have the brightest futures in mixed martial arts?

That's the question we'll attempt to answer here, as we assign the latest Contender Series victors letter grades based on their performances on the show and the other information we've been able to scrape together about them.