Bella Mir Headlines DWCS Week 3 With a 4-0 Record and Big-Name Pedigree

Dana White's Contender Series rolls into its third week of Season 10 on Aug. 25 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas, and the headline name is impossible to miss. Bella Mir, 23, walks in 4-0 with three first-round submissions and a resume that already includes a 2026 NCAA Championship, four Nevada state titles, and both U20 and U23 national wrestling crowns. She was also the first athlete ever to sign a UFC NIL deal.

Yes, she's Frank Mir's daughter — the former UFC heavyweight champ — but the pedigree stops mattering once the cage door shuts. Mir fights at bantamweight, a division that rewards power and pace, and she'll meet Alex Apodaca, a 32-year-old Texan riding a three-fight win streak to a 3-1 record. Apodaca built her game off a Muay Thai base while grinding through a finance career and training around long workdays before going all-in on MMA out of Colorado's Tiger Beetle gym.

Heavyweights and a Redemption Story

The card's heavyweight bout carries a second-chance angle. Mario Piazzon, 28, comes in at 12-1 and has already been through the DWCS ringer once — the kind of experience that tends to sharpen a fighter's approach. The Brazilian, a judo and jiu-jitsu product out of Galpão da Luta, faces countryman Guilherme Uriel, a 7-2 heavyweight nicknamed 'Urso' whose bear-hug clinch work earned him the tag back in his grappling days.

Then there's the welterweight collision that reads like a genuine crossroads fight. Sean Clancy Jr., a 23-year-old Scot billed as 'The One,' is a spotless 8-0 with every single win coming by finish — mostly through his grappling and submission game. He draws Gary Balletto, the 31-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island, who sits at 11-3 with a perfect 100% finish rate across boxing, bare-knuckle, and MMA. Balletto's father was world champion boxer Gary 'Tiger' Balletto, so a UFC deal would close a family loop.

The Finishers to Watch

Don't sleep on Ronald Humphrey either. The 25-year-old American Top Team prospect is 4-0 with all four wins coming inside the first round, and he says his love of competition is what has him convinced he's UFC-ready. Also listed for the night is Alexis Miranda, a 27-year-old from Tijuana at 9-2 who has spent more than a decade grinding out of Entram Gym for this exact shot.

The format hasn't changed: five fights, White and his matchmakers watching from cageside, contracts handed out only when the performances earn them. Season 10 runs 10 Tuesday-night episodes on Paramount+, starting at 7 pm ET. Between Mir's amateur credentials, Clancy's unbeaten finish rate, and Balletto's family history, Week 3 has more narrative than most.