Brendan Loughnane won a fight in the Contender Series in 2019 but didn't get a UFC contract that night because Dana White wasn't happy that he went for a takedown at the end of the fight with a few seconds left, Dana felt going for a takedown in that spot was not the way to go, he felt he should've gone for the kill and tried to finish the fight. Brendan ended up going to the PFL and 3 years later he ended up winning their featherweight tournament on Friday and winning a million dollars, an incredibly larger sum of cash he would have ever made in the UFC. With that Contender Series contract he would have started out at around $10 to fight and $10 to win. He would had to fight for around 14 centuries in the UFC to possibly get a chance to make that much, luckily all went well for him in the PFL and he did it in 3. So Brendan thought not getting the UFC contract was the worst thing that could've happened to him in MMA, but it ended up being a great redirection which led him to