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⚖️ #PFLAustin Official Weigh Ins

Interim PFL Middleweight World Title Main Event is official!

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Johnny Eblen: 184.2 lbsImpa Kasanganay: 183 lbs#PFLAustin | Saturday, July 18th | 📺Prelims 5:30 PM EST on the ESPN App | Main Card 8PM EST on ESPN 2 pic.twitter.com/CY1YR1q6MZ — PFL (@PFLMMA) July 17, 2026 Johnny Eblen looks to win an interim Professional Fighters League middleweight championship on Saturday following the PFL Austin weigh-ins.

Originally set to face middleweight champ Costello van Steenis in a rematch of their 2025 fight, Eblen (17-1) will now take on Impa Kasanganay for a second time instead. Both men made weight for the rematch, which originally took place in 2024 during the PFL vs. Bellator event. All fighters made weight with the exception of Jesus Pinedo, who came in .8 pounds over for his featherweight contest against Joey Ruquet. He'll be fined a percentage of his purse as a result.

Eblen is 3-1…

The Ultimate Fighting Championship may be quietly allowing its 135-pound women’s division to wind down.

MMA Fighting initially reported on Friday that Irene Aldana (15-8), former bantamweight title challenger and top-ranked athlete, has retired at the age of 38. The news has since been confirmed by ESPN Deportes, who further indicated that Aldana is not done with combat sports overall.

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The perennial contender leaves this sport behind with her name littered throughout the record books in her division. One of the more active competitors in UFC women’s bantamweight history, Aldana boasts a litany of top-10 distinctions in categories like most appearances, knockdowns and many more. Despite her last appearance in September 2024, the Mexican boxer still holds the second-most significant strikes landed in her division’s history, 1,028 compared to the leader of Raquel Pennington at 1,148.[embedded content]Blood for the Blood God, skulls for the Skull Thro…

Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight Valter Walker is not the type of guy who keeps his opinions to himself.

Parked outside of the UFC’s top 10 at heavyweight looking in, Walker spoke with Brazilian journalist Laerte Viana on Thursday to discuss the plight of his division. With no active champion—Tom Aspinall has stated he informed the UFC he will be coming back soon, but there is no date on the calendar—and an interim title back in the works again, Walker sees that the division may be wide open. Even so, he sees a chasm of talent in his class, while holding off-and-on training partner Sergei Pavlovich in extremely high regard.

Walker first spoke about his own prospects, where he freely admitted that he is not where he feels he needs to be to challenge the best in his weight category.

“You have to know which doors to open,” Walker said in regards to what heavyweight has to offer him in the immediate future. “For example, I don’t think I’m ready to fight any…