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All First-Round Matchups Set for 2025 PFL World Tournament

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The first-round matchups are in place for Professional Fighters League’s new tournament format.

The promotion on Tuesday officially unveiled the pairings for the eight-fighter brackets at heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight, lightweight, featherweight, bantamweight and women’s flyweight. Each first-round event includes a four-fight main card and prelims featuring additional tournament and alternate fights. The four events will all be held at Universal Studios Florida, Stage 19.

The tournament will kick off with welterweights and featherweights on April 3 with a card headlined by a 170-pound clash between former Bellator champions Jason Jackson and Andrey Koreshkov. In the co-main event, 2023 PFL featherweight champ Gabriel Braga will lock horns with former Bellator title challenger Adam Borics.

The next event takes place on April 11, with women’s flyweights and men’s bantamweights getting the tournamen…

Locations Announced for PFL Tournament Semifinals in June

The Professional Fighters League tournament semifinals now have locations and venues.

The promotion will head outside of Florida for the next part of its bracket, with events at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 12; the INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas, on June 20 and the Winstrust Arena in Chicago on June 27.

Matchups for these events will be determined by the winners of the four first-round events in April and May.

Meanwhile, the PFL tournament finals will be spread out over three dates: Aug. 1, Aug. 15 and Aug. 21. Locations and venues for those cards were not announced.

The 2025 PFL World Tournament will begin with events on April 3, April 11, April 18 and May 1 at the backlot of Universal Studios Florida in Orlando. The winner of each bracket will receive a $500,000 bonus, and the tournament as a whole will provide payouts of more than $20 million. Events will be broadcast on the family of …

Fabricio Werdum Discusses GFL Opponent Change, Alex Pereira’s Defeat at UFC 313

After arriving in Curitiba, Brazil, to begin training for his Global Fight League debut, Fabricio Werdum learned that proposed opponent Frank Mir had recently undergone emergency spinal surgery.

Mir is unlikely to be able to recover in time for their fight in April, when his team (Los Angeles) is set to face Werdum's Team São Paulo in the inaugural GFL event.

“I heard about this news from you. Now I'm waiting for the event to confirm who my opponent will be, [Alexei] Oleynik or [Andrei] Arlovski,” Werdum told Sherdog.com. “Both would be rematches, but since they have opposing styles, it would be important to know right at the start of the camp. I've stopped all my projects, podcasts and lectures to focus entirely on the camp for this fight. This will be a wonderful opportunity to return to my roots, when I used to come by bus from Porto Alegre and stay in Curitiba at the Chute Boxe dormitory. Master Rafael Cordeiro is on the plane from LA to lead …

Alexander Volkanovski Confident He Can Beat Diego Lopes ‚Everywhere‘

Alexander Volkanovski believes he can beat Diego Lopes in all aspects of their upcoming fight.

Lopes and Volkanovski will fight for the vacant featherweight title in the main event at UFC 314 on April 12 at the Kaseya Center in Miami. While Volkanovski acknowledges Lopes’ skill set, he believes he can hold his own against the Brazilian.

Although Lopes is known for his dangerous submission game, Volkanovski won’t hesitate to engage on the ground. According to Volkanovski, Lopes will be very uncomfortable realizing that he can’t put his opponent away even if things are going his way.

“I think I can beat Diego everywhere,” Volkanovski said in an interview with interview with fight gear brand Engage. “He is dangerous. He’s gonna be dangerous everywhere, so I need to sharpen everything. Even if I wanted to go the wrestling route, or grappling route, I think I would dominate there anyway. Everyone knows him for his jiu-jitsu, but trust me I ain’t w…

Jiri Prochazka Trades Barbs With Magomed Ankalaev After UFC 313

Magomed Ankalaev and Jiri Prochazka have been going at each other.

It all started when Ankalaev dethroned Alex Pereira via unanimous decision in the main event at UFC 313 last Saturday. While Prochazka congratulated Ankalaev, he said most fans don’t like the Dagestani as a champ. Ankalaev responded by calling Prochazka a fraud.

Addressing Ankalaev’s comments, Prochazka claimed the only fraud between them is the champ. According to “BJP,” Ankalaev was cordial with him when they previously ran into each other at the UFC Performance Institute. Prochazka believes it’s the high of the title win that is making Ankalaev act “gangster” now. However, the former champ also claims that Ankalaev’s win came against the worst-ever version of “Poatan.”

“[Ankalaev] can think what he wants, but I know the only person who is a fraud is him,” Prochazka told Ariel Helwani. “Because when I met him in the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas, he was there, he wa…