The first-round matchups are in place for
Professional Fighters League’s new tournament format.
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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 tournament spotlight. The card is
headlined by a 135-pound showdown between two-time Bellator title
challengerMagomed
Magomedov and
UFC veteran Leandro
Higo. In the co-main event, 2024 PFL finalist Taila
Santos will collide with ex-Bellator queen Juliana
Velasquez at 125 pounds.
On April 18, middleweight and lightweight brackets will get
underway with a event topped by a 185-pound tilt pitting former PFL
light heavyweight champ Impa
Kasanganay against two-time Bellator title challenger Fabian
Edwards. In the co-headliner, former Bellator No. 1 contender
Alexandr
Shabliy will face 2024 PFL finalist Brent
Primus at 155 pounds.
Finally, light heavyweights and heavyweights will close out the
tournament’s opening round on May 1. Former Bellator champ Phil Davis
will square off against 2022 PFL winner Rob
Wilkinson in the evening’s featured bout at 205 pounds, while
former Bellator interim heavyweight king Valentin
Moldavsky will meet Sergey
Bilostenniy in the heavyweight co-main event.
2025 PFL World Tournament 1: First Round Main Card:
ESPN2 and ESPN+ (U.S.) | DAZN (Europe & Canada)
Thursday, April 3 – 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT
Welterweight First Round Bout: Jason
Jackson vs. Andrey
Koreshkov
Featherweight First Round Bout: Jesus
Pinedo vs. Adam
Borics
Welterweight First Round Bout: Magomed
Umalatov vs. Logan
Storley
Featherweight First Round Bout: Jeremy
Kennedy vs. Movlid
Khaybulaev
2025 PFL World Tournament 1: First Round Early Card:
ESPN+ (U.S.) | DAZN (Europe & Canada)
Thursday, April 3 – 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT
Welterweight First Round Bout: Mukhamed
Berkhamov vs. Florim
Zendeli
Featherweight First Round Bout: Gabriel
Braga vs. Yves
Landu
Welterweight First Round Bout: Giannis
Bachar vs. Masayuki
Kikuiri
Featherweight First Round Bout: Nathan
Kelly vs. Tae Kyun
Kim
Welterweight Alternate Bout: Joseph
Luciano vs. Thad Jean
Featherweight Alternate Bout: Frederik
Dupras vs. Nathan
Ghareeb
2025 PFL World Tournament 2: First Round Main Card:
ESPN2 and ESPN+ (U.S.) | DAZN (Europe & Canada)
Friday, April 11 – 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT
Bantamweight First Round Bout: Magomed
Magomedov vs. Leandro
Higo
Women’s Flyweight First Round Bout: Taila
Santos vs. Juliana
Velasquez
Bantamweight First Round Bout: Sarvarjon
Khamidov vs. Jake
Hadley
Bantamweight First Round Bout: Ciaran
Clarke vs. Kasum
Kasumov
2025 PFL World Tournament 2: First Round Early Card:
ESPN+ (U.S.) | DAZN (Europe & Canada)
Friday, April 11 – 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT
Women’s Flyweight First Round Bout: Liz
Carmouche vs. Ilara
Joanne
Bantamweight First Round Bout: Ali Taleb vs.
Zebenzui
Ruiz
Women’s Flyweight First Round Bout: Kana
Watanabe vs. Jena
Bishop
Women’s Flyweight First Round Bout: Elora Dana
vs. Diana
Avsaragova
Bantamweight Alternate Bout: Francesco
Nuzzi vs. Matheus
Mattos
Women’s Flyweight Alternate Bout: Ekaterina
Shakalova vs. Saray
Orozco
2025 PFL World Tournament 3: First Round Main Card:
ESPN and ESPN+ (U.S.) | DAZN (Europe & Canada)
Friday, April 18 – 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT
Middleweight First Round Bout: Impa
Kasanganay vs. Fabian
Edwards
Lightweight First Round Bout: Alexandr
Shabliy vs. Brent
Primus
Lightweight First Round Bout: Gadzhi
Rabadanov vs. Marc
Diakiese
Lightweight First Round Bout: Mads
Burnell vs. Jay-Jay
Wilson
2025 PFL World Tournament 3: First Round Early Card:
ESPN+ (U.S.) | DAZN (Europe & Canada)
Friday, April 18 – 4:30 pm ET/1:30 p.m. PT
Middleweight First Round Bout: Sadibou Sy
vs. Dalton
Rosta
Middleweight First Round Bout: Joshua
Silveira vs. Mike
Shipman
Lightweight First Round Bout: Clay
Collard vs. Alfie
Davis
Middleweight First Round Bout: Aaron
Jeffery vs. Murad
Ramazanov
Middleweight Alternate Bout: Khalid
Murtazaliev vs. Jordan
Newman
Lightweight Alternate Bout: Sergio
Cossio vs. Robert
Watley
2025 PFL World Tournament 4: First Round Main Card:
ESPN2 and ESPN+ (U.S.) | DAZN (Europe & Canada)
Thursday, May 1 – 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT
Light Heavyweight First Round Bout: Phil Davis
vs. Rob
Wilkinson
Heavyweight First Round Bout: Valentin
Moldavsky vs. Sergey
Bilostenniy
Light Heavyweight First Round Bout: Antonio
Carlos Jr. vs. Karl
Moore
Light Heavyweight First Round Bout: Karl
Albrektsson vs. Simeon
Powell
2025 PFL World Tournament 4: First Round Early Card:
ESPN+ (U.S.) | DAZN (Europe & Canada)
Thursday, May 1 – 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT
Heavyweight First Round Bout: Alexander
Romanov vs. Tim
Johnson
Heavyweight First Round Bout: Linton
Vassell vs. Oleg
Popov
Light Heavyweight First Round Bout: Sullivan
Cauley vs. Marcelo
Nunes
Heavyweight First Round Bout: Pouya
Rahmani vs. Abraham
Bably
Light Heavyweight Alternate Bout: Alex
Polizzi vs. Rafael
Xavier