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The card for
Professional Fighters League’s upcoming trip to the Windy City
is now complete.
The promotion on Tuesday announced the full lineup for
PFL Chicago, which takes place on April 11 at Wintrust Arena in
Chicago and is headlined by a bantamweight tilt pitting Sergio
Pettis against Mitchell
McKee. In the evening’s co-main event, Joshua
Silveira will square off against Jordan
Newman at middleweight. PFL Chicago kicks off with prelims on
the ESPN app at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT before the shifting to the main
card on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
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Two main card pairings were officially confirmed on Tuesday:
Raufeon
Stots vs. Renat
Khavalov at bantamweight and Gabriel
Braga vs. Cheyden
Leialoha at featherweight. Leialoha is a replacement for Mahdi
Baydulaev, per a release.
The preliminary draw is highlighted by a trio of women’s flyweight
scraps: Viviane Aruajo vs. Shanna
Young, Jena Bishop
vs. Borena
Tsertsvadze and Kana
Watanabe vs. Paulina
Wisniewska.
PFL Chicago Main Card
Sergio
Pettis vs. Mitchell
McKee
Jordan
Newman vs. Joshua
Silveira
Raufeon
Stots vs. Renat
Khavalov
Gabriel
Braga vs. Cheyden
Leialoha
PFL Chicago Prelims
Viviane
Araujo vs. Shanna
Young
Jena
Bishop vs. Borena
Tsertsvadze
Omar El
Dafrawy vs. James
Vake
Kana
Watanabe vs. Paulina
Wisniewska
Slim
Trabelsi vs. Rodrigo
Nascimento
Biaggio
Ali Walsh vs. Dashiande
Harris-Moore
Valanti
Atsas vs. Nate
Jennerman