A week ago, it was announced that Fabian
Edwards was out of the PFL middleweight tournament. Now the
former Bellator
MMA title challenger is back in his original spot.

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The promotion announced over the weekend that Edwards will face
Impa
Kasanganay in the
PFL World Tournament 3 headliner on April 18 at Universal
Studios in Orlando, Florida. Edwards had briefly been replaced by
Jordan
Newman for undisclosed reasons. The main card, which features
first-round pairings at middleweight and lightweight, airs on ESPN
and ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, while prelims stream on ESPN+ at
4:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. PT.

Fighters
only get one shot! Watch the PFL World Tournament LIVE Friday,
April 11 at 11 p.m. ET on ESPN2..

Edwards is a two-time middleweight title challenger in Bellator. He
fell to Johnny
Eblen on both occasions, most recently dropping a five-round
verdict to Eblen at PFL Super Fights „Battle of the Giants.“ The
younger brother of ex-UFC champ Leon
Edwards went 8-3 under the Bellator banner from 2019 to
2024.

Kasanganay is a former PFL champion at 205 pounds. He is coming off
a first-round KO loss to Dovletdzhan
Yagshimuradov in the 2024 light heavyweight final. The
31-year-old has won nine of his last 11 professional outings.

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