The World Tournament semifinals wonโ€™t be the only high stakes
action on tap for
Professional Fighters League on June 20.

The promotion announced on Monday that a lightweight clash between
Mansour
Barnaoui and Archie
Colgan has been added to
PFL World Tournament 6, which takes place at Intrust Bank Arena
in Wichita Kansas. As an added incentive, the winner of the contest
will become the No. 1 contender for 155-pound champion Usman
Nurmagomedov.

Fighters
only get one shot! Watch the Semifinals of the PFL World Tournament
LIVE Thursday, June 12 at 11 p.m. ET on ESPN and
ESPN+

A native of Paris, Barnaoui is coming off back-to-back submission
victories over Yusuke
Yachi and Alfie
Davis. The 32-year-old known as โ€œAfro-Samuraiโ€ is a former Road
FC title holder and has finished 21 of his 22 professional triumphs
inside the distance.

Colgan, meanwhile, is undefeated in 11 professional outings. The
29-year-old Colorado native enjoyed a 2-0 campaign in 2024 in which
he bested Manoel
Sousa and Thibault
Gouti under the Bellator banner.

The announcement came as a surprise to lightweight contender
Paul
Hughes, who dropped a hard-fought majority decision to
Nurmagomedov on Jan. 25. After scoring a 42-second stoppage of
Bruno
Miranda at PFL Europe 1, โ€œBig Newsโ€ expected to get a rematch
with the Dagestani champion.

โ€œHey quit with the rage bait,โ€ Hughes wrote in reply to the PFL
announcement on X.

In addition to the title eliminator, PFL World Tournament 6
features semifinal bouts at lightweight, womenโ€™s flyweight and
bantamweight. The main card airs on ESPN and ESPN+ at 9 p.m. ET/6
p.m. PT, while prelims begin on ESPN+ at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT.

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