The Challenger Series Week 8 Main Event!
Carlos Leal vs @chrisbreezymma
#PFLonFuboTV
Fri, April 8th | Live 9pm ET pic.twitter.com/bFFDXsMzLV— PFL (@PFLMMA)
April 7, 2022
Several fighters ahead of the
Professional Fighters League‘s “Second Chance” event are not
making the most of their opportunities. Headlining
PFL Challenger Series 8, with a billing that was announced on
Thursday, is a catchweight bout between Carlos
Leal Miranda and Chris
Brown. The main event was initially announced as a welterweight
contest on Thursday morning, but neither fighter hit their
scheduled marks. Beyond the main eventers coming in over the
welterweight limit, Ali Zebian
also missed weight, who weighed in 2.2 pounds heavy for his
featherweight bout against Aaron
Blackie.
Miranda (15-3) is coming off a quick 56-second TKO win over
Korey Kuppe and is undefeated since 2015. “The Lion” officially
weighed 171.2 pounds for the main event, just a shade over the
171-pound maximum. Meanwhile, Brown is 8-3 and is riding a
three-fight win streak inside the
Legacy Fighting Alliance. “Breezy the Future” bypassed the
welterweight threshold by a wide margin, weighing in at 175.6
pounds for his PFL debut.
Cody
Goodale (251.4) and Rudy
Schaffroth (266) both hit the scales ahead of the event, but
their fight is only a contingency plan. If one of the other four
bouts booked for the fight card fall through, Goodale and
Schaffroth will face off against one another, but if not, they will
not be competing.
PFL Challenger Series 8 streams live to FuboTV on Friday at 9 p.m.
ET/6 p.m. PT.
PFL Challenger Series 8 Weigh-in Results:
Carlos
Leal Miranda (171.2)* vs. Chris Brown
(175.6)**
Simeon
Powell (206) vs. Tobias
Baker (206)
Jackie
Cataline (154.2) vs. Jeslen
Mishelle (155.2)
Aaron
Blackie (145.4) vs. Ali Zebian
(148.2)***
Cody
Goodale (251.4) vs. Rudy
Schaffroth (266)^
* Miranda missed weight by .2 pounds and his fight will continue
as a catchweight.
** Brown missed weight by 4.6 pounds and his fight will continue as
a catchweight.
*** Zebian missed weight by 2.2 pounds, he has been fined a
percentage of his purse and his fight will continue as a
catchweight.
^ Goodale vs. Schaffroth is a heavyweight alternate fight that will
take place only if another fight drops out.