Shane
Burgos’ highly anticipated Professional Fighters League debut will have to
wait—at least for a while.
Burgos, an 11-fight Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran, was
surprisingly not re-signed by the organization after his July win
over Charles
Jourdain and joined the PFL shortly thereafter. The 31-year-old
New Yorker’s premiere was then slated for the 2022 Season Championships on
Nov. 25. However, according to a PFL press release Monday, Burgos
has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled bout with Marlon
Moraes due to an unspecified injury. Burgos will be replaced by
Sheymon
Moraes, a fellow UFC veteran who has been with the PFL since
2019.
The new pairing will be a rematch, as the two Brazilians met in
2015 under the banner of PFL’s predecessor World Series of Fighting, with Marlon defending
his WSOF featherweight title successfully via third-round
submission.
The 2002 Season PFL Championships take place on Nov. 25, at the
Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and will be
available on ESPN+ pay-per-view. The 12-fight bill is set to be
headlined by the women’s lightweight title fight between Kayla
Harrison and Larissa
Pacheco, and includes championship fights in six other
divisions: men’s featherweight, heavyweight, men’s lightweight,
welterweight and light heavyweight.