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@OvertimeElite
Arena!
#2023PFL4: June 8th#2023PFL5:
June 16th#2023PFL6:
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March 9, 2023
The Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta will serve as the stage for the
latter half of Professional Fighters Leagueβs 2023 season.
A press release from the PFL on Thursday indicated that the
promotion would be returning to the 1,300-seat arena to run three
events this June. The organization, which has its regular season
kicking off on April 1 in Las Vegas, will be holding three events
at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in that city, and then turns to
Atlanta in June. The events are slated to go down on June 8, June
16 and June 23, and the PFL would then move towards its playoffs
that will likely take place in August or September. This venue
played host to the second half of PFLβs 2022 regular season as
well.
The first of three fight cards in this building will be
PFL 4: 2023 Regular Season, and no lineup for any of these
events has been released. The league did state that the
featherweight and light heavyweight divisions will be on tap for
this June 8 fight card, and the presumptive headliners will be
Brendan
Loughnane and Rob
Wilkinson β both champions in 2022.
On June 16, heavyweights will take center stage as well as the
womenβs featherweight division, but no specific competitors have
been listed on the marquee yet. The same goes for the June 23 show,
which will feature lightweights and welterweights. This pattern of
keeping two specific weight classes together of 145 and 205, 155
and 170 as well as the heavyweights and sole womenβs category has
differed from the previous year.
In 2022, the three groups were 155 and 205 pounders, heavyweights
and featherweights and finally welterweights competing on the same
card as womenβs lightweights. There will be no womenβs 155-pound
division in 2023, and it does not appear that PFL star Kayla
Harrison will be engaging in the tournament this season.