Two-time Professional Fighters League champion Kayla
Harrison will face the most accomplished opponent of her career
to date when she squares off against Julia Budd in
the PFL 6 main event.
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The promotion announced the lineup for the card, which features
women’s lightweights and welterweights, on Wednesday. PFL 6 takes
place at Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta, on July 1 and will see
Rory
MacDonald square off against Sadibou Sy
in the evening’s co-headliner. Two 170-pound pairings round out the
main card: Ray Cooper
III vs. Brett
Cooper and Magomed
Magomedkerimov vs. Joao
Zeferino. The PFL 6 main card airs on ESPN and ESPN+ at 8 p.m.
ET/5 p.m. PT, while prelims stream on ESPN+ at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m.
PT.
The following bouts were confirmed for the undercard: Jarrah
Al-Silawi vs. Magomed
Umalatov at welterweight; Larissa
Pacheco vs. Genah
Fabian at lightweight; Nikolay
Aleksakhin vs. Gleison
Tibau at welterweight; Marina
Mokhnatkina vs. Abigail
Montes at lightweight; Martina
Jindrova vs. Zamzagul
Fayzallanova at lightweight and Helena
Kolesnyk vs. Vanessa
Melo at lightweight.
Harrison improved her professional mark to 13-0 at PFL 3 on May 6,
when she cruised to a unanimous decision triumph over Mokhnatkina.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist has earned all but one of her
victories under the PFL banner and has finished 10 of those
triumphs inside the distance.
A former Bellator featherweight champ, Budd’s 2022 season did not
began as planned, as she dropped a three-round verdict to an
overweight Fabian at PFL 3. That ended a three-bout winning streak
for “The Jewel,” who still gained three points in the standings on
account of her opponent missing weight. Budd is 16-4 over the
course of her career, with her other three defeats coming against
Cristiane
Justino, Ronda
Rousey and Amanda
Nunes.