Lightweights and light heavyweights will step to the stage when the
Professional Fighters League kicks off its 2022 campaign and
the chase for $1 million bounties begins.
Clay
Collard tipped the scales at 155 pounds in advance of his
PFL 1 headliner opposite fellow
Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Jeremy
Stephens (156) on Wednesday at Esports Stadium Arlington in
Arlington, Texas. Meanwhile, Raush
Manfio (156) and Don Madge
(155.75) were also given the green light to compete at Tuesday’s
official weigh-in.
PFL 1 “Collard vs. Stephens”—which airs live on ESPN at 9 p.m. ET/6
p.m. PT—features two other matches on the main card, as Antonio
Carlos Jr. (205.5) locks horns with Delan Monte
(205) at light heavyweight and Natan
Schulte (156) toes the line against Olivier
Aubin-Mercier (155.75) at lightweight. The six-fight undercard,
highlighted by a light heavyweight tilt between Emiliano
Sordi (205.5) and Cory
Hendricks (205.75), will stream to ESPN+ in its entirety at 6
p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.
PFL 1 Weigh-in Results:
Clay
Collard (155) vs. Jeremy
Stephens (156)
Raush
Manfio (156) vs. Don Madge
(155.75)
Antonio
Carlos Jr. (205.5) vs. Delan Monte
(205)
Natan
Schulte (156) vs. Olivier
Aubin-Mercier (155.75)
Emiliano
Sordi (205.5) vs. Cory
Hendricks (205.75)
Alex
Martinez (156) vs. Steven Ray
(155.5)
Marthin
Hamlet (205.75) vs. Teodoras
Aukstuolis (204.5)
Omari
Akhmedov (204.5) vs. Viktor
Pesta (205.5)
Rob
Wilkinson (205) vs. Bruce Souto
(204.5)
Simeon
Powell (205.75) vs. Clinton
Williams (204.5)