I’ll be a guest Celebrity Judge on the
@PFLMMA
Challenger Series this Friday night. Tune in on @fuboSports
Network at 9pm ET and help me decide which fighter deserves a PFL
contract
#PFLonFuboTV pic.twitter.com/52klQjnBb3— Wiz Khalifa (@wizkhalifa)
January 24, 2023
Week 7 of Professional Fighters League’s 2023 season of
the Challenger Series has found its eight participants.
A PFL press release on Thursday announced the four matches that
will held on the seventh week of
PFL Challenger Series. The 205ers will battle it out in the
Universal Studios of Orlando, Florida, on March 10. The event will
air on Fubo TV, and according to an organizational official, it
will be free to watch like every other CS cards this season. The
main event sees ex- Ultimate Fighting Championship talent Impa
Kasanganay (10-3) move up to 205 pounds to take on Brave Combat Federation vet Osama
ElSeady (8-2).
The other three bouts on the lineup for the seventh 2023 iteration
of PFL’s Challenger Series include: Cesar
Gracie Jiu-Jitsu rep Nicholas
Kohring (13-2) vs. the returning Joey Angelo
(6-1) who will be making his first appearance since 2017,
Challenger Series Season 1 victor Taylor
Johnson (8-3) battling recent Cage Warriors Fighting Championship California
victor Trey
Williams (6-3) and a pair of 3-0 knockout artists toeing the
line as Monte
Morrison (3-0) squares off against Roland
Dunlap (3-0).
PFL’s light heavyweight division has seen arguably the most parity
of any weight category since rebranding to a tournament-centric
league in 2018. In the four seasons thus far, no champion has
repeated, and every final has involved two different competitors.
The inaugural season crowned Sean
O’Connell as the champion, but not before he served as the
commentator for a few matches on his respective nights of action.
In 2019, after O’Connell hung up his gloves, Emiliano
Sordi clawed out from the pack to wreck the opposition and
claim the million-dollar prize.
The 2021 season introduced former UFC fighter Antonio
Carlos Jr. to the championship club at 205 pounds, while
Rob
Wilkinson snagged the top spot by decimating every opponent all
the way through his 2022 bracket. The winner of the Challenger
Series contract may be eligible to compete in the 2023 season,
depending on the victor and the remainder of the light heavyweight
field.