Professional Fighters League Announces Lineups for Three June Events in Atlanta

The
Professional Fighters League on Friday unveiled matchups for
the second half of its 2023 PFL Regular Season, which resumes on
June 8 at Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta.

News broke earlier this week — originally reported by MMAFighting
— that nine fighters had tested positive for undisclosed banned
substances after their bouts in the PFL heavyweight, light
heavyweight and featherweight brackets. The list includes
heavyweights Bruno
Cappelozza, Cezar
Ferreira and Rizvan
Kuniev, light heavyweights Thiago
Santos, Krzysztof
Jotko, Will Fleury
and Mohammad
Fakhreddine, as well as featherweights Daniel
Torres and Alejandro
Flores. The fighters have been temporarily suspended by the
Nevada State Athletic Commission and are notably absent from the
cards released Friday.

Despite the suspensions, the three June lineups still pack plenty
of firepower and are all headlined by 2022 PFL Season winners:
Featherweight king Brendan
Loughnane will top the June 8 event against Jesus
Pinedo; heavyweight ace Ante Delija
will lock horns with Maurice
Greene atop the June 16 bill; lightweight ruler Olivier
Aubin-Mercier will man the marquee versus Anthony
Romero.

“The PFL is excited to return to OTE Arena in Atlanta for the
second half of the 2023 Regular Season with three-action packed
events,” said Ray Sefo,
president of fighter operations for PFL. “Each fighter will have
one final attempt to punch their ticket to the PFL Playoffs and
take a step closer to a $1 million prize.”

June 8, Light Heavyweights and Featherweights:

Brendan
Loughnane vs. Jesus
Pinedo
Rob
Wilkinson vs. Ty Flores
Movlid
Khaybulaev vs. Tyler
Diamond
Marthin
Hamlet vs. Sam Kei
Joshua
Silveira vs. Delan
Monte
Bubba
Jenkins vs. Sung Bin
Jo
Marlon
Moraes vs. Gabriel
Braga
Chris
Wade vs. Ryoji
Kudo
Impa
Kasanganay vs. Tim Caron
Taylor
Johnson vs. Andrew
Sanchez
Abigail
Montes vs. Brandy
Hester
Alexei
Pergande vs. Akeem
Bashir

June 16, Heavyweights and Women’s Featherweights:

Ante
Delija vs. Maurice
Greene
Larissa
Pacheco vs. Amber
Leibrock
Biaggio
Ali Walsh vs. Travell
Miller
Aspen
Ladd vs. Karolina
Sobek
Renan
Ferreira vs. Matheus
Scheffel
Denis
Goltsov vs. Yorgan De
Castro
Marina
Mokhnatkina vs. Evelyn
Martins
Danilo
Marques vs. Marcelo
Nunes
Julia
Budd vs. Martina
Jindrova
Olena
Kolesnyk vs. Yoko
Higashi
Patrick
Brady vs. Jordan
Heiderman
Isaiah
Pinson vs. Denzel
Freeman

June 23, Welterweights and Lightweights:

Olivier
Aubin-Mercier vs. Anthony
Romero
Sadibou
Sy vs. Shane
Mitchell
Shane
Burgos vs. Yamato
Nishikawa
Clay
Collard vs. Steven
Ray
Magomed
Magomedkerimov vs. David
Zawada
Magomed
Umalatov vs. Nayib
Lopez Miranda
Natan
Schulte vs. Raush
Manfio
Carlos
Leal Miranda vs. Dilano
Taylor
Alexander
Martinez vs. Bruno
Miranda
Jarrah
Al-Silawi vs. Cedric
Doumbe
Brahyan
Zurcher vs. Mike
Bardsley
Abdullah
Al-Qahtani vs. Lamar Brown