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PFL vs. Bellator: Champs set for February 24 in Saudi Arabia

PFL vs. Bellator: Champs is an upcoming super fight card, that will take place on February 24th at  Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It’s the next combat sports event, that Saudi Arabia will host. The preliminary bouts will air on ESPN +, while the main card will be available on ESPN PPV. 

Interestingly enough, the news came out a day after Ariel Helwani revealed that Saudi Arabia authorities wanted to postpone the UFC inaugural event in the region due to the poor quality of the proposed fight card.

PFL x Bellator is a collision of worlds

A few months back, the reports came in that the Saudi-backed Professional Fighters League acquired a rival promotion, Bellator. The news put an end to speculations about the company’s future, as Viacom made it clear that the media conglomerate is backing down from the world of combat sports. 

This brought even more speculations as fans and fans were wondering if PFL would absorb its former rival, or if Bellator would function as its entity. They were answered in some part by a series of face-offs between champions from both promotions, which took place at the PFL 2023 championship event. Inter promotional fight-card announcement followed that same night.   

PFL x Bellator: Champs lineup 

The event will be headlined by four clashes between champions of each promotion. In the main event, Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan “Darth” Bader will take on his PFL counterpart, Renan Ferreira. Impa Kasanganay will face Johnny Eblen in the battle for the middleweight domination. At welterweight, Magomed Magomedikow clashes with Jason Jackson, and in featherweight one of Bellator’s great and current champion Patricio Pitbull will square off against Jesus Pinedo. 

In other interesting matchups, former Bellator featherweight champion AJ Mckee will go against PFL 2023 season lightweight runner-up, Clay Collar. The legend of woman boxing Claressa Shields will continue her MMA tenure against Kelsey DeSantis. Saudi Arabia will be represented by a duo of fighters: Abdullah Al-Qahtani and Malik Basahel.

 

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PFL Vs. Bellator Champs Full Fight Card

Main Card (ESPN+ PPV At 3 P.M. ET):

Renan Ferreira vs. Ryan Bader

Impa Kasanganay vs. Johnny Eblen

Magomed Magomedkerimov vs. Jason Jackson

Jesus Pinedo vs. Patricio Pitbull

Bruno Cappelozza vs. Vadim Nemkov

Thiago Santos vs. Yoel Romero

Clay Collard vs. AJ McKee

Prelims (ESPN News/ESPN+ At 12:00 P.M. ET):

Gabriel Braga vs. Aaron Pico

Biaggio Ali Walsh vs. Chris Morris

Claressa Shields vs. Kelsey DeSantis

Abdullah Al-Qahtani vs. Edukondal Rao

Malik Basahel vs. Vinicius Pereira

 

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