Looks like a member of the Green Man Group…
Professional Fighters League (PFL) is gearing up to usher in a new era in mixed martial arts (MMA) later this month as its first-ever “Champion vs. Champion” event is set to go down on Feb. 24, 2024, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
While some of PFL’s champions will square up with Bellator MMA’s current title holders, there are several other intriguing non-title fights taking place on the stacked card. Among them is a Lightweight title between Clay Collard vs. A.J. McKee, which is the focus on the event’s first poster promoting the event.
Well he is Brazilian
And his wife is Russian
So of course he’s on gear
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/events/pfl-vs-bellator-champions
February 24, 2024
# PFL vs. Bellator: Champions
Boulevard Hall | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2/24
For the first time since the merger, Bellator and PFL fighters will go head-to-head Saturday in Saudi Arabia. The PFL vs. Bellator: Champions event features champ-vs.-champ matchups, other titleholders, a big pro debut, and the return of a boxing legend.
Here’s how to watch the PFL vs. Bellator: Champions pay-per-view with lineups, fight info and much more.
Broadcast and streaming info
PFL 6 Ceremonial weigh-ins at the Overtime Elite arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (Matt Ferris / PFL).
The PFL vs. Bellator: Champions event takes place Saturday at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The prelims stream on ESPN+ at 12:30 p.m. ET. The main card airs on pay-per-view (ESPN+) at 3 p.m. ET and features two big champion-vs.-champion fights at the top of the lineup.
Former UFC fighter and PFL season winner Sean O’Connell will man play-by-play duties, as he’s done since the start of the PFL tournament format in 2018. Chael Sonnen, who has worked with both PFL and Bellator in the past, will provide color commentary, as will longtime PFL commentator and fellow Pacific Northwesterner Randy Couture and former UFC title challenger Dan Hardy.
Officiating pioneer “Big” John McCarthy transitions from his role as Bellator color commentator to rules and scoring analyst to provide insight to potential regulatory happenings in real time.
Coming over from the Bellator brand, Amanda Guerra will provide reporting and interviews from backstage and in the crowd. Josh Thomson will partake in a reporter role, but his will be from the corners, as he conducts interviews with the fighters’ teams.
Ian Parker will provide insight into the world of sports betting, as he’s done for the UFC and PFL in the past. Also breaking down the betting lines will be longtime sports personality Jonathan Coachman, who has previously worked as on-air talent for WWE and a pre-show analyst for PFL.
https://www.mmanews.com/news/bellator-champion-ryan-bader-jon-jones-rematch-play-out
Bellator Champion Ryan Bader Assesses How Jon Jones Rematch Would Play Out: ‘It Would Definitely Be A Different Fight…’
Bader feels a second fight against Jones would go differently.
No It Wouldnt Ryan
Will this be on American time or some bullshit goatfucker time?
I’m sure it will happen in both time zones
Stacked
The Unified PFLlator belt is pretty awesome.
https://twitter.com/Turki_alalshikh/status/1759641844114227458?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1759641844114227458|twgr^a8e820d1f0e4d52afecf9049510fef6f75cb63b3|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmamania.com%2F2024%2F2%2F19%2F24077506%2Fpic-pfl-vs-bellator-seize-the-throne-championship-belt-revealed
“V6 Bellator PFL Champs” is that what the belt says??? Wtf lol
Just read Jesus Pinedo is out as well so the Pitbull fight is scratched.
Pitbull is having the same problem Volk has, age.
He is 36 now and tried to go down to BW last summer in an attempt to become the first three weight champ in big promotion history and he failed and then like two months later he got offered a bunch of money to take a short notice LW fight in RIZIN when he was there as a cornerman and he got KOed. So he is still the Bellator FW champ but just lost 2x at two other weights and he is 36 now.
They should have kept the Pitbull fight a Unified Belt title fight since he is now fighting the other PFL finalist.
Just strip all the champs who can’t show up for the PFL vs Bellator Unified events and go on with the Unified title fights with the fighters who can show up if you can get a champ from one of the orgs to show up.
Sucks Magomedkerimov had to pull out. He has had injury issues in PFL as well and its a shame because he is like 16-1 in PFL and the most successful fighter they have ever had but has only won two of five season tournaments.
One year illness caused him to not make it to the finals after a win in the semis, one year visa issues cost him one of his fights to qualify for the tourny and he won two fights that season but one was a decision so he didn’t have the points to get in the 2022 tourny. In 2021 he lost to Cooper in the finals even though he already beat Cooper in the past. Lockdowns canceled the 2020 season.
Thats a fighter with just a little bit more luck and no point system could be a 5 or 6x PFL tournament champ but he is only a 2x tournament champ despite being 16-1 in PFL and having a win over the one fighter he lost to.