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The Professional Fighters League is starting over in a big way.
After holding three small shows in 2017, the former World Series of Fighting promotion announced Monday that it will kick off its inaugural PFL season on June 7 at The Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in what is scheduled to be the first of 11 events this year culminating in a year-end card on Dec. 31 that will see six fighters walk away with $1,000,000 in prize money.
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Post #1 4/16/18 2:59:30PM
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Per MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani, the June 7 premiere will be an 11-fight card comprised of featherweights and heavyweights:
Featherweights
Andre Harrison vs. Jumabieke Tuerxun
Lance Palmer vs. Bekbulat Magomedov
Alexandre Almeida vs. Lee Coville
Magomed Idrisov vs. Steven Siler
Marcos Galvao vs. Nazareno Malegarie
Timur Valiev vs. Max Coga
Heavyweights
Mike Kyle vs. Shawn Jordan
Denis Goltsov vs. Nick Rossborough
Jared Rosholt vs. Valdrin Istrefi
Caio Alencar vs. Jake Heun
Josh Copeland vs. Jack May
Francimar Barroso vs. Daniel Gallemore
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Post #2 4/16/18 2:59:50PM
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The other scheduled events are as follows:
June 21 — Chicago, Ill. — Chicago Theater
July 5 — Washington, DC. — GWU Smith Center
July 19 — Long Island, N.Y. — Nassau Coliseum
August 2 — Long Island, N.Y. — Nassau Coliseum
August 16 — Atlantic City, N.J. — Ocean Resort Casino
August 30 — Atlantic City, N.J. — Ocean Resort Casino
October 5: Playoff Event — Venue and city to be determined
October 13: Playoff Event — Venue and city to be determined
October 20: Playoff Event — Venue and city to be determined
December 31: Championship Event — Venue and city to be determined
See the full rosters below:
Featherweight
Alexandre Almeida
Max Coga
Lee Coville
Marcos Galvao
Andre Harrison
Magomed Idrisov
Bekbulat Magomedov
Nazareno Malegarie
Lance Palmer
Steven Siler
Jumabieke Tuerxun
Timur Valiev
Lightweight
Will Brooks
Luiz Firmino
Brian Foster
Jason High
Yuki Kawana
Islam Mamedov
Rashid Magomedov
Ramsey Nijem
Natan Schulte
Thiago Tavares
Chris Wade
Robert Watley
Welterweight
Paul Bradley
Ray Cooper III
Pavel Kusch
Abubakar Nurmagomedov
Jake Shields
Rick Story
Herman Terrado
Bojan Velickovic
Yuri Villefort
Jonatan Westin
David Zawada
Joao Zeferino
Middleweight
Shamil Gamzatov
Anderson Goncalves
Eddie Gordon
Rex Harris
John Howard
Andre Lobato
Abus Magomedov
Bruno Santos
Sadibou Sy
Louis Taylor
Gasan Umalatov
Danillo Villefort
Light Heavyweight
Jamie Abdallah
Bazigit Ataev
Jason Butcher
Rakim Cleveland
Maxim Grishin
Brandon Halsey
Vinny Magalhaes
Ronny Markes
Sean O’Connell
Smealinho Rama
Dan Spohn
Rashid Yusupov
Heavyweight
Caio Alencar
Francimar Barroso
Josh Copeland
Daniel Gallemore
Denis Goltsov
Jake Heun
Valdrin Istrefi
Shawn Jordan
Mike Kyle
Jack May
Jared Rosholt
Nick Rossborough
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Post #3 4/16/18 3:00:40PM
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These events should be a lot of fun and we'll have mma on Thursday nights!
I like the win and advance format and it will be intriguing to see how it all plays out since there's bound to be injuries that will prevent some of the winners from advancing. And most of these guys will be going all out to get that big pay day.
Jake Shields strategy might work well for this and I would've liked to see Ben Askren in it.
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Post #4 4/16/18 3:45:50PM
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