PFL World Championship 1: How To Watch Or Stream Tonight's Fight Card
PFL World Championship 2025 1 Ceremonial Weigh-In: Jason Jackson vs. Andrey Koreshkov
The first round of the 2025 PFL World Tournament takes place tonight, Thursday, April 3, at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. The fight card feature the opening round matchups in the welterweight and featherweight divisions. The headlining contest sees former Bellator welterweight world champ Jason Jackson against Andrey Koreshkov, who is also an ex-Bellator 170-pound champion. Also on the card, 2021 PFL featherweight tournament winner Movlid Khaybulaev faces former Bellator featherweight title challenger Jeremy Kennedy. Below, we look at the 2025 PFL World Tournament 1 fight card.
The 2025 PFL tournament is different from past events. The previous iterations awarded the winner of each weight division with $1 million. This year, the tournament winners will earn $500,000.
Another difference in 2025 is that the tournament is structured as a single-elimination bracketed event. In the past, fighters earned points in two regular-season bouts, with the highest point earners moving onto the playoffs. This year, eight fighters (and two alternates) have been seeded in a tournament bracket, with the winners moving on to the next round.
Another change is that eight weight divisions are competing rather than six: heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight, lightweight, featherweight bantamweight, and women's flyweight.
One of the more substantial changes is that all fights will now allow elbows.
The first-round fights and semifinal fights will be three five-minute rounds, while the finals are five five-minute rounds.
PFL World Championship 2024 Fight Card Results - Winners And Losers
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 23: Magomed Umalatov fights against Neiman Gracie during the PFL 2024 ... More Playoffs at The Anthem on August 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by)
Magomed Umalatov, who was one of the betting favorites to win the welterweight tournament is out of the competition after he missed weight on Wednesday. Umalatov, who was a -330 betting favorite to beat Logan Storley in their opening round matchup, weighed in at 173.6 pounds for the welterweight bout. As a result, Joseph Luciano will face Storley in tonight's action.
Umalatov was a finalist in last year's PFL welterweight tournament. He lost to Shamil Musaev in that matchup. Musaev knocked out Umalatov in the third round of that scrap.
Welterweight First Round Bout: Jason Jackson vs. Andrey Koreshkov
Featherweight First Round Bout: Jesus Pinedo vs. Adam Borics
Welterweight First Round Bout: Joseph Luciano vs. Logan Storley
Featherweight First Round Bout: Jeremy Kennedy vs. Movlid Khaybulaev
Welterweight First Round Bout: Mukhamed Berkhamov vs. Thad Jean
Featherweight First Round Bout: Gabriel Braga vs. Fred Dupras
Welterweight First Round Bout: Giannis Bachar vs. Masayuki Kikuiri
Featherweight First Round Bout: Nathan Kelly vs. Taekyun Kim
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Prelims: 8:00 p.m. ET
Main Card: 10:00 p.m. ET
Universal Studio in Orlando, Florida
Prelims: ESPN+
Main Card: ESPN2 and ESPN+
PFL 2025 World Tournament Full Schedule
We will have live results, reactions, highlights and more from the 2025 PFL World Tournament 1 fight card tonight as they happen.
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