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Forbes
01-04-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
PFL 2025 World Tournament Fight Card Betting Odds
ATLANTA, GA - JUNE 08: Movlid Khaybulaev walks to the cage before fighting Tyler Diamond during PFL ... More 2023 week 4 at OTE Arena on June 8, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by) The first event of the Professional Fighters League 2025 World Tournament is nearly upon us. The first card of the tournament, which runs from April 3 through August 21, takes place on Thursday night at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. That fight card features the first round of the featherweight and welterweight tournaments. Up for grabs this year is a prize pool of $20 million. Below, we look at the betting odds for the PFL 2025 World Tournament 1 fight card. The PFL World Tournament 1 card begins at 7 p.m. ET with prelims streaming on ESPN+. The main card follows at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN2. 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 Welterweight First Round Bout: Jason Jackson (-215) vs. Andrey Koreshkov (+185) Featherweight First Round Bout: Jesus Pinedo (-160) vs. Adam Borics (+140) Welterweight First Round Bout: Magomed Umalatov (-330) vs. Logan Storley (+270) Featherweight First Round Bout: Jeremy Kennedy (+425) vs. Movlid Khaybulaev (-600) Welterweight First Round Bout: Mukhamed Berkhamov (+205) vs. Thad Jean (-240) Featherweight First Round Bout: Gabriel Braga (-600) vs. Yves Landu (+425) Welterweight First Round Bout: Giannis Bachar (+145) vs. Masayuki Kikuiri (-170) Featherweight First Round Bout: Nathan Kelly (+110) vs. Taekyun Kim (-140) Welterweight Alternate Bout: Joseph Luciano (-230) vs. Sarek Shields +195) Featherweight Alternate Bout: Fred Dupras (-105) vs. Nathan Ghareeb (-115) The winners of the first round of the PFL World Championship featherweight and welterweight bouts move on to semifinal round. We will have more on the PFL World Championship 1 fight card, including live results, reactions, and more on fight night.
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
MMA returns to Nashville this summer as PFL hosts its World Tournament semifinals
The Professional Fighters League has found a home in Nashville. After Music City hosted PFL 7 last August, the MMA organization returns this summer for the PFL World Championship semifinals on Thursday, June 12, at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. It marks PFL's second card in Nashville and third-ever card in Tennessee, after the World Series of Fighting − since acquired by PFL − hosted a card in Memphis in 2016. PFL's roster includes MMA stars such as Francis Ngannou, and the organization has made waves in recent years with its unique format, which will be on full display in Nashville. MORE: Why boxer Caleb Plant's love of muscle cars came from growing up in Ashland City The PFL World Tournament is an annual single-elimination tournament held across seven weight classes: heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight, lightweight, featherweight and bantamweight. The tournament spans over five months with fighters looking to win three straight fights to become PFL Tournament Champion. Each winner will receive a $500,000 bonus while a total of $20 million will be paid out during the tournament. Ahead of Nashville's semifinals, PFL will host four first-round events at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, beginning in April. Tickets for the PFL World Tournament semifinals in Nashville will range from $35 to $300 and are available to the general public on Wednesday, March 19 through Ticketmaster. The PFL World Tournament will stream live on ESPN platforms in the United States. Nashville has previously hosted the UFC at Bridgestone Arena in 2023 and last hosted a major boxing event in 2015, when Caleb Plant returned for a hometown title defense. Harrison Campbell covers combat sports for The Tennessean and high school sports for The Daily Herald. Email him at hcampbell@ and follow him on Twitter @hccamp. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Professional Fighters League World Tournament event coming to Nashville
