Mansour Barnaoui, Bellator 287 Credit score: Bellator MMA
The Skilled Fighters League will likely be in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on November 29 for this 12 months’s PFL MENA Championships – and in extra to a number of regional finals, a variety of Bellator MMA stars have joined the cardboard.
The PFL bought the previously Viacom-owned Bellator MMA late final 12 months, with a number of Bellator fighters getting into the league’s match format. On November 29, one other handful will debut beneath the PFL banner in one-off fights, together with heavyweight Slim Trablesi, who was briefly linked to a UFC deal, and light-weight grand prix alum Mansour Barnaoui.
League officers introduced the total card on Monday.
Each fighters final competed at Bellator Paris again in Could. Barnaoui will face Alfie Davis in Riyadh, whereas Trabelsi takes on fellow undefeated heavyweight Abraham Bably.
Bellator middleweight contender Costello Van Steenis, and former featherweight title challenger Jeremy Kennedy, may also characteristic on the PFL MENA Championships card, which precedes the PFL World Championships on the identical date. The occasion, set for the Kingdom Area, contains the next fights on the MENA portion of the occasion (with six title fights additionally anticipated for the PFL World Championships):
PFL MENA Featherweight Championship: Abdelrahman Alhyasat (5-0) vs. Abdullah Al-Qahtani (9-2)PFL MENA Welterweight Championship: Mohammad Alaqraa (7-0) vs. Omar El Dafrawy (12-6)Beginner Girls’s Atomweight Bout: Hattan Alsaif vs. Lilia OsmaniPFL MENA Bantamweight Championship: Ali Taleb (11-1) vs. Rachid El Hazoume (15-3)PFL MENA Light-weight Championship: Mohsen Mohammadseifi (6-1) vs. Georges Eid (10-4)
Showcase Fights
Light-weight MENA Showcase: Mansour Barnaoui (21-6) vs. Alfie Davis (17-4-1)Heavyweight MENA Showcase: Slim Trabelsi (7-0) vs. Abraham Bably (5-0)Featherweight World Showcase: Jesus Pinedo (23-6-1) vs. Jeremy Kennedy (19-4)Featherweight World Showcase: Asael Adjoudj (8-1) vs. Jose Perez (9-1)Middleweight World Showcase: Costello van Steenis (15-3) vs. Joao Dantas (7-1)
