2024 PFL 8: Hollywood Playoffs on the Laborious Rock Dwell in Hollywood, Florida, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (Cooper Neill / PFL)
Bellator names seemingly dominate the newly introduced 2025 PFL World Match light-weight roster.
On Wednesday, promotion officers introduced the complete eight-man line-up for the match, anticipated to kick off this April, by way of press launch. Among the many names introduced, former Bellator MMA light-weight champion Brent Primus, who additionally competed within the 2024 match and appeared within the ultimate reverse Gadzhi Rabadanov.
Rabadanov, regardless of having received all of it final 12 months, will return to the new-look match, which provides $500,000 in prize cash to the winner, on high of handbags collected all through the grand prix (earlier seasons awarded a cool a million, although that included struggle purses).
Bellator alums Alexander Shabliy, Jay Jay Wilson, Mads Burnell, and Alfie Davis are additionally set to compete. Of observe, Wilson is finished serving a suspension beneath each USADA and the NSAC after testing optimistic for a banned substance, an infraction that was traced again to a contaminated vape pen.
Rounding out the eight fighters that can compete within the win and transfer on, grand prix-style match are UFC vet Marc Diakiese, and multi-time PFL post-season vet Clay Collard.
The road-up breaks down as follows:
Gadzhi Rabadanov (24-4-2) of Russia
Alexander Shabliy (24-4) of Russia
Marc Diakiese (18-7) of England
Jay Jay Wilson (10-1) of New Zealand
Mads Burnell (20-6) of Denmark
Alfie Davis (17-5-1) of England
Brent Primus (15-4) of U.S.A.
Clay Collard (25-14) of U.S.A.
Sergio Cossio (27-10-1) of Mexico and Robert Watley (15-3) of the U.S. function light-weight alternates. Additionally introduced on Wednesday, Russia’s Khalid Murtazaliev (17-3) and American Jordan Newman (7-0) will likely be alternates for the middleweight division, the roster of which was revealed earlier this week.
