GDT: 2024 PFL Championships

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Date: November 29, 2024
Venue: King Saud University Stadium
City: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Time: 1 pm ET/10 am PT
Viewing: ESPN+

MAIN CARD (ESPN+)

Featherweight Championship bout: Brendan Loughnane vs. Timur Khizriev
Women's Flyweight Championship bout: Dakota Ditcheva vs. Taila Santos
Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Impa Kasanganay vs. Dovletzhan Yagshimuradov
Welterweight Championship bout: Magomed Umalatov vs. Shamil Musaev
Lightweight Championship bout: Brent Primus vs. Gadzhi Rabadanov
Heavyweight Championship bout: Denis Goltsov vs. Oleg Popov


PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Featherweight MENA Championship bout: Abdelrahman Alhyasat vs. Abdullah Al-Qahtani
Welterweight MENA Championship bout: Mohammad Alaqraa vs. Omar El Dafrawy
Women's Atomweight amateur bout: Hattan Alsaif vs. Lilia Osmani
Bantamweight MENA Championship bout: Ali Taleb vs. Rachid El Hazoume
Lightweight MENA Championship bout: Mohsen Mohammadseifi vs. Georges Eid
Lightweight bout: Mansour Barnaoui vs. Alfie Davis
Heavyweight bout: Slim Trabelsi vs. Abraham Bably
Featherweight bout: Gabriel Braga vs. Jeremy Kennedy
Featherweight bout: Asael Adjoudj vs. Jose Perez
Middleweight bout: Costello van Steenis vs. Joao Dantas​

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[CDJ]

Better than nothing

 

[MMC]

PFL is trying to set the record for the longest card of all time with this one. I could do without the MENA fights but overall I do like this card, interesting matchups on the showcase bouts and I think most of the title fights this year are pretty close, hard to pick a winner. Particularly excited for Loughnane/Khizriev, Ditcheva/Santos, and Umalatov/Musaev

 

[CDJ]

Elbows legal for this one yayyyyyy

 

[16Skippy]

The filler to total fights ratio on this card is wild lol. What on Earth are they doing?

 

[MMC]

As much as I love Ditcheva, her being -380 is still wild

 

[MMC]

The filler to total fights ratio on this card is wild lol. What on Earth are they doing?

As I said before, wish the MENA fights weren’t on here, but when Saudi Arabia is financing your company, they can demand these things

 

[MMC]

Pinedo missed weight, Jeremy Kennedy fights Braga now

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I know I'm going to feel dumb when I get the answer but what the hell does the MENA stand for? Something North America I'm assuming?

Never mind I am dumb it's Middle East and North Africa lol

 

[MMC]

Happy for Goltsov, always thought he was very good but seemed to choke big fights

 

[MMC]

What a card this has been so far, crazy seeing Dovlet run through Impa like that. Missed the last 2 fights but saw the KO clips

 

[MMC]

Ditcheva would be champ in the UFC right now, completely dismantled Taila

 

[CDJ]

Great main card

Khizriev brutalized Loughnane

 

[MMC]

Probably the best PFL event ever

 

[CDJ]

Think this guy would fight for the WW belt in the ufc

 

[MMC]

Think this guy would fight for the WW belt in the ufc

I love that every promotion other than UFC actually posts their finishes on social media after they happen (and doesn’t try to DMCA strike anyone else who does)

 

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[CDJ]

I’ve been training jiujitsu for over a year now and I still don’t get how ppl are triangled in MMA. I’ve been dead to rights in a triangle from a higher belt than me- if the person hasn’t hooked your leg you should be able to get out of them. The cage prevented him stacking him as much as he wanted to but that still should’ve been enough to get out of it. Must’ve waited too long to start stacking and gone out while trying to do it

I was mid presentation for my job watching that secretly on the side, took everything in my power not to start MF Popov for ruining my parlay lol

 

[MMC]

I’ve been training jiujitsu for over a year now and I still don’t get how ppl are triangled in MMA. I’ve been dead to rights in a triangle from a higher belt than me- if the person hasn’t hooked your leg you should be able to get out of them. The cage prevented him stacking him as much as he wanted to but that still should’ve been enough to get out of it. Must’ve waited too long to start stacking and gone out while trying to do it

I was mid presentation for my job watching that secretly on the side, took everything in my power not to start MF Popov for ruining my parlay lol

The finish in the El Dafrawy/Alaqraa fight is even more surprising to me lol, no clue how those hammerfists were enough to KO him