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00:00now of course pfl that july 5th card over in europe we have started to find out some fights

00:05as well uh it's going to be co-main evented at band to wait by tyler lapoulos and ali taleb now

00:11of course lapoulos is a 33 year old french fighter just signed with the pfl but has a long history

00:17in mma 21 and 4 mostly by submission or decision so he's a guy that's going to mix it up on the

00:22ground in a lot of cases but fought for the ufc on he was on a two-fight win streak with the ufc

00:26before leaving and now being part of the pfl signing with them and beat vince morales and

00:31cody stammon in his last two fights so guys that you know you know this is a guy who has made a name

00:35for himself over here in the ufc now going to start doing the same with the pfl over in brussels going

00:39to be his first fight against taleb club the 27 year old swede is the 2024 pfl men at bantamweight

00:46champion was supposed to fight in the world championship tournament here for the pfl at

00:52bantamweight but was pulled we didn't know why at first now we find out he's going to be on this

00:56card he's going to be part of this uh tournament to maybe take one step up instead of a big leap

01:01that he was in competition going from the meta tournament to the world tournament so now he

01:05gets to start over in europe he's on a three-fight win streak 12 and 1 for his career seven wins by

01:10ko tko and is five and one in the pfl so that is your co-main event at those bantamweights the main

01:16event we found out will be a bantamweight battle between patrick habarora and boris on tagana

01:22both these guys from belgium so you got the belgium card in brussels you got the two undefeated belgium

01:28prospects going to be headlining it at bantamweight as part of this habarora the belgian bomber as they

01:34call him is six and oh five of his six wins are by ko tko and he has a 21 and six amateur record where

01:40he won his last eight fights so this is a guy with a long career even though he only has six fights under

01:45his belt in his pro career he's been fighting for a long time he's got a lot of experience we'll see how

01:49that translates as he headlines this card against atanaga the five and oh fighter who's all his

01:55wins are by finish four by ko tko one by submission so he is not one to go to the judges so far in his

02:00early career it is going to be very interesting to watch those guys match up at home in brussels

02:06in front of the belgian crowd habarora has actually been talking about how exciting that is how that is

02:11how big that is for belgium that you never have these kind of cards for belgium these organizations

02:16have not gotten over there of course you have a lot of european cards for different organizations

02:21in combat sports especially mma the ufc has been to many places it's been to france it's been to

02:27you know the uk it's been uh to many different venues in asia in the u.s australia canada

02:32uh brazil but it has not been over to brussels as neither has the pfl and now they will do that with

02:39pfl europe as you see it there the quotes from habarora as he gets ready to put on a show

02:43in front of his countrymen at home it should be very exciting to see that tournament really get

02:48underway there for pfl europe i'm excited especially when you see such great fights at the top you know

02:55when you add in that mix of the former ufc fighter in lapolis and you add in uh taleb the pfl fighter

03:01who has that championship mentality from pfl mana can he make that step up and win the european

03:06tournament you know pull a dakota didjua then come over to the u.s and win that tournament because he was

03:10close to come to the u.s and they said you know what let's take it down a notch and give him a

03:14little bit more runway here to start his career so he will do that in europe but i'm excited to see

03:18what they do in brussels as well as where those semifinals will be and where uh the finals will

03:23be of course in france we'll see those lightweights return but the bantamweight should be getting into

03:27action as well we've seen the full card for that announced as well a lot of and again fighters that

03:31we may not know here on this side of the pond in the u.s some we will plenty we don't but names we will

03:37surely start to learn about as they make their way through pfl europe and try to win those two

03:42tournaments it should be awesome to see and as i said that that card over in south africa uh that's

03:48going to really bring a lot of eyeballs to get people to check out pfl africa as they start that

03:54tournament with francis negato of course being a big part of that as well a very very shrewd move by

03:58the pfl instead of just having you know some of these fighters from over there that you've never heard

04:02of and you don't pay attention to they say you know what let's stack this card with people you know

04:06draw you in and then we can introduce you to the others

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