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00:00We've found out some more fights, though,
00:01especially two big ones that are going to be up on the top of this card as well.
00:05And that will be first.
00:06At Featherweight, you have A.J. McKee versus Ahmed Magomedov.
00:10Magomedov is a 30-year-old Russian, of course, 10-3 in his career,
00:13eight-fight win streak right now for him.
00:15Most of his wins have been by decision, including three of his last four,
00:18and has never fought in a big organization before.
00:20So, of course, you want to ease him in.
00:23No, not at all.
00:24Let's throw him right to the Wolves and give him to A.J. McKee.
00:27The 30-year-old from California, of course, is 22-2 in his MMA career.
00:32His last fight was against Paul Hughes in that split decision loss, of course, October.
00:37But he was on a four-fight win streak before that in the Bellator and the PFL.
00:40The former Bellator champion, very well-rounded,
00:43has fought the best of the best in Bellator over the years,
00:46some huge names on his rap sheet.
00:49So now he gets to welcome in Magomedov to the PFL.
00:53Going to be a tough fight for the Russian.
00:54We'll see if he's up to the task against such a well-rounded
00:57and polished opponent like A.J. McKee.
01:01Also on that card, as you see there at heavyweight,
01:05you will get Corey Anderson versus Dennis Golstov.
01:08Now, Anderson, the 35-year-old, of course, the American grappler
01:11with a lot of power, former UFC fighter,
01:13was 18-6 so far in his career,
01:168 by KO, TKO, 10 by decision as far as his wins go.
01:19The former UFC fighter is a Bellator champion.
01:21A light heavyweight, winning that abdicated belt
01:25right before they finished up with Bellator.
01:27He was supposed to fight Vadim Nemkov at heavyweight
01:30for the third matchup between those guys.
01:32They fought for the belt twice,
01:33and he was supposed to fight him at heavyweight back in January.
01:37That did not go through for whatever reason.
01:38Corey Anderson was taken off.
01:40Nemkov fought Tim Johnson instead.
01:42Now we get Anderson making his heavyweight debut against Golstov,
01:46the 34-year-old Russian, 36-8 in his MMA career,
01:50a four-fight win streak for him, 18 wins by KO, TKO, 12 by submission.
01:54He can beat you any which way.
01:55He has 17 fights with the PFL over his career,
01:58including, of course, that Oleg Popov fight
02:00that he won last year for the 2024 heavyweight finals
02:04for the PFL by the triangle choke in the first round.
02:07So this is a guy, again, you know, not that Corey Anderson
02:10is, you know, some schlub that you're just throwing in there,
02:12but, you know, a guy who's going up to heavyweight
02:14for the first time, supposed to fight Nemkov,
02:16who was a guy who was a light heavyweight
02:17that went up to heavyweight kind of more,
02:19maybe his mix, a guy who he knows well from fighting him,
02:22and instead of getting that,
02:24he is now getting the champion at the heavyweight
02:26from 2024 in the PFL,
02:28a guy who has a long career,
02:29has beaten lots of different guys.
02:31So not an easy welcome for Corey Anderson,
02:33a big challenge for him in his first fight up at heavyweight.
02:35We'll see how he does with that one,
02:36but those four fights at the top
02:38make you very interested in watching this card,
02:40despite probably a lot of guys that you're not going to know
02:43throughout the rest of it for PFL Africa,
02:45but, you know, you sure will get to know
02:46as they make their way up through that tournament.
02:48So that card in Cape Town looking very enticing on July 19th.
02:52Make sure to check that out.
02:54We also found out a little bit more about the PFL Europe.
02:56Now we talked about and started watching that, of course,
02:59back on May 10th in Belfast
03:00with the aforementioned Paul Hughes headlining that card.
03:03We saw the lightweight tournament get underway for PFL Europe.
03:06Now that schedule is going to continue.
03:08We found out some more dates and some more fights for that one.
03:11On Saturday, July 5th, right after Independence Day here in the U.S.,
03:15you will get a first round battle in Brussels, Belgium,
03:19with bantamweights on the card.
03:21Then in September, you will find the semifinals.
03:23The location is still to be determined as well as the date,
03:27but somewhere in September, we will get the semifinals for that,
03:30as well as December 13th, you will get the finals for PFL Europe.
03:35So that one, we have a date and a location, Lyon, France.
03:38So we get some locations on the first round, not sure on the semis,
03:42but finals locked in back in France.