Atlantic City PFL Fight Previews: Key Matchups & Styles Analysis

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00:00August 1st, Friday, Atlantic City, welterweight final, Thad, Gene, Logan Storley, of course,

00:06the headliner for that card.

00:08Featherweight final, Jesus Pinedo, Movilian, Javi Laev for that card, for that title.

00:15I mean, that's Storley.

00:15Gene one's going to be a battle, of course, of different styles.

00:19Thad, Gene wants to, you know, pick you apart on the feet, knock you out.

00:22Logan Storley wants to drag you into the deep end of the pool and just, you know, smother

00:25you on the mat and wants to make up for his opponent, Jason Jackson, losing to Thad, Gene

00:29in the semis.

00:30On the other hand, you have Jesus Pinedo versus Movilian Haibulayev.

00:34That one is going to be the featherweight Pinedo.

00:37Again, another striker, Haibulayev, going to be trying to probably, you know, smother his

00:41opponent a little more.

00:41Has some great striking opponents, some great striking that we'll see, but that could be

00:45a battle of styles as well.

00:46Then, Charlotte, Friday, August 15th, you have lightweight final between Alfie Davis

00:51and Gazi Rabotinov as the headliner on that card.

00:54The women's flyweight final between Jenna Bishop and Liz Karmouche as the co-made event

00:58and the bantamweight final between Marcelli Alves and Justin Wetzel as the other one on

01:03that card.

01:04Three titles, three World Championship tournament finishes on the end there.

01:08Davis versus Rabotinov should be a great battle between these two guys striking.

01:12Bishop Karmouche could be a, you know, a battle of attrition of who can control things on the

01:16ground and get a little bit more of the ground and pound, the ugly fights in the clinch and

01:20against the cage.

01:21And then Alves versus Wetzel.

01:22So that's going to be another one of stylistic matchups.

01:25You know, I think Alves wants to do a little bit more striking.

01:27Wetzel probably wants to take you down and smother you more on that one.

01:30And then Thursday, August 21st in Hollywood, Florida, the last one where your headline

01:34middleweight final Fabian Edwards, Dalton Rasta, that should be a great striking battle

01:38between those two guys.

01:39That's going to be an awesome one to see.

01:41Light heavyweight final of Sullivan Cawley versus Antonio Carlos Jr.

01:45Another one where it could be some good striking, but it all depends on who controls the

01:48action.

01:49I think if Carlos Jr. has his way, as we've seen, you know, he's going to want to put you

01:52in the clinch against the cage and grind you down.

01:54Cawley, I think, wants some more movement, more bouncing on the feet and trying to pick

01:58you apart, as we saw him do against Phil Davis.

02:00And then this one, a little bit further down that guard, you got a couple of showcase fights

02:03before you get to the heavyweight final between Alexander Romanov and Alex Popov.

02:08This one is going to be an ugly one.

02:10This one is going to be a tight one.

02:12You know, Romanov, I think, holds a little bit more advantage on his defeat if we keep it in

02:17the middle of the ring.

02:17You know, I think he could do better picking apart Popov.

02:20Popov, as we've seen, he wants to grind you down.

02:22He wants to get you in the clinch.

02:23He wants to push you against the cage, take you down, wear you down, you know, do what

02:27he can over the course of those rounds in order to beat you.

02:30It's going to be who can control the action and where it occurs.

02:33And all that is going to be some great battles over those, like we said, stocked cards throughout.

02:39You're going to see some extra fighters, some of these guys that we've seen in the tournament

02:41that didn't make it this far, you know, in some other matchups to see what we can

02:44do with them.

02:44You're going to see Nathan Kelly in a featherweight showcase fight against Dupris on that first

02:49card.

02:49On the second card, we get some great battles like Juliana Velasquez versus Ekaterina Shakalova.

02:55You know, a great battle between those two in a rematch.

02:59Biagio Ali Walsh is going to have a lightweight showcase fight.

03:02We'll see who his opponent is on that second card.

03:03That hasn't been announced yet.

03:04Ashley Thiner making her return to the PFL here.

03:08We'll see what she can do in her showcase fight on that women's flyweight division.

03:13That's one of the first fights on that card.

03:15And then also that last card, Imba Kasanganai, Mike Shipman.

03:18That should be an awesome battle at middleweight.

03:21Hilo Steny versus Carl Williams at heavyweight.

03:23Silvera versus Ramazanov at middleweight.

03:26Some awesome showcase fights to round out those cards.

03:28Silvera versus Ramazanov at middleweight.

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