Featuring in their return to Riyadh this evening, the PFL World Championships hosted a series of MENA-promoted clashes — featuring some of the biggest talents in the Middle East, in a slew of title fights from the bantamweight to the welterweight divisions.
Along with their cavalcade of massive $1,000,000 tournament clashes on tonight’s main card in Saudi Arabia, the PFL hosted a bantamweight MENA title fight between Rachid El Hazoume, and Ali Taleb.
And winning the bantamweight crown with a first round knockout in blistering fashion, Taleb would snatch the MENA championship with a brutal win inside the opening minute and a half of the opening round.
Moving on in a lightweight title affair, both Mohsen Mohammadseifi and Georges Eid forced each other the distance over the course of five championship rounds, with the latter becoming the champion in a unanimous decision effort in the PFL SmartCage.
Competing for the featherweight crown in the featured preliminary card matchup, Abdullah Al-Qahtani would turn in another knockout win, this time besting Marouane Bellagouti with a first round win via stoppage.
And finally in a welterweight affair for the MENA title, Omar El Dafrawy stopped opponent, Mohammad Alaqraa in the second round with another knockout success on a blistering preliminary card of action.