PFL Champions Series 3 is coming. Friday, more than a month away from the end of the world tournament of the 2025 promotion, championship fights will again be the focus of a day of exciting action in the smartcage.
Coca-Cola Arena In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, serves as the setting for this week’s map. In the United States of America, the map of Friday at 11.30 am et/ 8:30 am PT starts up ESPN+ And the corresponding mobile app.
All in all, if there are no adjustments to the schedule for Friday, the final version of this great card will contain a slate of 11 fights in PFL Champions Series 3.
PFL World Championships at stake in PFL Champions Series 3
John Martin, who recently took on tasks as Professional Fighters League CEO of Peter Murray, Published a press release last week To illuminate the confusion about how the champions of the promotion are recognized
PFL -update: pic.twitter.com/wlgomd1GKB
– John Martin (@johnmartinpfl) September 24, 2025
“In the future, every division has one PFL world champion, the single, undisputed title holder in that weight class,” he wrote. Four PFL World Championship fights will take place before 2025 ends. Two of them happen at PFL Champions Series 3, including the main event of the evening.
PFL Champions Series 3 Main Event: PFL Lightweight World Championship: Usman Nurmagomedov vs. Paul Hughes II
At the top of the account of the coming Friday, the PFL Lightweight World Championship is in an intriguing one for grabbing for grabs Rematch. Current world title holder Usman Nurmagomedov (19-0, 1 NC MMA, 1-0 PFL) celebrates for the second time this year with Paul Hughes (14-2 MMA, 2-1 PFL). This is a five -round fight after five minutes per round to close the show.
In January, during the inaugural PFL Champions series event in the same Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, Bellator Lightweight World Championship was held the last ever Bellator Lightweight Fight, winning with Nurmagomedov (majority decision) after 25 minutes of action. What will the rematch turn out to be?
Nurmagomedov arrives with a 4-0 record with one no-contest in his last five fights that go back to 2022. Last year he achieved a unanimous decision on Alexander Shabily (24-4 MMA, 5-1 Bellator) in San Diego in San Diego last year.
He already beat Paul Hughes in 2025, so can he go 2-out-2? View the PFL Champions Series 3 Main Event to find out.
In the meantime, Paul Hughes takes the walk for this Rematch 4-1 in his last five games that go back until April last year. On 10 May he bounced back from the defeat in the first fight against Nurmagomedov, in which he held Bruno Miranda (17-6 MMA, 4-3 PFL) in PFL Europe with a first round knockout in 42 seconds.
Hughes has had more than eight months to stew about what happened on the January night. Can he even score the score?
PFL Champions Series 3 Co-Main Event: PFL Light Heavyweight World Championship: Corey Anderson vs. Dovlet Yagshimuradov
Immediately prior to the headliner, the PFL Champions Series 3 Co-Main event of the evening takes place in the light heavyweight division. Corey Anderson (19-6, 1 NC MMA, 1-0 PFL,) The last Bellator MMA Light Heavyweight World Champion, tries to add another belt to his cloak at home when he 2024 PFL Light Heavyweight Champion Dovlet Yagshimadov (25-7-1 MMA, 4-0.) This is also, also a round.
Corey Anderson comes in on Friday evening with a 3-1 record with one no-contest in his last five attacks that go back to November 2022. At the moment he has won three fights successively.
On July 19, during PFL Champions Series 2 in Africa, he stopped 45-Fight Veteran Denis Goltsov (36-9 MMA, 14-4 PFL) with a second round knockout. This is a man who had to Discover his own wife That Bellator MMA ceased to exist in January.
Imagine that you are the champion of an organization that cools on the couch and comes in and you tell: “Have you seen this? Bellator is now dead?” … and everything you can do is get your shoulders in confusion … Because you’ve still heard nothing. Fun
Jaaaah, that was me.– Corey ‘Overtime’ Anderson (@coreya_mma) January 13, 2025
Anderson has a championship tribe, but his opponent also across the street. Dovlet Yagshimuradov is perfect in his last five fights on 5-0.
Back on Black Friday last year he scored the PFL Light Heavyweight Championship 2024 via the first round Knock-Out (Punches) against Impa Kasanganay (16-9 MMA, 9-3 UFC.) Yagshimadov already owns the title of last year’s play-offs.
PFL Champions Series 3: Magomed Magomedov vs. Sergio Pettis
Also on PFL Champions Series 3, you see a Bantamweight Showdown Putten Magomedov (21-4 MMA, 4-3 PFL) against Sergio Pettis (24-7 MMA, 1-0 PFL.) The first has a number of 3-2 in his last five trips to De Kooi.
In Wichita on June 21, he achieved a unanimous decision victory on Sarvarjon Khamidov (15-2 MMA, 0-1 PFL) during a tournament alternative fight on the PFL 6 Early Card. Magomedov has been an up and down hunter lately and has had no persistent winning series since he received his hand five times in a row from August 2017 to April 2021.
Only time will learn whether this is the start of another such run. In the other corner, Sergio Pettis goes to Dubai with its own 3-2 record in his five previous MMA matches.
Three months ago he defeated Raufeon-Stots (21-3 MMA, 1-1 PFL) through unanimous decision after three trade rounds in the PFL 7 Late Card from Chicago during a showcase match.
Both hunters have had almost the same amount of preparation time before Friday’s game. Which of these men will stand up as the victor?
Last thoughts
Which fights or fights on PFL Champions Series 3 do you look out on Friday? Let us know in the responses.
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