The upcoming PFL vs. Bellator card has already taken profitable.
Contemporary PFL welterweight champion Magomed Magomedkerimov has been compelled out of his fight against Bellator champion Jason Jackson resulting from undisclosed reasons. In his space, frail PFL champion Ray Cooper III now faces Jackson on the card that takes space on Feb. 24 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The unique matchup is expected to occur at a 182-pound catchweight. A pair of folks with recordsdata of the promotion’s plans confirmed the news to MMA Combating on Monday following an initial myth from MMA Junkie.
Cooper accepts the fight as a two-time PFL champion after a hit welterweight gold in 2019 and but but again in 2021. He ruin up a pair of fights with Magomedkerimov, losing via submission of their first stumble upon after which incomes a brutal knockout in a rematch two years later.
Most neutral neutral nowadays, Cooper dropped a unanimous choice to UFC extinct Derek Brunson on the 2023 PFL Championship card this past November. Total, Cooper has long gone 3-2 in his last 5 fights, in conjunction with wins over Brett Cooper and Rory MacDonald.
As for Jackson, he’ll compete for the principle time since his magnificent upset over frail Bellator champion Yaroslav Amosov this past November. The third-spherical knockout ended Amosov’s undefeated trek, and Jackson infamous his first championship since becoming a member of the Bellator roster in 2019.
Total, Jackson has rattled off seven wins in a row, and he’ll watch to develop it eight when he faces Cooper on the PFL vs. Bellator card in February.
