Alexander Shabliy made his return after virtually two years exterior of MMA competitors and whereas he received, it didn’t precisely gentle the creativeness of PFL’s CEO on hearth. PFL San Diego noticed Shabliy return to combating after a previous loss to Usman Nurmagomedov in September 2024 and Shabliy went 2-0 over Alfie Davis in his June twenty seventh comeback bout.
Their rematch performed out the identical as their first encounter in as far as Alexander Shabliy secured one other unanimous choice victory. This could theoretically place him properly for a crack on the winner of the aforementioned Nurmagomedov PFL light-weight title protection as he takes on Archie Colgan within the coming weeks at PFL New York.
The 33-year-old curiously sufficient additionally indicated some curiosity in a conflict with PFL San Diego victor AJ McKee and Shabliy talked about he would transfer right down to 145 kilos to conflict with ‘The Mercenary’ in a featherweight title battle, if provided. The native of Russia put out a number of desired choices throughout his post-fight press convention mic time. However when it was PFL CEO John Martin’s flip to deal with on-site reporters and reply to a few of Alexander Shabliy’s desired subsequent bouts, Martin stated,
“I believe we’d have to have a look at each of them. I imply, [Alexander] Shabliy had a extremely robust win immediately. It wasn’t terribly convincing, so I believe we’ll check out it, however he had an excellent win tonight.”
Alexander Shabliy’s disclosed payout at PFL San Diego
The California State Athletic Fee is without doubt one of the few remaining commissions that discloses fighter pay after occasions and so they continued with this sample within the aftermath of PFL San Diego. In figures disclosed to MMA Fighting, Alexander Shabliy made $50,000 general which incorporates 25 Ok to point out and a 25 Ok win bonus. The remaining of the payouts for this California-based foray for the PFL reads as follows:
- A.J. McKee: $100,000, sans win bonus
- Salamat Isbulaev: $10,000 to point out, $10,000 to win – $10,000 – LOST
- Liz Carmouche: $50,000 to point out, $50,000 to win – $100,000 – WIN
- Viviane Araujo: $20,000 to point out, $20,000 to win – $20,000 – LOST
- Alfie Davis: $20,000 to point out, $20,000 to win – $20,000 – LOST
- Abraham Bably: $10,000 to point out, $10,000 to win – $10,000 – LOST
- Rob Wilkinson: $20,000 to point out, $20,000 to win – $40,000 – WON
- Khasan Magomedsharipov: $20,000 to point out, $20,000 to win – $40,000 – WON
- Joshua Weems: $10,000 to point out, $10,000 to win – $10,000 – LOST
- Ariane Da Silva: $13,000 to point out, $13,000 to win – $13,000 – LOST
- Jena Bishop: $20,000 to point out, $20,000 to win – $40,000 – WON
- Justin Wetzell: $10,000 to point out, $10,000 to win – $10,000 – LOST
- Sarvardzhon Hamidov: $20,000 to point out, $20,000 to win – $40,000 – WON
- Shannon Clark: $3,000 to point out, $3,000 to win – Made $6,000 – WON
- Ilara Joanne: $10,000 to point out, $10,000 to win – Made $10,000 – LOST
- Cobey Fehr: $5,000 to point out, $5,000 to win – Made $10,000 – WON
- Daniel Bzdigian: $5,000 to point out, $5,000 to win – Made $5,000 – LOST
