Sergio Pettis and Raufeon Stots are placing their friendship apart for battle night time.
The previous Bellator bantamweight titleholders are set to face off on the PFL’s June 27 occasion, which takes place at Wintrust Area in Chicago. Pettis vs. Stots is being billed as a showcase bout and opens the principle card, which options semifinal bouts within the gentle heavyweight and middleweight tournaments.
See Thursday’s announcement beneath.
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Pettis (23-7) seems to be to bounce again from a uncommon dropping streak as he enters his subsequent battle with consecutive defeats by the hands of Kyoji Horiguchi and Patchy Mix. Previous to this stoop, Pettis gained three straight bantamweight championship bouts, taking it from Juan Archuleta after which knocking out Kyoji Horiguchi and outpointing Patricio Pitbull to forestall him from turning into a three-division champion.
He dropped the title to Patchy Combine at Bellator 301 after which misplaced a rematch to Horiguchi at a RIZIN occasion this previous June.
Stots (21-2) has gained two straight since struggling his personal championship loss to Combine. The previous interim titleholder has scored back-to-back wins over Marcos Breno and longtime rival Danny Sabatello.
The June 27 PFL occasion is headlined by Fabian Edwards preventing Josh Silveira in a middleweight semifinal bout, whereas gentle heavyweight rivals Phil Davis and Sullivan Cauley meet within the co-main occasion.
See the up to date lineup beneath, which additionally options heavyweight semifinal bouts on the preliminary portion of the cardboard.
Important Card (ESPN, ESPN+ at 10:30 p.m. ET)
Fabian Edwards vs. Josh Silveira
Phil Davis vs. Sullivan Cauley
Dalton Rosta vs. Aaron Jeffery
Antonio Carlos Junior vs. Simeon Powell
Sergio Pettis vs. Raufeon Stots
Preliminary Card (ESPN+ at 7:30 p.m. ET)
Valentin Moldavsky vs. Alexandr Romanov
Biaggio Ali Walsh vs. Ronnie Gibbs
Oleg Popov vs. Rodrigo Nascimento
Sergey Bilostenniy vs. Karl Williams
