2025 PFL World Tournament 2 weigh-in results: Yet another new main event in Orlando #PFLWorldTournament

2025 PFL World Tournament 2 weigh-in results: Yet another new main event in Orlando #PFLWorldTournament

It’s been an interesting week at Universal Studios on Florida, where members of the PFL brass must be wondering if Mickey Mouse is trying to gum up the works of their operation. The PFL’s second event of the season now has its third different main event this week after Josh Rettinghouse (20-5) wasn’t medically cleared for his bantamweight fight against Leandro Higo (23-6). Rettinghouse had been a replacement for Magomed Magomedov. Instead, Higo …

Third time’s a charm? PFL 2 undergoes emergency main event change after short-notice replacement unfit to fill in

Bellator MMA Third time’s a charm? The second Professional Fighters League (PFL) event of its 2025 World Tournament (see final card here) has gone through yet another change. Earlier this week, the initial main event between former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) contender, Taila Santos, versus Juliana Velasquez was scrapped after Santos was forced out of the event, prompting the promotion to peg Ekaterina Shakalova as a replacement. That f…

PFL 2 gets last minute new main event after fighter not cleared to compete at weigh-ins

The PFL 2 main event has undergone yet another change. Late replacement Josh Rettinghouse was not cleared to compete in his fight against Leandro Higo, so he’s been replaced by alternate Marcirley Alves, who was originally scheduled as an alternate on the card. The news was announced by PFL officials on Thursday during the weigh-ins ahead of Friday’s event. Rettinghouse being pulled from the card leads to a third new main event for the PFL 2 car…

PFL 2 Loses Main Event Fighter, Leandro Higo Now Faces Marcirley Alves

Last week, it was Taila Santos dropping out of the PFL Tournament, and Magomed Umalatov missing weight, taking him out of a fight with Logan Storley. At this week’s PFL 2 in Orlando, Florida, it’s main event bantamweight Josh Rettinghouse who is off the card. Rettinghouse’s removal from the card followed Thursday’s official weigh-in, a result of the fighter being denied medical clearance to compete. As it happens, his involvement in the fight wa…