PFL 7 (2025)
| PFL 7 | ||||
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| Promotion | Professional Fighters League | |||
| Date | June 27, 2025 | |||
| Venue | Wintrust Arena | |||
| City | Chicago, Illinois, United States | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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The PFL 7 mixed martial arts event for the 2025 season of the Professional Fighters League will be hold on June 27, 2025, at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois, United States. This event will mark the semifinals of the single-elimination tournament format in the Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight and Middleweight divisions.[1][2][3]
Background
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The event will mark the promotion's third visit to Chicago and first since PFL 3 (2024) in April 2024.[4]
The event will be feature the semifinals of 2025 PFL World Tournament in a middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions.[5]
A bantamweight bout between former Bellator Bantamweight World Champion Sergio Pettis and former interim champion Raufeon Stots is scheduled to take place at this event.[6] The pairing was previously scheduled to meet for the bantamweight title and the Grand Prix at Bellator 279 in April 2022, but Pettis was forced to pull out due to sustaining an injury that required surgery.[7]
Fight card
[edit]| Main card (ESPN / ESPN+) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Middleweight | Fabian Edwards | vs. | Josh Silveira | [a] | |||
| Light Heavyweight | Phil Davis | vs. | Sullivan Cauley | [b] | |||
| Middleweight | Dalton Rosta | vs. | Aaron Jeffrey | [c] | |||
| Light Heavyweight | Antônio Carlos Júnior | vs. | Simeon Powell | [d] | |||
| Bantamweight | Sergio Pettis | vs. | Raufeon Stots | ||||
| Preliminary card (ESPN+) | |||||||
| Heavyweight | Valentin Moldavsky | vs. | Alexander Romanov | [e] | |||
| Lightweight | Baggio Ali Walsh | vs. | Ronnie Gibbs | ||||
| Heavyweight | Oleg Popov | vs | Rodrigo Nascimento | [f] | |||
| Heavyweight | Sergey Bilostenniy | vs. | Karl Williams | [g] | |||
| Light Heavyweight | Karl Albrektsson | vs. | Rafael Xavier | [h] | |||
| Middleweight | Jordan Newman | vs. | Khalid Murtazaliev | [i] | |||
- ^ 2025 PFL Middleweight Tournament Semifinal.
- ^ 2025 PFL Light Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal.
- ^ 2025 PFL Middleweight Tournament Semifinal.
- ^ 2025 PFL Light Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal.
- ^ 2025 PFL Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal.
- ^ 2025 PFL Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal.
- ^ 2025 PFL Heavyweight Tournament Alternate bout.
- ^ 2025 PFL Light Heavyweight Tournament Alternate bout.
- ^ 2025 PFL Middleweight Tournament Alternate bout.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "PFL Announces Dates And Locations For 2025 World Tournament Semifinals". FightBook MMA. 2025-03-11. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
- ^ Sherdog.com. "Locations Announced for PFL Tournament Semifinals in June". Sherdog. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
- ^ Leonard, Harvey (2025-03-19). "PFL Reveals Locations For 2025 World Tournament Semifinals". MMA News | UFC News Since 2002. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
- ^ Gonzalez, Gabriel (2025-03-11). "PFL Announces Semifinal Dates in Nashville, Wichita, and Chicago". Cageside Press. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
- ^ Sherdog.com. "PFL Announces Full Chicago Lineup in June; Adds Sergio Pettis-Raufeon Stots". Sherdog. Retrieved 2025-05-15.
- ^ Guillen, Adam (2025-05-15). "Former teammates Sergio Pettis and Raufeon Stots collide at PFL 7 on June 27 in Chicago". MMAmania.com. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ "Bellator 279 card: Sergio Pettis out of Bantamweight World Grand Prix with injury, Juan Archuleta steps in". CBSSports.com. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ "2025 PFL World Tournament 7: Semifinals". Professional Fighters League. Retrieved 2025-06-02.