PFL Africa's Morocco fight card confirmed for October
The Professional Fighters League (PFL) will host its first North African event, PFL Africa: Morocco, on October 10 at the Mohammed V Sports Complex in Casablanca, featuring six semifinal matchups and a heavyweight main event between Senegal’s Abdoulaye Kane and Morocco’s Badr “Dastan” Medkouri, as part of its pan-African tournament format.
Morocco will host the PFL Africa heavyweight main event on October 10 at the Mohammed V Sports Complex in Casablanca. Senegal's Abdoulaye Kane, who has won all five of his fights by stoppage, will face Morocco's Badr "Dastan" Medkouri. Kane is coming off a victory over South Africa's Justin Clarke, while Medkouri will seek to use his hometown crowd advantage in front of his supporters.
The bantamweight semifinal features unbeaten Algerian-Canadian Karim "The Kryptonian" Henniene taking on Nigeria's Raphael Uchegbu. Henniene recently won a first-round submission victory at PFL Africa: Nigeria, while Uchegbu made a strong debut with a unanimous decision win on the same card.
Angola's Shido Boris Esperança will face South Africa's Peace Nguphane in the other bantamweight semifinal. In the welterweight division, Angola's Shido Boris Esperança will battle South Africa's Peace Nguphane, while Guinea-Bissau's Rivaldo Pereira squares off against Nigeria's David Samuel. The lightweight tournament also narrows down to two semifinals, with an all-Nigerian matchup between Patrick Ocheme and Cornel Thompson, as well as Senegal's Demba Seck facing Chad's Hussain Al Kurdi.
Represented across the semifinals are countries including Algeria, Nigeria, Angola, South Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Chad, Liberia, and Morocco.
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