{"id":25526,"date":"2025-08-16T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/davis-shocks-rabadanov-calls-for-pfl-lightweight-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:24:00","slug":"davis-shocks-rabadanov-calls-for-pfl-lightweight-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/davis-shocks-rabadanov-calls-for-pfl-lightweight-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Shocks Rabadanov, Calls for PFL Lightweight Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alfie Davis Shocks and Conquers the PFL Lightweight World Tournament<\/h2>\n\nBritish lightweight fighter Alfie Davis starred in a stunning victory by winning the 2025 PFL Lightweight World Tournament, defeating Gadzhi Rabadanov last Friday.\n\nDavis (20-5-1) defeated Rabadanov (26-5-2) by unanimous decision of the judges, with scores of 48-47. This fight, in the 155-pound category, was the main event of the PFL World Tournament held at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I want the winner of the fight between Hughes and Nurmagomedov, and then I want to put that belt in the [World Tournament 2026] next year.<\/p><cite>Alfie Davis<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAfter his triumph, 22-year-old Davis expressed his desire to face the winner of the PFL lightweight title fight, scheduled for October, between Usman Nurmagomedov and Paul Hughes.\n\n\n<p>The current PFL format separates the World Tournament from the lightweight championship, meaning Davis won the tournament and the $500,000 prize, but is not considered the promotion&#8217;s champion nor is guaranteed a title shot. Davis seeks not only to fight for the belt, but also to bring it to the tournament, as he considers the current structure confusing.<\/p>\n\n\nDavis&#8217; performance on Friday was outstanding, given that Rabadanov was the favorite to win. Davis successfully defended Rabadanov&#8217;s takedowns, keeping the fight standing at crucial moments. Furthermore, he prevented the Russian from causing damage in the top position whenever he managed to take him down.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Liz Carmouche Crowned Champion in Women&#8217;s Flyweight<\/h2>\n\n\nIn the co-main event, 41-year-old Liz Carmouche (25-8) claimed her first PFL title by knocking out Jena Bishop (9-3) with a left hook in the third round. Carmouche, a former Bellator MMA champion, reached the playoffs of the 2024 PFL season, where she was defeated by Taila Santos.\n\nCarmouche is the most prominent figure in PFL&#8217;s 125-pound roster who has yet to fight rising star Dakota Ditcheva (15-0). Ditcheva won the 2024 PFL tournament and has a 1-0 record this year, after defeating Sumiko Inaba in July. Ditcheva signed a contract extension with PFL before her victory over Inaba, and Carmouche used her post-fight interview to request a fight between the two. Currently, Ditcheva is recovering from a hand injury sustained in her last fight.\n\n<h2>Marcirley Alves Wins in the Bantamweight Final<\/h2>\n\nIn a third final of the PFL World Tournament, Marcirley Alves (15-4) defeated Justin Wetzell (12-3) by unanimous decision in the bantamweight category.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfie Davis Shocks and Conquers the PFL Lightweight World Tournament British lightweight fighter Alfie Davis starred in a stunning victory by winning the 2025 PFL Lightweight World Tournament, defeating Gadzhi Rabadanov last Friday. Davis (20-5-1) defeated Rabadanov (26-5-2) by unanimous decision of the judges, with scores of 48-47. This fight, in the 155-pound category, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7356,478,479,7365],"class_list":{"0":"post-25526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alfie-davis","9":"tag-mma","10":"tag-pfl","11":"tag-world-tournament"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}