The PFL stays in Las Vegas this week with the beginning of the ladies’s featherweight and heavyweight common seasons.
PFL 2023, Week 2 takes place Friday at The Theater at Virgin Accommodations in Las Vegas. The primary card airs on ESPN2 following prelims on ESPN+.
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In the primary occasion, 2022 ladies’s featherweight season winner Larissa Pacheco (19-4), who upset two-time champion Kayla Harrison in November, takes on former Bellator ladies’s featherweight champ Julia Budd (16-5). Pacheco is a heavy 7-1 favourite on the betting window. Not surprisingly, then, our 11 editors, writers, radio hosts and videographers have Pacheco as considered one of our three unanimous picks on the primary card.
Within the co-feature, 2021 heavyweight season winner Bruno Cappelozza (15-6) meets Matheus Scheffel (17-9) in a rematch. Scheffel outworked Cappelozza for a unanimous choice within the 2022 common season. Cappelozza is a 2-1 favourite and the second unanimous choose at 11-0.
Additionally on the primary card, Aspen Ladd (10-3), a high-profile signing from the UFC, will get her first PFL common season combat when she takes on Olena Kolesnyk (7-5). Ladd is a -450 favourite and our third unanimous choose.
And to open the primary card, Renan Ferreira (9-3) meets Rizvan Kuniev (12-2-1) at heavyweight, and it’s our lone contentious combat from a picks standpoint. Kuniev is a slight favourite at -175, but it surely’s Ferreira with the slimmest potential edge within the picks at 6-5.
In the MMA Junkie consensus picks, Pacheco (76 p.c), Cappelozza (77 p.c), Ladd (85 p.c) and Ferreira (51 p.c) are the alternatives.
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