The headliner for
Skilled Fighters League’s first common season occasion of
2024 is now official.
Commercial
Heavyweight opponents Ante Delija
and Valentin
Moldavsky hit their contracted marks with out challenge at
Wednesday’s weigh-ins. Delija tipped the scales at 244 kilos,
whereas Moldavsky checked in at 237.4 kilos.
It wasn’t clean crusing for everybody on the cardboard, nonetheless.
Daniel
James (267) missed weight by one pound for a heavyweight bout
towards Marcelo
Golm (264.4), whereas Shanna
Younger (128.6) got here in 2.6 kilos heavy for a flyweight conflict
towards Kana
Watanabe (125).
PFL 1 takes place on Thursday evening on the Boeing Middle in San
Antonio, Texas. The principle card airs on ESPN2 and ESPN+ starting at
10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, whereas prelims air on ESPN+ at 6:30 p.m.
ET/3:30 p.m. PT.
A 2021 PFL finalist and a 2022 champion, Delija has been victorious
in his final 5 bouts. The Mirko
Filipovic protege is coming off a unanimous determination win over
Maurice
Greene final June, a bout the place he suffered a damaged leg that
knocked him out of the 2023 marketing campaign.
Moldavsky is a former interim title holder in Bellator
MMA. The Fedorteam consultant ended a three-bout winless
streak in his final outing, when he outpointed Steve Mowry
at Bellator 298 this previous August.
PFL 1 Weigh-in Outcomes:
Ante
Delija (244) vs. Valentin
Moldavsky (237.4)
Denis
Goltsov (245.4) vs. Linton
Vassell (240.8)
Liz
Carmouche (126) vs. Juliana
Velasquez (125.2)
Dakota
Ditcheva (125.2) vs. Lisa
Mauldin (125.8)
Marcelo
Golm (264.4) vs. Daniel
James (267)*
Blagoy
Ivanov (257.2) vs. Sergey
Bilostenniy (248.4)
Taila
Santos (126) vs. Ilara
Joanne (126)
Steve
Mowry (257.6) vs. Oleg Popov
(242.2)
Kana
Watanabe (125) vs. Shanna
Younger (128.6)**
Chelsea
Hackett (125.4) vs. Jena Bishop
(125.4)
Lucas
Brennan (145.6) vs. Dimitre Ivy
(146)
Bryce
Meredith (135.8) vs. Ty Johnson
(135.6)
*James missed weight by one pound**Younger missed weight by 2.6 kilos
