A monumental moment for South African and African MMA is set for today, Saturday, July 19th at GrandWest Arena, in Goodwood, with the inaugural Professional Fighters League (PFL) Africa. With the official weigh-ins done and dusted, the stage is set for electrifying cage action.<\/p>\n
The event will be headlined by South Africa’s own Nkosi Ndebele (8-3), who faces Egypt’s Mahmoud Atef (5-2) in a bantamweight clash. Five other South Africans are featured on the card with Shannon Van Tonder (7-2) taking on Angola’s Boule Godogo (3-0) in the bantamweight division. In the heavyweight division, Justin Clarke (2-0) will face Nigeria’s Jashell Ticha Awa. Frans Mlambo (15-6) is set to fight Zimbabwe’s Simbarashe “The Hawk” Hokonya (5-0) in another bantamweight bout. In other action, Asiashu Tshitambe (6-4-0) will be up against Canada’s Karim Henniene (4-0-0) and, in a women’s strawweight bout, Ceileigh Niedermayr (3-2) goes up against Nigeria’s Juliet Ukah (6-0).<\/p>\n
The PFL Africa card precedes the PFL Champions Series: Road to Dubai, which features a stacked lineup. The main event will see Johnny Eblen (16-0) defend his PFL Middleweight World Championship against Costello van Steenis (16-3). In the co-main event, Dakota Ditcheva (14-0) defends her Women’s Flyweight title against Sumiko Inaba (8-1).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The full PFL Champions Series card:\u00a0<\/p>\n
PFL Middleweight World Championship: Johnny Eblen vs. Costello van Steenis\u00a0<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s Flyweight: Dakota Ditcheva vs. Sumiko Inaba\u00a0<\/p>\n
Featherweight bout: AJ McKee vs. Akhmed Magomedov\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lightweight bout: Artur Zaynukov vs. Takeshi Izumi\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heavyweight Bout: Corey Anderson vs. Denis Goltsov\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The full PFL Africa card features:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bantamweight: Nkosi Ndebele vs. Mahmoud Atef\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heavyweight: Maxwell Djantou Nana vs. Mickael Groguhe\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bantamweight: Shannon van Tonder vs. Boule Godogo\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heavyweight: Jashell Ticha Awa vs. Justin Clarke\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bantamweight: Asiashu Tshitamba vs. Karim Henniene\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heavyweight: Abdoulaye Kane vs. Joffie Houlton\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bantamweight: Simbarashe Hokonya vs. Frans Mlambo\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heavyweight: Abraham Bably vs. Paul-Emmanuel Gnaze\u00a0<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s Strawweight Bout: Juliet Ukah vs. Ceileigh Niedermayr\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A monumental moment for South African and African MMA is set for today, Saturday, July 19th at GrandWest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[5987,5989,5954,5978,5979,5980,5986,5967,64,63,5971,5975,5956,5958,5982,5976,5966,5983,5951,5946,786,5965,5952,5955,5972,5988,5957,5970,5960,5961,5984,5985,785,5950,5949,5959,5990,5963,5947,5974,5968,5948,5962,5964,1183,5953,85,5969,5981,5973,5977],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-abdoulaye-kane","tag-abraham-bably","tag-african-mma","tag-aj-mckee","tag-akhmed-magomedov","tag-artur-zaynukov","tag-asiashu-tshitamba","tag-asiashu-tshitambe","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boule-godogo","tag-bout","tag-cape-town","tag-ceileigh-niedermayr","tag-corey-anderson","tag-costello-van-steenis","tag-dakota-ditcheva","tag-denis-goltsov","tag-dubai","tag-event","tag-fighting","tag-frans-mlambo","tag-grandwest","tag-grandwest-arena","tag-jashell-ticha-awa","tag-joffie-houlton","tag-johnny-eblen","tag-juliet-ukah","tag-justin-clarke","tag-karim-henniene","tag-maxwell-djantou-nana","tag-mickael-groguhe","tag-mma","tag-moment","tag-nkosi-ndebele","tag-nkosi-ndebele-vs-mahmoud-atef","tag-paul-emmanuel-gnaze","tag-pfl","tag-pfl-africa","tag-pfl-champions-series-road","tag-pfl-middleweight-world-championship","tag-place","tag-shannon-van-tonder","tag-simbarashe-hokonya","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african","tag-sports","tag-sumiko-inaba","tag-takeshi-izumi","tag-womens-strawweight","tag-womens-strawweight-bout-juliet-ukah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}