{"id":464806,"date":"2026-02-07T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464806\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:21:10","slug":"luke-trainer-calls-for-title-shot-after-unbelievable-pfl-dubai-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464806\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Trainer Calls For Title Shot After Unbelievable PFL Dubai Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

English light heavyweight Luke Trainer moved to 10-1 at PFL Dubai<\/a> with a career best victory and performance.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Gent\u2019 faced off against MMA veteran Rob Wilkinson, his toughest and most experienced opponent to date on his PFL debut. Wilkinson had been in with the likes of Israel Adesanya<\/a> when competing in the UFC and since joining PFL he won the PFL light heavyweight tournament in his first year with the organisation in 2022. <\/p>\n

\"RobNEW YORK, NEW YORK \u2013 NOVEMBER 25: Rob Wilkinson celebrates after defeating Omari Akhmedov during the 2022 PFL Championships at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden on November 25, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Cooper Neill\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

After no competition over the best part of 18 months Luke Trainer<\/a> was expected to have his work cut out against the vastly experienced Australian. However, it was not to be as Trainer produced a top display. <\/p>\n

Luke Trainer Via 1st Round Submission<\/p>\n

After a tentative start the Englishman got a hold of Wilkinson\u2019s neck in a slick guillotine<\/a> submission and got the tap in the very first round. Always hunting a finish now with 10 professional victories nine of those have come via inside the distance <\/p>\n

Speaking with Dan Hardy after the bout Trainer staked his claim at a title shot next, \u201cI want the title shot next, Mr Mike Hogan sorry it was a slow start brother I been a year out a little bit rusty. Trust me the next one I\u2019m gonna be fresh, get me in the summer get me on the Madrid card if you want. Let\u2019s flipping go man I want that belt. Or give me someone in the top 3 to smash and then give me the belt man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who do you want to see Luke Trainer face next? and how close do you believe he is to a title shot in the PFL Light heavyweight division?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English light heavyweight Luke Trainer moved to 10-1 at PFL Dubai with a career best victory and performance.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-464806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464806","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=464806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}