{"id":477787,"date":"2026-02-13T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477787\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:37:10","slug":"pfl-madrid-lineup-finalized-with-van-steenis-vs-edwards-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477787\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL Madrid lineup finalized with Van Steenis vs. Edwards title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lineup for the PFL’s first visit to Spain is set with the middleweight title on the line at the top of the bill.<\/p>\n

The PFL on Friday announced the card for its trip to Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid on March 20 (ESPN app). In the headliner, 185-pound champion Costello van Steenis will put the belt on the line for the first time when he takes on Fabian Edwards.<\/p>\n

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In addition, former Bellator featherweight champ AJ McKee Jr. returns to take on fellow former Bellator contender Adam Borics in the co-feature.<\/p>\n

The prelims are filled with up-and-coming PFL prospects, including van Steenis’ lightweight brother Gino, who takes on Mark Ewen.<\/p>\n

The PFL Madrid lineup includes:<\/p>\n

MAIN CARD (ESPN app, 3 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n

Champ Costello van Steenis vs. Fabian Edwards \u2013 for middleweight title<\/p>\n

Adam Borics vs. AJ McKee Jr.<\/p>\n

Acoidan Duque vs. Alexander Shabliy<\/p>\n

Younes Najid vs. Franco Tenaglia<\/p>\n

Denis Goltsov vs. Linton Vassell<\/p>\n

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN app, noon ET)<\/p>\n

Kevin Cordero vs. Luciano Pereira<\/p>\n

Rafael Calderon vs. Borja Garcia<\/p>\n

Mark Ewen vs. Gino van Steenis<\/p>\n

Reda Abdellaoui vs. Ernesto Schisano<\/p>\n

David Mora vs. Claudio Pacella<\/p>\n

Ignacio Campos vs. Mathys Duragrin<\/p>\n

Jacinta Austin vs. Viktoriia Dudakova<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: PFL Madrid lineup finalized with Van Steenis vs. Edwards title fight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lineup for the PFL’s first visit to Spain is set with the middleweight title on the line…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[243072,243073,64,63,5976,794,21791,786,785,243071,85,30677],"class_list":{"0":"post-477787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-adam-borics","9":"tag-aj-mckee-jr","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-costello-van-steenis","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-fabian-edwards","15":"tag-fighting","16":"tag-mma","17":"tag-palacio-vistalegre","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-van-steenis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477787","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=477787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}