{"id":628897,"date":"2026-04-25T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628897\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:10:08","slug":"a-j-mckee-headlines-pfls-first-trip-to-san-diego-this-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628897\/","title":{"rendered":"A.J. McKee headlines PFL\u2019s first trip to San Diego this June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The PFL is headed to America\u2019s Finest City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Thursday, the PFL announced that the promotion will hold its first event in San Diego on June 27 at Pechanga Arena San Diego. The event will be headlined by a featherweight matchup between A.J. McKee and Salamat Isbulaev. Interestingly, despite the lack of a current featherweight champion, the PFL did not announced that this bout will be for the vacant title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A former Bellator champion, McKee enters the bout on a two-fight winning streak since returning to the 145-pound division, most recently taking a unanimous decision over Adam Borics last month at PFL Madrid. McKee currently holds the No. 2 spot in the PFL promotional rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Isbulaev, meanwhile, is undefeated in MMA, sporting a perfect 10-0 record. The 29-year-old Kazakh fighter made his promotional debut in Febuary, stopping former PFL champion Jesus Pinedo in the first round. Isbulaev is currently No. 6 in the PFL rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The PFL has yet to announce any other fights for PFL San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PFL is headed to America\u2019s Finest City. On Thursday, the PFL announced that the promotion will hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,5963,7613,85],"class_list":["post-628897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-pfl","tag-pfl-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628897","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=628897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}