Usman Nurmagomedov and Paul Hughes clashed in one of the best fights of the year in 2025, and now, they\u2019ll do it all over again.<\/p>\n
The lightweights are set to meet in the main event when the PFL returns to Dubai for a champions series card on Friday, Oct. 3 at the Coca-Cola Arena.<\/p>\n
Back in January, Nurmagomedov remained undefeated with a razor-close majority decision win in a back-and-forth battle against Hughes. Ever since that night, Hughes has been calling for a rematch but first he had to dispatch Bruno Miranda in May with a blistering 42-second knockout.<\/p>\n
Now Hughes is getting his second opportunity with the rematch booked against Nurmagomedov in October.<\/p>\n
In addition to the lightweight title fight, Corey Anderson returns to action to defend his PFL light heavyweight championship in a rematch against 2024 PFL light heavyweight tournament champion Dovlet Yagshimuradov.<\/p>\n
Their first encounter happened back in 2021 during the Bellator Light Heavyweight Grand Prix with Anderson scoring a third-round TKO victory. Yagshimuradov gets his rematch after rattling off seven wins in a row including a knockout over Impa Kasanganay to claim the PFL tournament title in 2024.<\/p>\n
The PFL card in Dubai also features the previously reported bout between Artem Lobov and Zubaira Tukhugov as the longtime rivals finally look to settle their business in the cage.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the full card as it currently stands for PFL Dubai in October:<\/p>\n
MAIN EVENT: Usman Nurmagomedov vs. Paul Hughes<\/p>\n
Corey Anderson vs. Dovlet Yagshimuradov<\/p>\n
Pouya Rahmani vs. Slim Trabelsi<\/p>\n
Zubaira Tukhugov vs. Artem Lobov<\/p>\n
Omar El Dafrawy vs. Florim Zendeli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usman Nurmagomedov and Paul Hughes clashed in one of the best fights of the year in 2025, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,5963,7613,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-65105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-pfl","14":"tag-pfl-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65105","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=65105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}