{"id":922248,"date":"2026-10-09T20:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922248\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:44:15","slug":"pfl-africa-weigh-ins-results-fighter-face-offs-for-historic-mma-fight-card-in-morocco-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922248\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL Africa weigh ins results, fighter face offs for historic MMA fight card in Morocco (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Professional Fighters League (PFL) is less than 24 hours in front of its debut in Morocco, part of a broader PFL Africa initiative that develops and fosters mixed martial arts (MMA) in a largely untapped region. While Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/1\/25\/24050313\/heros-welcome-south-africa-erupts-ufc-champ-dricus-du-plessis-returns-home-wild-scene-mma-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ignore pleas from its top African stars<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/19\/24451998\/kamaru-usman-teases-dricus-du-plessis-super-fight-in-africa-vs-africa-showdown-ufc-espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">champions of African descent<\/a>, PFL is charging forward with some of the most recognizable names on the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That includes CrossFit Games athlete and seven-time African Sambo Champion Sanaa Mandar, who rematches 21-year-old Nigerian phenom Jane Osigwe as part of the PFL Morocco fight card on Sat. night (Oct. 10, 2026) from inside Mohammad V Sports Complex in Casablanca. The entire 11-bout lineup, headlined by the titanic tilt between heavyweight hurters Abdoulaye Kane and Badr Medkouri, will stream exclusively on the <a href=\"https:\/\/starzplay.com\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starzplay<\/a> network at 1 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Elsewhere on the card, finalists will be determined in the bantamweight, lightweight, and welterweight divisions, with winners moving on to compete for $100,000 in prize money and the right to be called best in class later this year. All 22 fighters came face-to-face earlier today in Casablanca for the official PFL Africa: \u201cMorocco\u201d weigh ins, embedded above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Complete weigh ins text results for PFL Morocco below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Heavyweight Main Event: Abdoulaye Kane (265.2) vs. Badr Medkouri (226.8)<br \/>Featherweight: Taha Bendaoud (145) vs. Yanis Ghemmouri (146)<br \/>Welterweight Semifinal: Shido Boris Esperan\u00e7a (172) vs. Peace Nguphane (168.8)<br \/>Lightweight Semifinal: Patrick Ocheme (155) vs. Cornel Thompson (155.2)<br \/>Welterweight Semifinal: Rivaldo Pereira (169.2) vs. David Samuel (169.8)<\/p>\n<p>PFL Morocco Prelims Card:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Welterweight: Yabna N\u2019Tchal\u00e1 (169.6) vs. Mouhamed Ba (169.2)<br \/>Bantamweight: Reda Abdellaoui (135.6) vs. Salim Mhamdi (135)<br \/>Bantamweight Semifinal: Dwight Joseph (135.6) vs. Boule Godogo (135)<br \/>Lightweight Semifinal: Demba Seck (155.2) vs. Hussain Al Kurdi (156)<br \/>Catchweight (132 pounds): Jane Osigwe (132.2) vs. Sanaa Mandar (132.8)<br \/>Lightweight: Abderrahman Errachidy (154.6) vs. Oussama El Idrissi (155.8)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more PFL news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/professional-fighters-league-pfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professional Fighters League (PFL) is less than 24 hours in front of its debut in Morocco, part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,8081,85],"class_list":["post-922248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922248","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=922248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}