{"id":166269,"date":"2025-09-24T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166269\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:36:04","slug":"cris-cyborg-vadim-nemkov-title-fights-announced-for-pfl-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166269\/","title":{"rendered":"Cris Cyborg, Vadim Nemkov title fights announced for PFL Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cris Cyborg is back in MMA action this December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The PFL <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMartinPFL\/status\/1970837275186508237\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Wednesday that Cyborg (28-2) is set to fight Sara Collins (6-0) in a featherweight championship bout at LDLC Arena in Lyon, France, on Dec. 13. This marks a return of sorts for Cyborg, who fought for PFL less than a year ago, but has competed in three boxing matches in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That bout serves as the Dec. 13 co-main event, with Vadim Nemkov (19-2) battling Renan Ferreira (13-4) for a heavyweight title in the main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cyborg\u2019s last outing in the SmartCage saw her win a thrilling five-round decision over Larissa Pacheco to capture a Superfight Championship. It was the eighth straight win for the women\u2019s MMA pioneer, who then went on to score three straight knockouts in boxing competition, including two victories in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The less experienced Collins earned her title shot after submitting top contender Leah McCourt inside of a round in September 2024. She also holds notable wins over Sinead Kavanagh and Pam Sorenson in the Bellator cage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nemkov seeks heavyweight gold after previously conquering the Bellator light heavyweight division. He is 2-0 since moving up a division, with wins over Timothy Johnson and Bruno Cappelozza. On the other side, Ferreira looks to bounce back after a loss to Francis Ngannou this past October. Ferreira won the 2024 PFL heavyweight tournament to set up that opportunity, but fell to Ngannou\u2019s strikes inside of a round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">PFL Lyon will also feature the finals of the PFL Europe lightweight and bantamweight tournaments.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cris Cyborg is back in MMA action this December. The PFL announced Wednesday that Cyborg (28-2) is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,1863,8417,82],"class_list":["post-166269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-pfl","tag-pfl-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}