{"id":327163,"date":"2025-12-05T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327163\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:32:08","slug":"amru-magomedov-khabib-nurmagomedovs-latest-protege-set-for-pfl-debut-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327163\/","title":{"rendered":"Amru Magomedov, Khabib Nurmagomedov\u2019s latest prot\u00e9g\u00e9, set for PFL debut in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Amru Magomedov, the former UAE Warriors lightweight champion, is set to make his PFL debut at the upcoming card in Dubai on Feb. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A prot\u00e9g\u00e9 training under former UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, Magomedov was one of the top prospects available when the PFL snatched him up recently and signed the 26-year-old fighter to a deal. Now Magomedov is set to meet Kolton Englund at 155 pounds at the PFL Dubai card in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Magomedov is joining his teammate and training partner Usman Nurmagomedov, who headlines the card in the main event as he defends his PFL lightweight title against 2025 tournament champion Alfie Davis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In nine professional fights, Magomedov has only gone to decision twice with a blistering combination of knockouts and submissions decorating the rest of his resume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Most recently, Magomedov dispatched UFC veteran Alex da Silva with a brutal body kick that led to a first round finish for the Russian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now Magomedov looks to make waves in the PFL with Englund attempting to pull off the upset as he joins the promotion on a six-fight win streak of his own after coming up short from signing with the UFC after an appearance on The Contender Series in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Magomedov vs. Englund is the latest addition to the PFL Dubai card with the event also featuring the return of Dakota Ditcheva in a fight against Bellator veteran Denise Kielholz while Ramazan Kuramagomedov meets Shamil Musaev in the co-main event to crown the first PFL welterweight champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amru Magomedov, the former UAE Warriors lightweight champion, is set to make his PFL debut at the upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,1863,8417,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-327163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327163","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=327163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}