Ballymena’s Rhys McKee has signed a multi-fight contract with the Professional Fighters League (PFL) and will make his debut for the organisation on 16 April at Belfast’s SSE Arena.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old welterweight, whose record stands at 14 wins – all by stoppage – with seven defeats and one draw, was released by the UFC for the second time in his career following defeat by Axel Sola last September.<\/p>\n
McKee will make his PFL bow on the undercard of Paul Hughes v Jay Jay Wilson next month which will be his first Belfast outing since a 2022 victory over Justin Burlinson at Cage Warriors.<\/p>\n
His opponent will be confirmed in the coming days and ‘Skeletor’ says he is “excited” to start a new chapter in his career<\/p>\n
“It feels good, signing for PFL is a big move for me,” McKee told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n
“It was very important that the next step in my career was one that excited me and this has more than excited me.<\/p>\n
“The fact that it is in Belfast and I get to step out into that arena, which I thought I might not have had the opportunity to again in my career, is very important.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballymena’s Rhys McKee has signed a multi-fight contract with the Professional Fighters League (PFL) and will make his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-555645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555645","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=555645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}