{"id":313401,"date":"2026-05-13T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313401\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:06:17","slug":"pfl-books-ariane-lipski-da-silvas-return-fight-for-san-diego-card-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313401\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL books Ariane Lipski da Silva\u2019s return fight for San Diego card in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">PFL San Diego will feature Ariane Lipski da Silva\u2019s second appearance in the cage, facing California\u2019s own Jena Bishop at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego on June 27. PFL officials confirmed the preliminary card fight to MMA Fighting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">PFL San Diego will be headlined by a featherweight showdown between AJ McKee Jr. and undefeated prospect Salamat Isbulaev, with flyweights Liz Carmouche and Viviane Araujo battling in the co-main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lipski (18-11) was victorious in her PFL debut in March, defeating Sumiko Inaba via decision nearly a year after parting ways with the UFC. The former KSW flyweight champion went 6-8 in the octagon with bonus-winning finishes over Casey O\u2019Neill and Luana Carolina, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/pfl\/478277\/ariane-lipski-da-silva-contemplated-retirement-after-ufc-release-but-fell-in-love-again-with-fighting-for-pfl-move\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was close to retiring from the sport<\/a> after her UFC release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI considered retiring because I had big plans, I really believed I could achieve my goals in the UFC,\u201d da Silva told MMA Fighting earlier this year. \u201cFor six years that I was in the UFC, I gave everything I had to make that happen. It didn\u2019t, and I was like, \u2018Okay, so what am I going to do? Am I going to stop now, have a child?\u2019\u2014 because I do want our family to grow. For a moment I thought about stopping, but I realized I still have more to show, you know? I still have more to show inside the cage, and I believe my career wasn\u2019t meant to end like that. Then the opportunity to debut in the PFL came, and it worked out, and now we\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bishop (10-3) finished Borena Tsertsvadze in her most recent fight in April, rebounding from a 2025 PFL season final loss to Liz Carmouche in August. A jiu-jitsu black belt under JW Wright with medals in important tournaments in the grappling circuit, Bishop combined for 6-0 in Bellator and LFA before going 4-3 under the PFL banner, scoring six of her 10 pro MMA wins via submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PFL San Diego will feature Ariane Lipski da Silva\u2019s second appearance in the cage, facing California\u2019s own Jena&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1979,122248,122249,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-313401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-news","tag-pfl","tag-pfl-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}