PFL heads to Pittsburgh for its third event of 2026 with former middleweight champion Johnny Eblen leading the charge.<\/p>\n
Eblen faces Bryan Battle in the middleweight main event of PFL Pittsburgh, which takes place March 28 at UPMC Events Center. The full lineup for the event was officially announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Coming off of his first-ever loss after starting 16-0 as a pro, Eblen looks to get back on the championship track (and possibly a rematch with Costello van Steenis, who defends his title against Fabian Edwards on March 20) when he takes on Battle, a promising UFC contender derailed by weight-cutting issues. The bout marks Battle\u2019s league debut.<\/p>\n
In the middleweight co-main event, Dalton Rosta fights 2023 PFL light heavyweight tournament winner Impa Kasanganay.<\/p>\n
The main card also features the PFL debut of Ariane Lipski da Silva. The veteran flyweight went 6-8 in the UFC before signing with PFL this past September. She fights Sumiko Inaba.<\/p>\n
Making his comeback on the preliminaries is two-time PFL lightweight tournament champion Natan Schulte. The Brazilian fighter was suspended indefinitely following a 2023 win over Raush Manfio\u2014a close friend of Schulte\u2019s\u2014when the league ruled that neither competitor fought with the intention to win. Schulte has not fought since that incident.<\/p>\n
See the full PFL Pittsburgh lineup below.<\/p>\n
Main Card (ESPN2, 10 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n
Johnny Eblen vs. Bryan Battle<\/p>\n
Dalton Rosta vs. Impa Kasanganay<\/p>\n
Ariane Lipski da Silva vs. Sumiko Inaba<\/p>\n
Alexei Pergande vs. Julio Arce<\/p>\n
Lazaro Dayron vs. Jacob Thrall<\/p>\n
Preliminaries (ESPN App, 7 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n
Bryce Meredith vs. Jack Cartwright<\/p>\n
Natan Schulte vs. Jakub Kaszuba<\/p>\n
Robert Watley vs. Dakota Bush<\/p>\n
Ernesto Rodriguez vs. Masayuki Kikuiri<\/p>\n
Tatiana Postarnakova vs. Elora Dana<\/p>\n
Josh Fremd vs. Jarrah Al Salawi<\/p>\n
Ethan Goss vs. Fred Dupras<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PFL heads to Pittsburgh for its third event of 2026 with former middleweight champion Johnny Eblen leading the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11475,48964,48965,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-117860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-latest-news","tag-pfl","tag-pfl-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}