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2025 PFL World Tournament 5 live results, highlights

2025 PFL World Tournament 5 live results, highlights

Yahoo12-06-2025

PFL begins second-round action Thursday with 2025 PFL World Tournament 5, and you can keep up with live results and highlights throughout the event beginning at 8:30 p.m. ET.
2025 PFL World Tournament 5 takes place at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., and broadcasts live on ESPN and ESPN+. The event features semifinal tournament bouts in the featherweight and welterweight division.
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In the main event, former Bellator welterweight champion Jason Jackson (19-5) takes on undefeated Thad Jean (9-0). In the co-feature, 2023 PFL season winner Jesus Pinedo (24-6-1) meets the man he defeated in the championship bout, Gabriel Braga (16-2), for what will be their third meeting.
2025 PFL World Tournament 5 results
MAIN CARD (ESPN, ESPN+, 11 p.m. ET)
Jason Jackson vs. Thad Jean
Jesus Pinedo vs. Gabriel Braga
Logan Storley vs. Masayuki Kikuiri
Movlid Khaybulaev vs. Taekyun Kim
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 8:30 p.m. ET)
Jeremy Kennedy vs. Adam Borics
Magomed Umalatov vs. Anthony Ivy
Joseph Luciano vs. Sarek Shields
Mukhamed Berkhamov vs. Kendly St. Louis
Alexi Pergande vs. Mike Bardsley
Jason Danner vs. Nathan Gilmore
2025 PFL World Tournament 5 weigh-in gallery
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: 2025 PFL World Tournament 5 live results, highlights

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