After taking 2020 off to see how thing with the Covid-19 would play out. The Pro Fighter Leauge will be back in 2021.
The 2021 season will start on April 23rd. All 6 of the 2019 Champions are back looking to make another championship run. The fully announced rosters are below including old faces, new faces, and faces you know from other palces.
Featherweight
- Lance “The Party” Palmer (22-3) a 2x PFL Featherweight Champion & 2x WSOF Featherweight Champion
- Bubba “Bad Man” Jenkins (14-4) a Former Brave FC Featherweight Champion & NCAA D-1 wrestling Champion
- Brendan Loughnane (19-3) is on a five-fight win streak
- Tyler Diamond (11-1) with 7 wins by stoppage
- Movlid “The Killer” Khaybulaev (15-0-1, 1 nc) holds the record for the fastest knockout in PFL history at ten seconds
- Jason “The Specimen” Soares (14-0) a former Titan FC Featherweight Champion with 12 finishes & 9 by submission
- Jo “The Korean Falcon” Sungbin (9-1) all of his win by stoppage 5 knockout & 4 submissions
- Sheymon Moraes (11-2) former WSFO title challenger with 5 wins by knockout.
Lightweight
- Natan “Russo” Schulte (20-3-1) a 2x PFL Lightweight champion with 13 wins by stoppage
- Anthony “Showtime” Pettis (24-10) a former WEC & UFC Lightweight Champion with 18 wins by stoppage
- Loik “Jaguar Paw” Radzhabov (13-2-1) 2019 PFL runner up & has 10 wins by stoppage
- “Cassius” Clay Collard (18-8) went 5-1 in Boxing in 2020 & has 13 wins by stoppage
- Johnny “Hollywood” Case (27-7-1) has 19 wins by knockout & 4 by submission
- Akhmed Aliev (19-6) Former Fight Nights Global Lightweight champion with 11 wins by knockout
- Marcin Held (26-7) has 14 wins by submission & is on a 4-fight win streak
- Oliver “The Canadian Ganster” Aubin-Mercier (11-5) a Black Belt in Judo with 8 wins by submission
- Joilton “Perefrino” Lutterback (34-8) is on a 4-fight win streak & has 24 wins by stoppage
- Mikhail “The Dancer” Odintsov (18-2) has 10 wins by stoppage
Welterweight
- Ray “Bradda” Cooper III (20-7-1) 2019 PFL Welterweight Champion with 14 wins by knockout
- Magomed MagoedKerimov (26-5) was the 2018 PFL Welterweight Champion & has an 8-0 record in the PFL
- Rory “Red King” Macdonald (21-6-1) ranked top 15 welterweight in the world & a former Bellator Welterweight Champion
- Nikolai Aleksakhin (24-5) on a 7-fight win streak and has 11 wins by knockout
- David “Bulldawg” Michaud (18-6) a 2019 PFL Welterweight runner-up with 14 wins by stoppage
- Joao “The Brazilian Samurai” Zeferino (24-9) 16 wins by submission & 16 wins in the first round
- Sadibou “The Swedish Denzel” Sy (8-5-2) 2018 PFL Middleweight Semifinalist & Swedish Kickboxing champion
Light-heavyweight
- Emiliano “He-Man” Sordi (22-8) the 2019 PFL Light-heavyweight champion & Argentina’s first MMA champion
- Chris Camozzi (25-14) 8 wins by knockout & 7 by submission
- “Filthy” Tom Lawler (10-7) has 8 wins by stoppage & also works as a professional wrestler
- Jordan Young (11-1) 9 wins by submission
- Smealinho “The Prince” Rama (11-5-1) The first WSOF Heavyweight champion, former MFC Heavyweight champion, 2018 PFL Heavyweight finalist
- Cezar “The Mutant” Ferreira (13-9) A Black Belt in BJJ & a master of Capoeira who won TUF Brazil 1
- Marthin Hamlet (6-1) first PFL fighter from Norway & 4 wins by stoppage
- Jordan “Big Swingin” Johnson (12-2-1) was a 2019 PFL Runner-up & wrestled division 1 at Iowa
- Dab “Dragon” Spohn (18-7) 2018 PFL Quarterfinalist with 7 wins by knockout & 5 by submission
Heavyweight
- Ali Isaev (9-0) 2019 PFL Heavyweight Champion & 2008 Olympian in Freestyle Wrestling
- Fabrico “Vai Cavalo” Werdum (24-9-1) Former UFC Heavyweight Champion & Black Belt in BJJ
- Mohammed “The Motor” Usman (7-1) on a 4-fight win streak, 3 wins by knockout, 2 by submission
- Dennis Goltsov (25-6) 2019 PFL Semifinalist, Comabt Sambo World Champion, 20 wins by stoppage
- Justin “Big Pretty” Willis (8-2) went 4-1 in the UFC & has 4 wins by knockout
- Ante “Walking Trouble” DEjija (17-3) has 6 wins by knockout & 7 by submission
- Hatef “Boss” Moeil (10-4) on a 6-fight win streak & has 8 wins by knockout
- Renan “The Problema” Ferreira (6-2) at 6’8” is the tallest fighter in the PFL and by 5 wins by knockout
- Brandon “Man of War” Sayles (5-1) a U.S. Army Combatives Instrutor on a 3-fight win streak
- Bruno Cappelozza (10-5) a former Jungle Fights Heavyweight & Light-heavyweight Champion with 100% finishing rate
Women’s Lightweight
- Kayla Harrison (8-0) 2019 PFL Women’s Lightweight Champion & 2x Olympic Gold Medalist in Judo, with 6 wins by stoppage
- Genah Fabian (2-1) 2018 Muay Thai World Champion with 100% finishing rate
- Julija Pajic (3-0) first fighter in the PFL from Montenegro, 100% finishing rate and all have come in the first round
- Larissa Pacheco (13-4) 2019 PFL Women’s Lightweight runner-up, 8 wins by submission
- Cindy “Battlecat” Dandois (16-5) on a 4-fight win streak, 13 wins by stoppage, 5 knockouts, 8 submissions
- Mariana “The Razor” Morais (16-10) on a 3-fight win streak, 12 wins by stoppage, 4 knockouts, 8 submissions
