2022 PFL World Championships live results and analysis

1 year ago 38

The PFL volition crown play champions successful six value classes connected Friday nighttime wrong Hulu Theater astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York.

Undefeated two-time champion Kayla Harrison volition spell for a 3rd play title successful the main event, facing Larissa Pacheco, who scored first-round knockouts successful each 3 of her 2022 bouts.

Follow on each done the nighttime arsenic ESPN recaps each of the action.

Fight successful progress:

Women's flyweight: Dakota Ditcheva vs. Katherine Corogenes

PFL Finals results

Men's lightweight (amateur): Biaggio Ali Walsh def. Tom Graesser by first-round KO

Ali Walsh, the grandson of "The Greatest," Muhammad Ali, kicked disconnected the evening successful a beauteous large way, blasting Graesser with consecutive punch aft consecutive punch, bloodying him and past dropping him for the decorativeness conscionable 45 seconds in.

Ali Walsh was engaged from the get-go, throwing 25 punches and kicks successful the abbreviated combat and landing 20. He looked crisp for an amateur who is conscionable 1-1.

Along with his overmatched opponent, Ali Walsh had to woody with the unit of being the grandson of a legend. "The pressure, it's going to beryllium there," helium said. "But I speech to myself a lot, I meditate, I visualize. There's definite things I bash to woody with that pressure. It's ever going to beryllium there, and I deliberation I handled it beauteous well."