How to Watch 2023 PFL 3

Lightweights, welterweights and two heavyweight stragglers will take their swings when the 2023 Professional Fighters League regular season moves forward with PFL 3 on Friday at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. Defending lightweight champion Olivier Aubin-Mercier draws the headlining assignment opposite big-ticket free agent Shane Burgos, while Clay Collard and 20-year-old promotional newcomer Yamato Nishikawa occupy the co-main event at 155 pounds.

PFL 3 “Aubin-Mercier vs. Burgos”— which airs live on ESPN and streams to ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT—also features a heavyweight scrap pitting Denis Goltsov against Cezar Ferreira and a pair of welterweight tilts, as Carlos Leal Miranda faces David Zawada and Magomed Umalatov meets Dilano Taylor. Postliminary festivities start at 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. ET, with defending welterweight champion Sadibou Sy serving as the anchor in a showdown with Jarrah Al-Silawi at 170 pounds.

A closer look at the PFL 3 particulars:

THE LINEUP

155: Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Shane Burgos
155: Clay Collard vs. Yamato Nishikawa
265: Denis Goltsov vs. Cezar Ferreira
170: Carlos Leal Miranda vs. David Zawada
170: Magomed Umalatov vs. Dilano Taylor
170: Sadibou Sy vs. Jarrah Al-Silawi
170: Magomed Magomedkerimov vs. Ben Egli
155: Natan Schulte vs. Steven Ray
155: Raush Manfio vs. Alex Martinez
170: Shane Mitchell vs. Nayib Lopez Miranda
155: Bruno Miranda vs. Ahmed Amir
170: Zach Juusola vs. Brandon Jenkins

THE RUNDOWN
• Preview
• By The Numbers: Aubin-Mercier vs. Burgos
• Scouting Report: Olivier Aubin-Mercier
• Scouting Report: Shane Burgos
• 5 Things You Might Not Know About Natan Schulte

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