PFL 6 (2025)
Professional Fighters League MMA event in 2025
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The PFL 6 mixed martial arts event for the 2025 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on June 20, 2025, at Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas, United States. This event marked the semifinals of the single-elimination tournament format in the Lightweight, Bantamweight and Women's Flyweight divisions.[1][2][3]
| PFL 6 | ||||
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The poster for PFL 6 | ||||
| Promotion | Professional Fighters League | |||
| Date | June 20, 2025 | |||
| Venue | Intrust Bank Arena | |||
| City | Wichita, Kansas, United States | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Background
The event marked the promotion's debut in Wichita and the state of Kansas.[4]
The event featured the semifinals of 2025 PFL World Tournament in a women's flyweight, bantamweight and lightweight divisions.[5]
Jay-Jay Wilson was scheduled to face 2024 PFL lightweight winner Gadzhi Rabadanov in a lightweight semifinal bout at the main event. However, Wilson withdrew from the bout due to suffering a broken jaw.[6] On May 28, the promotion announced that Kevin Lee signed with PFL and replaced Wilson against Rabadanov instead.[7]
Results
| Main card (ESPN / ESPN+) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Lightweight | Gadzhi Rabadanov | def. | Kevin Lee | TKO (punches) | 1 | 2:37 | [a] |
| Women's Flyweight | Liz Carmouche | def. | Elora Dana | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [b] |
| Lightweight | Archie Colgan | def. | Mansour Barnaoui | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [c] |
| Bantamweight | Marcirley Alves | def. | Jake Hadley | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [d] |
| Lightweight | Alfie Davis | def. | Brent Primus | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [e] |
| Bantamweight | Justin Wetzell | def. | Mando Gutierrez | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [f] |
| Preliminary card (ESPN+) | |||||||
| Women's Flyweight | Jena Bishop | def. | Ekaterina Shakalova | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 2 | 2:07 | [g] |
| Bantamweight | Magomed Magomedov | def. | Sarvarjon Khamidov | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [h] |
| Lightweight | Vinicius Sacchelli Cenci | def. | Antonio Caruso | Submission (triangle choke) | 1 | 1:43 | |
| Lightweight | Darragh Kelly | def. | Mike Hamel | Submission (face crank) | 3 | 3:09 | |
| Women's Flyweight | Ilra Joanne | def. | Saray Orozco | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Welterweight | Nick Meck | def. | Alan Domínguez | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 4:10 | |
- 2025 PFL Lightweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL Women's Flyweight Tournament Semifinal.
- Bellator Lightweight title eliminator.
- 2025 PFL Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL Lightweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL Women's Flyweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL Bantamweight Tournament Alternate bout.
Tournament brackets
2025 PFL Lightweight Tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
 Vinicius Sacchelli Cenci[a] | 3 | |||||||||
 Brent Primus | SUB | |||||||||
| Brent Primus | 3 | |||||||||
 Alfie Davis | UD | |||||||||
| Clay Collard | 3 | |||||||||
| Alfie Davis | UD | |||||||||
| Alfie Davis | ||||||||||
 Gadzhi Rabadanov | ||||||||||
| Gadzhi Rabadanov | KO | |||||||||
 Marc Diakiese | 1 | |||||||||
| Gadzhi Rabadanov | TKO | |||||||||
| Kevin Lee[b] | 1 | |||||||||
 Jay-Jay Wilson | TKO | |||||||||
 Mads Burnell | 3 | |||||||||
- Alexandr Shabliy withdrew from the tournament due to undisclosed reasons and was replaced by Vinicius Sacchelli Cenci.
2025 PFL Bantamweight Tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Leandro Higo | 3 | |||||||||
| Marcirley Alves[a] | SD | |||||||||
| Marcirley Alves | UD | |||||||||
| Jake Hadley | 3 | |||||||||
| Jake Hadley | SUB | |||||||||
| Matheus Mattos[b] | 3 | |||||||||
| Marcirley Alves | ||||||||||
| Justin Wetzell | ||||||||||
| Kasum Kasumov | 3 | |||||||||
| Justin Wetzell[c] | UD | |||||||||
| Justin Wetzell | UD | |||||||||
 Mando Gutierrez | 3 | |||||||||
 Francesco Nuzzi | 1 | |||||||||
| Mando Gutierrez[d] | SUB | |||||||||
- Magomed Magomedov withdrew from the tournament due to injury and was replaced by Josh Rettinghouse. In turn, Rettinghouse was not medically cleared and replaced by Marcirley Alves
- Sarvarjon Khamidov withdrew from the tournament due to visa issues and was replaced by Matheus Mattos.
- Ciaran Clarke withdrew from the tournament due to injury and was replaced by Justin Wetzell.
- Ali Taleb and Zebenzui Ruiz withdrew from the tournament due to visa issues and were replaced by Francesco Nuzzi and Mando Gutierrez.
2025 PFL Women's Flyweight Tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Juliana Velasquez | 1 | |||||||||
 Ekaterina Shakalova[a] | SUB | |||||||||
| Ekaterina Shakalova | 2 | |||||||||
| Jena Bishop | SUB | |||||||||
 Kana Watanabe | 3 | |||||||||
| Jena Bishop | UD | |||||||||
| Jena Bishop | ||||||||||
| Liz Carmouche | ||||||||||
| Liz Carmouche | TKO | |||||||||
| Ilara Joanne | 1 | |||||||||
| Liz Carmouche | UD | |||||||||
| Elona Dana | 3 | |||||||||
| Elora Dana | SUB | |||||||||
| Diana Avsaragova | 1 | |||||||||
- Taila Santos withdrew from the tournament and was replaced by Ekaterina Shakalova.
