PFL Europe 3 (2025)
Professional Fighters League mixed martial arts event in 2025
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PFL Europe 3: Nantes 2025 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Professional Fighters League that took place on September 26, 2025, at Zénith Nantes Métropole in Nantes, France.[1][2]
| PFL Europe 3 | ||||
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The poster for PFL Europe 3 | ||||
| Promotion | Professional Fighters League | |||
| Date | September 26, 2025 | |||
| Venue | Zénith Nantes Métropole | |||
| City | Nantes, France | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Background
The event marked the promotion's first visit to Nantes and fourth held in France, since PFL Europe 4 (2024) in December 2024.[3] The promotion was originally scheduled an event in France on May 23, but the event was cancelled and shifted to July 5 in Belgium instead.[4]
The event was scheduled to be headline by a welterweight bout between Abdoul Abdouraguimov and promotional newcomer Kevin Jousset.[5][6] However, Abdouraguimov withdrew from the event due to personal reasons and the bout was cancelled. As a results, a lightweight bout between Amin Ayoub and Donovan Desmae was promoted to new main event status.[7] In turn, Desmae was forced to withdrew due to being hospitalised on August 23 and waa replaced by Keweny Lopes.[8]
The event was featured the semifinals of 2025 PFL Europe Tournament in a lightweight and bantamweight divisions. Mahio Campanella withdrew from the event against Gustavo Oliveira and was replaced by Baris Adiguzel.[9] In turn, Oliveira was forced to withdrew due to a cut sustained in training and was replaced by Julien Lopez.[10]
Results
| Main card (DAZN / PFL App) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Lightweight | Amin Ayoub | def. | Keweny Lopes | TKO (punches) | 3 | 3:19 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Boris Mbarga Atangana | def. | Jhony Gregory | TKO (punches) | 1 | 2:17 | |
| Bantamweight | Baris Adiguzel | def. | Julien Lopez | KO (punches) | 1 | 0:36 | [a] |
| Lightweight | Connor Hughes | def. | Gino van Steenis | KO (head kick) | 1 | 2:56 | [b] |
| Bantamweight | Dean Garnett | def. | Jan Ciepłowski | Submission (guillotine choke) | 3 | 0:38 | [c] |
| Lightweight | Aleksandr Chizov | def. | Claudio Pacella | Decision (split) (28–29, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [d] |
| Preliminary card (DAZN / PFL App) | |||||||
| Lightweight | Darragh Kelly | def. | Bakhtiyar Abdulaev | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 2:29 | |
| Middleweight | Vincent del Guerra | def. | Sofiane Aïssaoui | TKO (front kick to the body and punches) | 3 | 0:24 | |
| Lightweight | Mark Ewen | def. | Sebastien Di Franco | Submission (brabo choke) | 1 | 3:18 | [e] |
| Women's Strawweight | María Guédez Jr. | def. | Kiya O'Sullivan | Decision (split) (30–26, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
- 2025 PFL Europe Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL Europe Lightweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL Europe Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL Europe Lightweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL Europe Lightweight Tournament Alternate bout.
Tournament brackets
2025 PFL Europe Lightweight Tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
 Connor Hughes | KO | |||||||||
 Sebastien Di Franco | 1 | |||||||||
| Connor Hughes | KO | |||||||||
 Gino van Steenis | 1 | |||||||||
 Decky McAleenan | 3 | |||||||||
| Gino van Steenis | UD | |||||||||
| Connor Hughes | ||||||||||
 Aleksandr Chizov | ||||||||||
| Gavin Hughes | 3 | |||||||||
 Claudio Pacella | UD | |||||||||
| Claudio Pacella | 3 | |||||||||
| Aleksandr Chizov | SD | |||||||||
 Mark Ewen | 1 | |||||||||
| Aleksandr Chizov | TKO | |||||||||
2025 PFL Europe Bantamweight Tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
 Mahio Campanella | UD | |||||||||
| Matiss Zaharovs | 3 | |||||||||
| Baris Adiguzel[a] | KO | |||||||||
| Julien Lopez[b] | 1 | |||||||||
| Anas Azizoun | 1 | |||||||||
 Gustavo Oliveira | KO | |||||||||
| Baris Adiguzel | ||||||||||
| Dean Garnett | ||||||||||
| Dean Garnett | UD | |||||||||
 Tuomas Grönvall[c] | 3 | |||||||||
| Dean Garnett | SUB | |||||||||
 Jan Ciepłowski | 3 | |||||||||
| Jan Ciepłowski | TKO | |||||||||
| Julien Lopez | 1 | |||||||||
