PFL MENA 3 (2025)
Professional Fighters League MMA event in 2025
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PFL MENA 3: Champions Collide was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Professional Fighters League that took place on September 27, 2025, at The Arena Riyadh Venue for Exhibitions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[1][2][3]
PromotionProfessional Fighters League
DateSeptember 27, 2025
VenueThe Arena Riyadh Venue for Exhibitions
CityRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
| PFL MENA 3 | ||||
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The poster for PFL MENA 3 | ||||
| Promotion | Professional Fighters League | |||
| Date | September 27, 2025 | |||
| Venue | The Arena Riyadh Venue for Exhibitions | |||
| City | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Background
The event was featured the semifinals of 2025 PFL MENA Tournament in a welterweight, lightweight, featherweight and bantamweight divisions.[4]
At the weigh-ins, Assem Ghanem missed weight for his featherweight semifinal against Yanis Ghemmouri and was replaced by alternate Izzeddine Al Derbani, who was originally supposed to fight Hussein Salem. Additionally, the amateur flyweight bout between Hamad Marhoon and Ibrahim Chelabi has been canceled after Chelabi came in overweight.[5]
Results
| Main card (DAZN / PFL App) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Welterweight | Mohammad Alaqraa | def. | Ayman Galal | TKO (leg kick) | 1 | 0:21 | [a] |
| Lightweight | Mohammad Fahmi | def. | Mohsen Mohammadseifi | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 4:25 | [b] |
| Flyweight | Malik Basahel | def. | Ahmed Mostafa | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 2 | 1:54 | |
| Bantamweight | Islam Youssef | def. | Xavier Alaoui | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [c] |
| Lightweight | Salah Eddine Hamli | def. | Souhil Taïri | Submission (arm-triangle choke) | 3 | 1:30 | [d] |
| Featherweight | Islam Reda | def. | Taha Bendaoud | Decision (unanimous) (30–26, 30–26, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [e] |
| Preliminary card (DAZN / PFL App) | |||||||
| Catchweight (160 lb) | Hassan Ahmed Moustafa | def. | Abdulaziz bin Moammar | Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 3:00 | [f] |
| Bantamweight | Nawras Abzakh | def. | Moktar Benkaci | Decision (unanimous) (29–27, 29–27, 30–26) | 3 | 5:00 | [g] |
| Welterweight | Badreddine Diani | def. | Amir Fazli | Decision (split) (30–27, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [h] |
| Featherweight | Yanis Ghemmouri | def. | Izzeddine Al Derbani | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [i] |
- 2025 PFL MENA Welterweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL MENA Lightweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL MENA Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL MENA Lightweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL MENA Featherweight Tournament Semifinal.
- Amateur bout.
- 2025 PFL MENA Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal. Benkaci was deducted one point in round 2 due to an illegal elbows.
- 2025 PFL MENA Welterweight Tournament Semifinal.
- 2025 PFL MENA Featherweight Tournament Semifinal.
Tournament brackets
2025 PFL MENA Welterweight Tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
 Omar Hussein | 3 | |||||||||
 Mohammad Alaqraa | UD | |||||||||
| Mohammad Alaqraa | TKO | |||||||||
 Ayman Galal | 1 | |||||||||
 Mohamed Zarey | UD[a] | |||||||||
| Ayman Galal | 3 | |||||||||
| Mohammad Alaqraa | ||||||||||
 Badreddine Diani | ||||||||||
| Badreddine Diani | UD | |||||||||
| Ahmad Abdelbast Darwish | 3 | |||||||||
| Badreddine Diani | SD | |||||||||
 Amir Fazli | 3 | |||||||||
 Rostem Akman | 2 | |||||||||
| Amir Fazli | KO | |||||||||
- Originally a unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) win for Zarey, overturned after he tested positive for banned substances. Galal advanced to semifinals instead.
2025 PFL MENA Lightweight Tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Mohsen Mohammadseifi | UD | |||||||||
| Ahmed El Sisy | 3 | |||||||||
| Mohsen Mohammadseifi | 1 | |||||||||
| Mohammad Fahmi | SUB | |||||||||
 Georges Eid | 1 | |||||||||
| Mohammad Fahmi | SUB | |||||||||
| Mohammad Fahmi | ||||||||||
| Salah Eddine Hamli | ||||||||||
| Salah Eddine Hamli | SUB | |||||||||
 Abbas Khan | 3 | |||||||||
| Salah Eddine Hamli | SUB | |||||||||
 Souhil Taïri | 3 | |||||||||
| Abdullah Saleem | TKO | |||||||||
| Souhil Taïri | 2 | |||||||||
2025 PFL MENA Featherweight Tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Akram Nasri[a] | 3 | |||||||||
| Islam Reda | SUB | |||||||||
| Islam Reda | UD | |||||||||
| Taha Bendaoud | 3 | |||||||||
| Drissi Boualem[b] | 1 | |||||||||
| Taha Bendaoud | SUB | |||||||||
| Islam Reda | ||||||||||
| Yanis
Ghemmouri | ||||||||||
 Izzeddine Al-Derbani | – | |||||||||
| Yanis Ghemmouri | BYE[c] | |||||||||
| Yanis Ghemmouri | UD | |||||||||
| Izzeddine Al-Derbani[d] | 3 | |||||||||
| Hussein Salem | 3 | |||||||||
| Assem Ghanem | UD | |||||||||
- Abdullah Al-Qahtani withdrew from the tournament due to injury and was replaced by Akram Nasri.
- Abdelrahman Alhyasat withdrew from the tournament due to weight cut issues and was replaced by Drissi Boualem.
- Al Derbani pulled out of the bout due to medical issues and Ghemmouri therefore got a bye to the semi-finals.
- Assem Ghanem missed weight and was replaced by Al-Derbani.
2025 PFL MENA Bantamweight Tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Xavier Alaoui | UD | |||||||||
| Ziad Ayman Mokhtar | 3 | |||||||||
| Xavier Alaoui | 3 | |||||||||
| Islam Youssef | UD | |||||||||
| Benyamin Ghahraman[a] | 2 | |||||||||
| Islam Youssef[b] | KO | |||||||||
| Islam Youssef | ||||||||||
| Nawras Abzakh | ||||||||||
| Moktar Benkaci | TKO | |||||||||
| Marcel Adur | 1 | |||||||||
| Moktar Benkaci | 3 | |||||||||
| Nawras Abzakh | UD | |||||||||
| Nawras Abzakh | KO | |||||||||
| Ali Yazbeck | 2 | |||||||||
- Elias Boudegzdame withdrew from the tournament and was replaced by Benyamin Ghahraman.
- Tariq Ismail withdrew from the tournament due to injury and was replaced by Mehdi Saadi. In turn, Saadi withdrew from the event due to significantly missing weight and was replaced by alternate Islam Youssef.
