PFL 2025 Tournament: New Format and Schedule Details

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00:00Now things have been announced officially and we get a little extra detail into how things are going to be working for the PFL tournament this

00:07year

00:08When they talked about all that in their press release this last week

00:12So let's get right into it and talk about what we can expect for the World Tournament

00:162025 for the PFL it's gonna start in April. Now, of course, we're having cards before then

00:22We're having a card this weekend for them. We'll talk about that coming up next but you know

00:25This is gonna start in April. You're gonna have the first rounds of that the 3rd the 11th and the 18th

00:32Then you're gonna have semi-finals in June the 12th the 20th and the 27th

00:37Finals in August on the 1st the 15th and the 21st

00:40So to be champ now you have to fight three times in five months a little less

00:45Than you had to before for the PFL where they had the regular season then you had the playoffs now

00:50This is just straight eight fighter tournaments with eight weight classes going to be involved

00:54We'll talk about that in just a second

00:55But like we said eight fighters two alternates as we talked about last week

00:59and it's just gonna be going kind of a consecutive weeks there not to give anybody too much of an advantage for rest and recovery and

01:05April June August

01:07It's gonna be the three

01:09Times you're gonna see this fight break down for all these tournaments in these eight-way classes

01:15Which are gonna be as announced heavyweight for the men light heavyweight

01:19middleweight

01:20featherweight

01:21Welterweight and lightweight phantom weight and then women's flyweight. So basically every man's

01:28Weight class there and then the women's flyweight the 125 errs that we've seen a lot of before

01:33So this is going to be an interesting situation there a lot of fighters gonna be involved 64 and all single elimination

01:39You lose you're out. No getting, you know, two or three fights for the point system

01:44This is just get in there you get who you get and you better make sure you get the win

01:48So you can move on and also another big change that we talked about

01:53Elbows will be allowed all the time now when they had the regular season before when they had the playoffs

01:59It was that you could not do elbows until you got to the finals because of course with all those fights in one

02:05You know calendar year

02:06The last thing you want is someone getting cut that keeps them out of competition even if they win

02:11So now it doesn't matter you get cut can't fight you're out

02:16You know

02:16We throw in one of the alternates because it is single elimination

02:20Elbows allowed throughout every fight is a regular fight three rounds of five minutes normal typical

02:25First round and semis and then of course the finals will be five minutes for titles

02:29So it is going to be you know, interesting to see how that is incorporated by some of these fighters and you know

02:34A lot of them obviously practice this throughout their training

02:37So now you know a little bit of a hindrance for them

02:40Sometimes I'm sure to make sure they don't do that in the middle of a fight or you know fighters getting penalized for throwing things

02:45You know, they are used to throwing and every other fight now

02:48Everything's open

02:50According to the you know, the regular rules of MMA, so it's gonna be wide open regular fights the whole time throughout this bracket

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