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00:00now of course pfl that july 5th card over in europe we have started to find out some fights
00:05as well uh it's going to be co-main evented at band to wait by tyler lapoulos and ali taleb now
00:11of course lapoulos is a 33 year old french fighter just signed with the pfl but has a long history
00:17in mma 21 and 4 mostly by submission or decision so he's a guy that's going to mix it up on the
00:22ground in a lot of cases but fought for the ufc on he was on a two-fight win streak with the ufc
00:26before leaving and now being part of the pfl signing with them and beat vince morales and
00:31cody stammon in his last two fights so guys that you know you know this is a guy who has made a name
00:35for himself over here in the ufc now going to start doing the same with the pfl over in brussels going
00:39to be his first fight against taleb club the 27 year old swede is the 2024 pfl men at bantamweight
00:46champion was supposed to fight in the world championship tournament here for the pfl at
00:52bantamweight but was pulled we didn't know why at first now we find out he's going to be on this
00:56card he's going to be part of this uh tournament to maybe take one step up instead of a big leap
01:01that he was in competition going from the meta tournament to the world tournament so now he
01:05gets to start over in europe he's on a three-fight win streak 12 and 1 for his career seven wins by
01:10ko tko and is five and one in the pfl so that is your co-main event at those bantamweights the main
01:16event we found out will be a bantamweight battle between patrick habarora and boris on tagana
01:22both these guys from belgium so you got the belgium card in brussels you got the two undefeated belgium
01:28prospects going to be headlining it at bantamweight as part of this habarora the belgian bomber as they
01:34call him is six and oh five of his six wins are by ko tko and he has a 21 and six amateur record where
01:40he won his last eight fights so this is a guy with a long career even though he only has six fights under
01:45his belt in his pro career he's been fighting for a long time he's got a lot of experience we'll see how
01:49that translates as he headlines this card against atanaga the five and oh fighter who's all his
01:55wins are by finish four by ko tko one by submission so he is not one to go to the judges so far in his
02:00early career it is going to be very interesting to watch those guys match up at home in brussels
02:06in front of the belgian crowd habarora has actually been talking about how exciting that is how that is
02:11how big that is for belgium that you never have these kind of cards for belgium these organizations
02:16have not gotten over there of course you have a lot of european cards for different organizations
02:21in combat sports especially mma the ufc has been to many places it's been to france it's been to
02:27you know the uk it's been uh to many different venues in asia in the u.s australia canada
02:32uh brazil but it has not been over to brussels as neither has the pfl and now they will do that with
02:39pfl europe as you see it there the quotes from habarora as he gets ready to put on a show
02:43in front of his countrymen at home it should be very exciting to see that tournament really get
02:48underway there for pfl europe i'm excited especially when you see such great fights at the top you know
02:55when you add in that mix of the former ufc fighter in lapolis and you add in uh taleb the pfl fighter
03:01who has that championship mentality from pfl mana can he make that step up and win the european
03:06tournament you know pull a dakota didjua then come over to the u.s and win that tournament because he was
03:10close to come to the u.s and they said you know what let's take it down a notch and give him a
03:14little bit more runway here to start his career so he will do that in europe but i'm excited to see
03:18what they do in brussels as well as where those semifinals will be and where uh the finals will
03:23be of course in france we'll see those lightweights return but the bantamweight should be getting into
03:27action as well we've seen the full card for that announced as well a lot of and again fighters that
03:31we may not know here on this side of the pond in the u.s some we will plenty we don't but names we will
03:37surely start to learn about as they make their way through pfl europe and try to win those two
03:42tournaments it should be awesome to see and as i said that that card over in south africa uh that's
03:48going to really bring a lot of eyeballs to get people to check out pfl africa as they start that
03:54tournament with francis negato of course being a big part of that as well a very very shrewd move by
03:58the pfl instead of just having you know some of these fighters from over there that you've never heard
04:02of and you don't pay attention to they say you know what let's stack this card with people you know
04:06draw you in and then we can introduce you to the others