Brazilian welterweights Gleison Tibau and Joao Zeferino will now face each other at Friday night’s PFL 2 in Atlantic City, N.J., after their original opponents Aleksei Kunchenko and Magomed Magomedkerimov withdrew from the card due to undisclosed reasons, PFL announced.
Magomedkerimov was the PFL season 2018 welterweight champion but hasn’t fought since October 2019, withdrawing from that year’s finals as well. Kunchenko, on the other hand, was set to compete for the first time since going 2-2 in the UFC between 2018 and 2020. It’s still unclear if they will remain on the 2021 season.