The PFL holds its first card in Morocco tonight. PFL Africa 3 puts 12 bouts into the Mohammed V Sports Complex in Casablanca, and the two heavyweights in the main event have 14 wins between them, 13 of them by finish.
PFL Africa 3 start time and how to watch
The first fight is listed for 1 p.m. ET, which is 6 p.m. BST and 19:00 CEST, according to the Yahoo Sports viewing guide and the Tapology event page. In the United States the card streams on the PFL app, Yahoo Sports reports. The main event is the last of the 12 bouts and the only one scheduled for five rounds.
Kane vs Medkouri in the main event
Abdoulaye Kane is 28, stands 196 cm and has never won a fight on the scorecards. All five of his wins are finishes, four by knockout or TKO and one by submission. The Senegalese heavyweight was stopped in the first round by Justin Clarke at PFL Africa 1 in April, so he comes in off a loss.
So does Badr Medkouri. The 9-3-0 Frenchman had won four in a row before Eduardo Neves submitted him in the second round in May. Eight of his nine wins are knockouts, and no opponent has knocked him out: his three defeats are two submissions and a decision.
Two finishers, both beaten last time out, with five rounds available if they need them.
PFL Africa 3 fight card
| Fight | Division | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Abdoulaye Kane vs Badr Medkouri | Heavyweight | 5-2-0 / 9-3-0 |
| Taha Bendaoud vs Yanis Ghemmouri | Featherweight | 5-2-0 / 13-4-0 |
| Shido Boris Esperança vs Peace Nguphane | Welterweight | 12-2-0 / 9-3-0, 1 NC |
| Cornel Thompson vs Patrick Ocheme | Lightweight | 12-3-0 / 9-1-0 |
| Rivaldo Pereira vs David Samuel | Welterweight | 4-2-0 / 4-0-0 |
| Alain Majorique vs Raphael Uchegbu | Bantamweight | 6-2-0 / 11-2-0 |
| Yabna N'Tchalá vs Mouhamed Ba | Welterweight | 14-3-1 / 3-1-0, 1 NC |
| Reda Abdellaoui vs Salim Mhamdi | Bantamweight | 3-0-0 / 2-1-0 |
| Dwight Joseph vs Boule Godogo | Bantamweight | 16-3-0, 1 NC / 5-2-0 |
| Hussain Al Kurdi vs Demba Seck | Lightweight | 3-0-0 / 11-3-0 |
| Jane Osigwe vs Sanaa Mandar | Catchweight | 5-4-0 / 3-2-0 |
| Abderrahman Errachidy vs Oussama El Idrissi | Lightweight | 5-2-0 / 3-0-0 |
The win streaks that meet in Casablanca
The best fight on paper is not the main event. Patrick Ocheme has won seven in a row and Cornel Thompson five, and the two Nigerian lightweights fight each other. Ocheme ended his last bout in the first round with a flying knee. Thompson wins a different way: only two of his 12 victories are finishes, and his last fight was a unanimous decision.
Peace Nguphane brings five straight wins into his welterweight bout with Shido Boris Esperança, who has finished 10 of his 12 wins. One bout later, David Samuel puts a 4-0-0 record on the line. All four of his wins are finishes, and Rivaldo Pereira, his opponent, has won three in a row.
Samuel is one of four unbeaten fighters on the card. The others, Reda Abdellaoui, Hussain Al Kurdi and Oussama El Idrissi, are all 3-0-0.
Rematch and old scores on the undercard
Jane Osigwe and Sanaa Mandar have done this before. Osigwe won a unanimous decision over five rounds when they met in August 2025, and that defeat is still the most recent result on Mandar's record.
Three earlier results also hang over the card without being rematches. Nguphane beat Yabna N'Tchalá on points in April, Dwight Joseph took a split decision over Alain Majorique in June, and Al Kurdi submitted Abderrahman Errachidy in the second round on the same night. All six are back in different bouts. Joseph, at 16-3-0 with one no contest, has more wins than anyone else on the bill.
Errachidy is back against El Idrissi in an all-Moroccan lightweight fight, and every one of Errachidy's five wins is a finish. The first bout is at 19:00 CEST, and Kane against Medkouri closes the night.
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