Movlid Khaybulaev defeated Jesus Pinedo to turn out to be the 2025 PFL World Match featherweight champion on Friday night time.
Khaybulaev landed an early takedown, however an absence of exercise prompted the referee to face them again up with three minutes left to go within the spherical. Given a present, Pinedo turned up the warmth and began throwing heavy leather-based seeking to catch Khaybulaev.
Pinedo’s overly-aggressive strategy made all of it that a lot simpler for Khaybulaev to take him down as soon as once more, permitting him to trip out the rest of the spherical in Pinedo’s guard.
Khaybulaev picked up proper the place he left off on the primary, taking Pinedo to the mat and almost cinching in a rear-naked choke. Pinedo fended off the submission try, and earlier than lengthy, the referee stood them up as soon as once more as a consequence of exercise. This time, it was Khaybulaev who would explode, blasting Pinedo with a vicious proper hand that despatched the Peruvian crashing to the canvas.
Khaybulaev unleashed a brutal ground-and-pound assault, battering and bloodying his opponent. The referee took a detailed look, however Pinedo was doing simply sufficient to keep away from the knockout shot. That prompted Khaybulaev to fish for an arm-triangle choke, however Pinedo comfortably defended the maintain, making it out of the spherical.
Early within the fourth, Pinedo knocked down Khaybulaev with a giant proper hand. Khaybulaev shot in for a desperation takedown try, getting Pinedo’s again to the mat. That allowed the undefeated Dagestani a chance to recuperate earlier than getting again to work in Pinedo’s guard. Sadly, Pinedo couldn’t make the most of the second, spending a lot of the fourth spherical on his again.
Khaybulaev lastly discovered the end in spherical 5, securing an arm-triangle choke to seize his second PFL featherweight event championship.
Official End result: Movlid Khaybulaev def. Jesus Pinedo by way of submission (arm-triangle choke) at 1:17 of Spherical 5 to win the PFL featherweight world event ultimate.
