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\nSergio Pettis suffered an upset loss to Mitchell McKee at PFL
\nChicago. | PFL MMA<\/b><\/p>\n
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Sergio The former Bellator Pettis had a two-bout winning streak snapped in his most recent McGrillen-Evans, meanwhile, has been victorious in six of his seven Sergio Pettis suffered an upset loss to Mitchell McKee at PFL Chicago. | PFL MMA Sergio Pettis will face another up-and-coming talent in the PFL Austin co-headliner. The former Bellator MMA bantamweight champion will square off against Lewis McGrillen-Evans on July 18 at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. The bout was announced during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPettis<\/a> will face another up-and-coming talent in the
\nPFL Austin<\/a> co-headliner.<\/p>\n
\nMMA<\/a> bantamweight champion will square off against Lewis
\nMcGrillen-Evans<\/a> on July 18 at the Moody Center in Austin,
\nTexas. The bout was announced during the
\nPFL Brussels<\/a> broadcast on Saturday. PFL Austin is headlined by
\na middleweight title rematch between Costello
\nvan Steenis<\/a> and Johnny
\nEblen<\/a>.<\/p>\nLooking to Rebound<\/h2>\n
\nouting at
\nPFL Chicago<\/a>, where he dropped a unanimous verdict to undefeated
\nnewcomer Mitchell
\nMcKee<\/a> on April 11. Prior to that, \u201cThe Phenom\u201d had earned
\nconsecutive triumphs over Magomed
\nMagomedov<\/a> and Raufeon Stotts. Pettis claimed Bellator gold with
\na victory over Juan
\nArchuleta<\/a> and defended the crown against Kyoji
\nHoriguchi<\/a> and Patricio
\nFreire<\/a> before relinquishing the strap to Patrick Mix<\/a>
\nat Bellator 301 in November 2023.<\/p>\n
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\nPFL<\/a> starts. His current four-bout winning streak includes a
\n2024 PFL Europe championship and a second-round submission of
\nAlan
\nPhilpott<\/a> in his last outing in May 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"