Fabian Edwards will struggle former PFL light-heavyweight champion Impa Kasanganay within the first spherical of the 2025 PFL middleweight event in Florida on 18 April.
The Briton, 31, faces a tricky opener towards the American, who has 18 wins and 5 losses on his document.
Kasanganay’s final outing was a knockout loss within the last of the 2024 PFL light-heavyweight event.
Edwards enters the middleweight event as one of the favourites after two aggressive match-ups with former Bellator middleweight champion Johnny Eblen in 13 months.
The Birmingham fighter lost both those fights however holds wins over Mike Shipman and Aaron Jeffery, who additionally compete within the event.
The PFL tournaments will be knockout format, in contrast to earlier years the place the primary spherical contributed to a division league desk.
The eventual champions will obtain £395,000 ($500,000) in prize cash.
Additionally introduced for the first-round match-ups had been fights for Englishmen Jake Hadley, Linton Vassell, Shipman, Marc Diakiese, Alfie Davis and Simeon Powell.
Heavyweight Vassell will get an opportunity of revenge on 1 Might towards Oleg Popov, who beat him on the way in which to the 2024 last.
Northern Eire’s Karl Moore fights former light-heavyweight champion Antonio Carlos Jr on the identical night time, whereas Irish bantamweight Ciaran Clarke faces Kasum Kasumov on 11 April and Nathan Kelly takes on Taekyun Kim at featherweight on 3 April.
