LI's Chris Wade back for PFL Season 4
Chris Wade after beating Bubba Jenkins in a featherweight fight during the PFL playoffs at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 in Hollywood, Fla. Credit: Cooper Neill/Cooper Neill
The Professional Fighters League begins its fourth season on April 20 with an opening night featuring returning champions in the lightweight and light heavyweight divisions.
Raush Manfio (lightweight) and Antonio Carlos Jr. (light heavyweight) won the $1 million championship last year and will start their two-fight regular season at Esports Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
The second event scheduled for April 28 will feature the return of Islip's Chris Wade, a finalist last season. He'll face two-time PFL champion Lance Palmer in their first match of the season at featherweight. Heavyweights also will compete on the PFL 2 card.
PFL 1 fight card, April 20
Main card, 9 p.m. ET on ESPN,
Lightweight: Raush Manfio vs. Don Madge
Lightweight: Anthony Pettis vs. Myles Price
Light heavyweight: Antonio Carlos Jr. vs. Delan Monte
Lightweight: Clay Collard vs. Jeremy Stephens
Prelims, 5:30 p.m. on ESPN+
Light heavyweight: Emiliano Sordi vs. Joshua Silveira
Lightweight: Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. TBA
Light heavyweight: Marthin Hamlet vs. Teodoras Aukstuolis
Light heavyweight: Omari Akhmedov vs. Viktor Pesta
Light heavyweight: Robert Wilkinson vs. Bruce Souto
Lightweight: Alexander Martinez vs. Stevie Ray
PFL 2 fight card, April 28
ESPN2 Card
Heavyweight: Bruno Cappelozza vs. Stuart Austin
Featherweight: Brendan Loughnane vs. Ryoji Kudo
Heavyweight: Ante Delija vs. Matheus Scheffel
Heavyweight: Renan Ferreira vs. Jamelle Jones
ESPN+ Card
Featherweight: Lance Palmer vs. Chris Wade
Featherweight: Bubba Jenkins vs. Jo Sungbin
Heavyweight: Denis Goltsov vs. Sam Kei
Heavyweight: Ali Isaev vs. Klidson Abreu
Featherweight: Sheymon Moraes vs. Boston Salmon
Featherweight: Alejandro Flores vs. Saba Bolaghi
Mark La Monica is a deputy sports editor at Newsday. He also covers mixed martial arts.
