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00:00Now let's get to the big boys the heavyweights this one has a lot of an
00:06Eastern flair to it
00:07If you will as a lot of Russians a lot of guys from over the ponds here fighting
00:11Against just to use really one US fighter here. So it's going to be heavily in the favor of someone
00:20Overseas getting this belt in the heavyweight
00:23Contest and that will start of course with
00:26Valentin Moldovsky the 33 year olds Russian risen Bellator and PFL fighter former Bellator heavyweight champion briefly
00:32He won that interim title
00:34He's got wins over Tim Johnson Linton vassal and the formerly mentioned Albrecht son who's gonna be of course light heavyweight
00:39But Tim Johnson Lynn vassal part of this tournament as we'll get to a little bit one-on-one last year with
00:44Getting a second win against vassal in their trilogy for a second loss against vassal in their trilogy fight
00:49They fought three times vassal has won the last two that was by split decision last June
00:54You'll serve boy out Romani the 32 Iranian fighter for know in his career very early in his MMA career
01:01But making a big name for himself online and go find him on social media
01:05You know one of those guys that'll you know
01:07Just go to random places and say okay who wants to take me on and see if anybody can take him down and
01:12People not having a lot of success and we'll see if the fighters in this heavyweight tournament have better success
01:16He's coming from outside the PFL and you know
01:19We'll get his first taste of big-time competition now when he faces off some of these names in the heavyweight division for the PFL
01:26Oleg Popov the 33 year old Russian who we last saw fighting for the PFL last year in that title fight that he lost
01:33It gold star in the finals lost by submission
01:361902 there was only a second loss in his career
01:38It's fought for m1 and Bellator as well has wins over Linton vassal in the semis last year
01:43He's gonna try to get redemption here and get the title that he saw last year and could not retrieve
01:49Alexander Romanov the Moldovian 34 year old 18 and 3 in his MMA career coming over from the UFC
01:56He was 2 and 3 in his last 5 fights
01:58Half of his wins are by submission but also a 6 by chaos
02:01So a guy that can beat you on the feet or the ground which is also, you know
02:04Always exceedingly rare in the heavyweight division, but not having much success in his last couple fights
02:09We'll see if he has better success here in the PFL as he joins this tournament
02:13Tim Johnson who we mentioned before last we saw the 39 year old from the US only us fighter in this one
02:18I was on as a late replacement against Nemcov in January over in Saudi Arabia
02:22Lost out on my rear naked choke in the second round former UFC Bellator and PFL fighter
02:27He's got losses against Moldovsky and vassal
02:29So, you know two guys in this tournament that have the upper edge against the aging vet here in Tim Johnson
02:35Another longtime vet Linton vassal as we've mentioned his name a couple times
02:38It's fought a lot of guys in this tournament the 41 year old out of the UK
02:4325 and 10 lots of fights under his belt fault for the Bellator and PFL has beaten Moldovsky as being Johnson
02:50Lost to Goldstaff and of course the champion Popov who won that belt in 2024
02:54That was the semi-final fight that he lost there that Popov end up getting into the finals on
03:00We also have Sergei
03:02Belostyanky
03:0329 year old from Russia 13 and 3 8 wins by KO and Abraham Bobby Lee
03:0829 year old from England five and one from one his first five fights before losing his last one
03:13Who's the ones you got to watch out for this one? I say Romanovsky
03:17Moldovsky and Popov. Those are the three that I'll keep my eye on when this tournament starts for the PFL