| PFL 7 | ||||
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 The poster for PFL 7 | ||||
| Promotion | Professional Fighters League | |||
| Date | June 27, 2025 | |||
| Venue | Wintrust Arena | |||
| City | Chicago, Illinois, United States | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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The PFL 7 mixed martial arts event for the 2025 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on June 27, 2025, at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois, United States. This event marked the semifinals of the single-elimination tournament format in the Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight and Middleweight divisions. [1] [2] [3]
The event marked the promotion's third visit to Chicago and first since PFL 3 (2024) in April 2024. [4]
The event featured the semifinals of 2025 PFL World Tournament in a middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. [5]
A bantamweight bout between former Bellator Bantamweight World Champion Sergio Pettis and former interim champion Raufeon Stots took place at this event. [6] The pairing was previously scheduled to meet for the bantamweight title and the Grand Prix at Bellator 279 in April 2022, but Pettis was forced to pull out due to sustaining an injury that required surgery. [7]
| Main card (ESPN / ESPN+) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Middleweight | Fabian Edwards | def. | Josh Silveira | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [a] |
| Light Heavyweight | Sullivan Cauley | def. | Phil Davis | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [b] |
| Bantamweight | Sergio Pettis | def. | Raufeon Stots | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Dalton Rosta | def. | Aaron Jeffrey | Decision (split) (29–28, 27–30, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [c] |
| Light Heavyweight | Antônio Carlos Júnior | def. | Simeon Powell | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [d] |
| Preliminary card (ESPN+) | |||||||
| Heavyweight | Valentin Moldavsky | vs. | Alexander Romanov | No Contest (accidental groin strike) | 1 | 4:26 | [e] |
| Lightweight | Ronnie Gibbs | def. | Biaggio Ali Walsh | Technical Submission (arm-triangle choke) | 2 | 2:45 | |
| Heavyweight | Oleg Popov | def. | Rodrigo Nascimento | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [f] |
| Light Heavyweight | Rafael Xavier | def. | Karl Albrektsson | TKO (punches) | 1 | 0:27 | [g] |
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
 Valentin Moldavsky | UD | |||||||||
| Sergey Bilostenniy | 3 | |||||||||
| Valentin Moldavsky | 1 | |||||||||
 Alexander Romanov | NC | |||||||||
| Alexander Romanov | SUB | |||||||||
 Timothy Johnson | 1 | |||||||||
| Alexander Romanov | ||||||||||
| Oleg Popov | ||||||||||
 Abraham Bably | 3 | |||||||||
 Rodrigo Nascimento [a] | SD | |||||||||
| Rodrigo Nascimento | 3 | |||||||||
| Oleg Popov | UD | |||||||||
| Oleg Popov | SD | |||||||||
 Karl Williams [b] | 3 | |||||||||
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Phil Davis | TKO | |||||||||
 Rob Wilkinson | 2 | |||||||||
| Phil Davis | 3 | |||||||||
| Sullivan Cauley | UD | |||||||||
| Alex Polizzi [a] | 1 | |||||||||
| Sullivan Cauley | TKO | |||||||||
| Sullivan Cauley | ||||||||||
| Antônio Carlos Júnior | ||||||||||
 Karl Moore | 3 | |||||||||
| Antônio Carlos Júnior | SD | |||||||||
| Antônio Carlos Júnior | UD | |||||||||
| Simeon Powell | 3 | |||||||||
 Karl Albrektsson | 2 | |||||||||
| Simeon Powell | TKO | |||||||||
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Impa Kasanganay | 1 | |||||||||
| Fabian Edwards | TKO | |||||||||
| Fabian Edwards | UD | |||||||||
| Josh Silveira | 3 | |||||||||
| Mike Shipman | 3 | |||||||||
| Josh Silveira | UD | |||||||||
| Fabian Edwards | ||||||||||
| Dalton Rosta | ||||||||||
| Dalton Rosta | SUB | |||||||||
| Sadibou Sy | 2 | |||||||||
| Dalton Rosta | SD | |||||||||
 Aaron Jeffery | 3 | |||||||||
| Aaron Jeffery | SD | |||||||||
| Murad Ramazanov | 3 | |||||||||
