| PFL MENA 2 | ||||
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 The poster for PFL MENA 2 | ||||
| Information | ||||
| Promotion | Professional Fighters League | |||
| Date | July 12, 2024 | |||
| Venue | The Green Halls | |||
| City | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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PFL MENA 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Professional Fighters League that will take place on July 12, 2024, at The Green Halls in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [1] [2] [3]
This event marked the quarterfinals of the 2024 PFL MENA tournament in a welterweight and lightweight divisions. The event also marks the promotion's third card held in Saudi Arabia and first since PFL MENA 1 (2024) in May 2024. [4]
| Main card (DAZN) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Middleweight | Mostafa Rashed Neda | def. | Abdel Rahmane Driai | KO (punch) | 1 | 2:34 | |
| Welterweight | Mohammad Alaqraa | def. | Youcef Ouabbas | TKO (punches) | 3 | 0:53 | [lower-alpha 1] |
| Welterweight | Jarrah Al-Silawi | def. | Rayan Atmani | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 4:20 | [lower-alpha 2] |
| Welterweight | Badreddine Diani | def. | Amir Fazli | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 3] |
| Lightweight | Mohsen Mohammadseifi | def. | Josh Togo | TKO (punches) | 1 | 3:33 | [lower-alpha 4] |
| Preliminary card (DAZN) | |||||||
| Lightweight | Souhil Tahiri | def. | Ahmed Amir | Decision (unanimous) (29–27, 29–27, 29–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 5] |
| Welterweight | Omar El Dafrawy | def. | Anthony Zeidan | Decision (unanimous) (30–25, 30–26, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 6] |
| Women's Atomweight | Hattan Alsaif | def. | Eman Baraka | TKO (retirement) | 2 | 3:00 | [lower-alpha 7] |
| Lightweight | Abdullah Saleem | def. | Omar Reguigui | Submission (triangle choke) | 1 | 1:30 | [lower-alpha 8] |
| Lightweight | Georges Eid | def. | Abbas Khan | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 9] |
| Flyweight | Ziad Ayman Mokhtar | def. | Hadi Al-Hussaini | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 3 | 4:24 | |
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
 Omar El-Dafrawy | UD | |||||||||
 Anthony Zeidan | 3r. | |||||||||
| Omar El-Dafrawy | ||||||||||
 Jarrah Hussein Al-Silawi | ||||||||||
| Jarrah Hussein Al-Silawi | SUB | |||||||||
 Rayan Atmani | 1r. | |||||||||
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 Amir Fazli | 3r. | |||||||||
 Badreddine Diani | UD | |||||||||
| Badreddine Diani | ||||||||||
 Mohammad Alaqraa | ||||||||||
| Mohammad Alaqraa | TKO | |||||||||
 Youcef Ouabbas | 3r. | |||||||||
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Ahmed Amir | 3r. | |||||||||
| Souhil Tahiri | UD | |||||||||
| Souhil Tahiri | ||||||||||
| Mohsen Mohammadseifi | ||||||||||
| Josh Togo | 1r. | |||||||||
| Mohsen Mohammadseifi | TKO | |||||||||
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| Georges Eid | UD | |||||||||
 Abbas Khan | 3r. | |||||||||
| Georges Eid | ||||||||||
| Abdullah Saleem | ||||||||||
| Abdullah Saleem | SUB | |||||||||
 Omar Reguigui | 1r. | |||||||||
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