Last Friday, the PFL had one of their biggest cards to date in their Road to Dubai event. In the main event, we saw a rematch for the lightweight title between Usman Nurmagomedov (20-0, 1 NC) and Paul Hughes (14-3).

These two fought for the Bellator title back in January where Nurmagomedov won an incredibly close decision. From there, Hughes smoked his next opponent in under a minute to setup the rematch for the inaugural PFL lightweight world championship.

Like the first fight, this one was incredibly close. Watching it live, I had it ever so slightly 48-47 for Nurmagomedov, but I wasn’t entirely sure. I haven’t watched it back, but perhaps I would change my opinion to 48-47 Hughes watching it a second time. No matter what, the fight was incredibly close.

However, two of the judges sco

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