PFL to Run Second Half of 2023 Regular Season in Atlanta

𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀! Get Ready! PFL returns to the @OvertimeElite Arena! #2023PFL4: June 8th#2023PFL5: June 16th#2023PFL6: June 23rd pic.twitter.com/2nm9anlZ0M

— PFL (@PFLMMA) March 9, 2023

The Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta will serve as the stage for the latter half of Professional Fighters League’s 2023 season.

A press release from the PFL on Thursday indicated that the promotion would be returning to the 1,300-seat arena to run three events this June. The organization, which has its regular season kicking off on April 1 in Las Vegas, will be holding three events at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in that city, and then turns to Atlanta in June. The events are slated to go down on June 8, June 16 and June 23, and the PFL would then move towards its playoffs that will likely take place in August or September. This venue played host to the second half of PFL’s 2022 regular season as well.

The first of three fight cards in this building will be PFL 4: 2023 Regular Season, and no lineup for any of these events has been released. The league did state that the featherweight and light heavyweight divisions will be on tap for this June 8 fight card, and the presumptive headliners will be Brendan Loughnane and Rob Wilkinson – both champions in 2022.

On June 16, heavyweights will take center stage as well as the women’s featherweight division, but no specific competitors have been listed on the marquee yet. The same goes for the June 23 show, which will feature lightweights and welterweights. This pattern of keeping two specific weight classes together of 145 and 205, 155 and 170 as well as the heavyweights and sole women’s category has differed from the previous year.

In 2022, the three groups were 155 and 205 pounders, heavyweights and featherweights and finally welterweights competing on the same card as women’s lightweights. There will be no women’s 155-pound division in 2023, and it does not appear that PFL star Kayla Harrison will be engaging in the tournament this season.