{"id":90133,"date":"2026-05-22T23:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/90133\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:29:09","slug":"video-punches-thrown-as-pfl-brussels-faceoff-turns-into-chaos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/90133\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Punches thrown as PFL Brussels faceoff turns into chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 22, 2026, 4:20 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Dan Hardy tried his best to prevent the fight, but it was too late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Punches flew at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/pfl-brussels-habirora-vs-henderson\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PFL Brussels<\/a> ceremonial faceoffs Friday when Khamzat Abaev and Luca Poclit squared up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Abaev (5-1) was first to engage, as he shoved Poclit&#8217;s hands and threw a kick in the air. Hardy, who is a PFL matchmaker and squared the fighters off, nearly lost his glasses when Poclit&#8217;s hand smacked him in the face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hardy maintained the fighters&#8217; distance, but there is only so much one man can do. Just when it appeared things were calm, haymakers were thrown by two opposing team members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Check out video of the incident (courtesy of PFL) above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Abaev and Poclit (10-2) won&#8217;t have anyone preventing them from throwing punches Saturday, when the two face off in a welterweight preliminary card bout at ING Arena.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779492549_534_79732437007-91-2748166.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 22, 2026, 4:20 p.m. ET Dan Hardy tried his best to prevent the fight, but it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[2952,211,210,45613,18712,18713,47586,7883,18714,9776,2687,18716,1498,1495],"class_list":["post-90133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-accessfree","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-sourcemma-junkie","tag-sstssportspfl","tag-sstsnpfl","tag-tagboxing","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagonline-video","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagpfl","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116620831409038824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}