{"id":1864,"date":"2025-06-21T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1864\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:35:10","slug":"gadzhi-rabadanov-destroys-kevin-lee-with-knockout-flurry-in-pfl-6-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1864\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadzhi Rabadanov destroys Kevin Lee with knockout flurry in PFL 6 main event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gadzhi Rabadanov<\/a> ran through Kevin Lee<\/a> to book his ticket to the finals.<\/p>\n

In Friday\u2019s PFL 6<\/a> main event in Wichita, Kansas, the Dagestani star needed a little more than half a round to pummel Lee with punches and send him crashing face-first to the mat. Rabadanov seemingly landed every punch he threw from the opening bell until referee Jason Herzog mercifully stepped in to wave off the bout via knockout.<\/p>\n

Check out video of the one-sided beatdown below.<\/p>\n

The TKO stoppage officially came at the 2:37 mark of Round 1.<\/p>\n

Things immediately went downhill for Lee when Rabadanov rocked him with a jab early, then wobbled him again with a right hand. A rattled Lee never seemed to recover as Rabadanov continued to put hands on him. It was after another hard right that Lee went for a desperation takedown, which resulted in him face-planting on the canvas and possibly injuring his shoulder.<\/p>\n

With the win, Rabadanov advances to the PFL 2025 lightweight tournament final, where he meets Alfie Davis<\/a>, who put on his own impressive performance Friday with a unanimous decision win over former Bellator champion Brent Primus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the co-main event, former Bellator flyweight champion Liz Carmouche<\/a> booked her ticket to the 125-pound tournament final with a clear-cut decision win over the previously undefeated Elora Dana<\/a>. Though Dana showed impressive toughness in the three-round fight, the more experienced Carmouche proved to be too much for her.<\/p>\n

Carmouche faces Jena Bishop<\/a> in the finals. Bishop impressed in her semifinal bout, submitting Ekaterina Shakalova<\/a> in the second round.<\/p>\n

The bantamweight finals are also set with Marcirley Alves<\/a> and Justin Wetzell<\/a> earning one-sided decision wins over Jake Hadley<\/a> and Mando Gutierrez<\/a>, respectively, to advance in the 135-pound tournament.<\/p>\n

PFL 6 got off to a fast start with three of the first four preliminary bouts ending via submission. Watch those finishes below.<\/p>\n

Main Card<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gadzhi Rabadanov def. Kevin Lee via TKO (strikes) (R1, 2:37)<\/p>\n

Liz Carmouche def. Elora Dana via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)<\/p>\n

Archie Colgan<\/a> def. Mansour Barnaoui<\/a> via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)<\/p>\n

Marcirley Alves def. Jake Hadley via unanimous decision (30-26 x3)<\/p>\n

Alfie Davis def. Brent Primus via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)<\/p>\n

Justin Wetzell def. Mando Gutierrez via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)<\/p>\n

Preliminaries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jena Bishop def. Ekaterina Shakalova via submission (rear-naked choke) (R2, 2:07)<\/p>\n

Magomed Magomedov<\/a> def. Sarvarjon Khamidov<\/a> via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)<\/p>\n

Vinicius Cenci<\/a> def. Antonio Caruso<\/a> via submission (triangle choke) (R1, 1:43)<\/p>\n

Darragh Kelly<\/a> def. Mike Hamel<\/a> via submission (neck crank) (R3, 1:51)<\/p>\n

Ilara Joanne<\/a> def. Saray Orozco<\/a> via unanimous decision (30-27 x2, 29-28)<\/p>\n

Nick Meck<\/a> def. Alan Dominguez<\/a> via submission (rear-naked choke) (R1, 4:10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gadzhi Rabadanov ran through Kevin Lee to book his ticket to the finals. In Friday\u2019s PFL 6 main…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1708,2571,2576,561,2574,204,2570,1412,2572,2573,105,1686,2575,560,1682,1687,1684,1683,62,67,132,68,1917,2577],"class_list":{"0":"post-1864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-all-womens-sports","9":"tag-destroys","10":"tag-event","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-flurry","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-gadzhi","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-kevin","17":"tag-knockout","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-lee","20":"tag-main","21":"tag-mma","22":"tag-pfl","23":"tag-pfl-news","24":"tag-rabadanov","25":"tag-results","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-with","31":"tag-womens-combat"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114720441817827752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}