{"id":794292,"date":"2026-05-13T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794292\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:13:13","slug":"rob-wilkinson-to-face-former-heavyweight-champ-at-pfl-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794292\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Wilkinson to face former heavyweight champ at PFL San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rob
\nWilkinson will look to snap a three-fight skid at PFL San Diego. |
\nPFL MMA<\/b><\/p>\n

Rob
\nWilkinson<\/a> will welcome Abraham
\nBably<\/a> to the light heavyweight division at
\nPFL San Diego<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An elite and
\nundefeated welterweight prospect headlines PFL Brussels against a
\nformer UFC champ: Tune in Saturday, May 23 at 4 p.m. ET on
\nESPN2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The promotion confirmed the bout following an initial report from
\nCombat Evolved<\/a>. PFL San Diego takes place at
\nPechanga Arena in San Diego and is headlined by a featherweight
\nclash pitting A.J. McKee<\/a>
\nagainst Salamat
\nIsbulaev<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Champs Collide
\n
\nA two-time
\nUFC<\/a> veteran, Wilkinson won the
\nPFL<\/a> light heavyweight championship under the old season format
\nin 2022. After failing in drug test in relation to a bout against
\nThiago
\nSantos<\/a> in 2023, \u201cRazor\u201d has gone 2-3 in PFL competition. He has
\nlost his last three outings, including a first-round submission
\ndefeat to Luke
\nTrainer<\/a> in his most recent appearance at PFL Dubai on Feb.
\n7.<\/p>\n

Bably, meanwhile, enjoyed a memorable run through the PFL Africa
\nheavyweight field in 2025, finishing Paul-Emmanuel
\nGnaze<\/a>, Joffie
\nHoulton<\/a> and Justin
\nClarke<\/a> inside of a round. The 30-year-old Manchester Top Team
\nrepresentative has finished six of his eight career triumphs via
\nknockout or technical knockout. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Wilkinson will look to snap a three-fight skid at PFL San Diego. | PFL MMA Rob Wilkinson…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":794293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,347,1582,276,50,282982,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-794292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-professional-fighters-league","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116569335892232675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794292","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=794292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}