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Shabliy will return to action at
PFL Chicago .
Shabliy is scheduled to return to the cage in a lightweight matchup
at the promotion's Oct. 16 event at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. The
Russian last competed in June against Alfie
Davis , which saw him bounce back from his defeat to Usman
Nurmagomedov . Alexandr Shabliy faces Landry Ward on Oct. 16 at PFL
Chicago
Shabliy (25-4) has lost just once since 2017 and was on a
nine-fight win streak before coming up short against Nurmagomedov,
the most recent PFL lightweight champ. He’ll look to compile
another win streak when he returns at PFL Chicago. A flyweight
title fight headlines PFL Chicago: Tune in on Saturday, Oct. 16 at
11 p.m. ET on ESPN .
His upcoming opponent, Landry Ward
(11-3), is coming off a split-decision victory over Michael
Boylan in his PFL debut on Aug. 7 and has won his last three
fights.
The matchup joins a PFL Chicago card headlined by the women's
flyweight title rematch between Liz
Carmouche and Jena
Bishop .
Apart from the main event and Shabliy vs. Ward, the promotion has
also added fights between Denis
Goltsov (17-1) and Maxwell
Djantou Nana (13-2) at heavyweight and Sarvarjon
Khamidov (37-9) and Rafael
do Nascimento (9-2) at bantamweight to the card.
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