Fabian Edwards didn’t really whoop it up after taking out former PFL champ Impa Kasanganay in the PFL 3 showdown last Friday in Orlando. It was like, boom, knockout, and then back to biz.
The fight kicked off like any clash of titans should, with Edwards tossing some crazy sharp inside elbows that made Kasanganay look like he’d just woken up on the wrong side of the bed. There was this one wicked elbow from Edwards that just sliced Kasanganay open like a horror movie scene. Blood everywhere. And man, the doctor had to jump in between rounds to check out Kasanganay’s face because the cut was the kind of thing you see and just go, “Whoa.”
But hey, it’s not like Kasanganay didn’t have his moments. He clipped Edwards with a punch after a random headbutt moment. Gotta love a little chaos, right? But Edwards, being this relentless beast, just went on finding those perfect shots. The end was triggered by this spot-on jab that turned Kasanganay’s legs to jelly. That was Edwards’ cue to swoop in for the grand finish.
Edwards then turned into a human tornado, just throwing punches left and right until Kasangany found himself on the floor and probably wondering what just happened. The ref decided it was enough at 2:14 in the second round. Post-fight, Edwards had a bro moment in the cage with his brother Leon, then shifted gears to eye his next opponent, Josh Silveira, who’d also snagged a win that night.
“I feel good but hey, this job’s not finished,” Edwards told whoever was listening. “One down, two more to go. No getting carried away. PFL, bring back those elbows already, geez.”
In the co-main scene, another earth-shaker – 2024 PFL champ Gadzhi Rabadanov just wrecked Marc Diakiese in a heartbeat. Literally gone in 32 seconds. Diakiese threw a kick, Rabadanov caught it, and bam, the fight was on the ground. It was like a rapid-fire pelting session from Rabadanov and Diakiese just went down like a house of cards.
This night was full of knockouts with Rabadanov marking yet another KO on his resume. Up next, he’s facing Jay-Jay Wilson in round two. Talking about making statements, Dalton Rosta completely overpowered PFL veteran Sadibou Sy in the middleweight stretch. Rosta put Sy down with a punch in the second round and it all ended with them grappling on the ground.
Rosta was throwing punches and trying submissions like a man on a mission till he snapped on a D’arce choke, and Sy was out cold. There wasn’t even a need for words; the fight was done.
Oh, and Jay-Jay Wilson locked in his semifinal spot in the lightweight tournament, practically walking over Mads Burnell. It was like watching a slow-motion demolition – Wilson just kept landing punches until the ref stepped in. Cue end scene in round 3.
Opening up the main card was the curveball move from Alfie Davis. He almost took Clay Collard’s head off with a spinning back elbow. It was crazy! Collard was skating on thin ice but somehow managed to hang around. Davis wasn’t having any of it though; he finished things with a barrage of punches, and the ref called time at 2:12 in round one. Short-lived but explosive, you could say.
Anyway, here’s how the rest played out at PFL 3: Kasanganay vs. Edwards.
Main Card:
– Fabian Edwards’s TKO escapade against Impa Kasanganay in second round, 2:14.
– Gadzhi Rabadanov had his 32-second ground-and-pound knockout over Marc Diakiese.
– Dalton Rosta submitted Sadibou Sy with a D’arce choke in round 2 at 3:29.
– Jay Jay Wilson’s TKO via ground strikes against Mads Burnell in round 3, 4:42.
– Alfie Davis’s first-round TKO after a dazzling spinning back elbow and punches against Clay Collard at 2:12.
Prelims:
– Josh Silveira won over Mike Shipman by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
– Brent Primus’s submission win over Vinicius Cenci thanks to a rear-naked choke in round 3 at 4:52.
– Aaron Jeffery’s split decision ho-hum over Murad Ramazanov (29-28, 28-29, 29-28).
So, if you tuned in looking for excitement and some edge-of-the-seat action, you didn’t leave disappointed. Well, unless you blinked and missed it because this event was like one of those blink-and-you-miss-it rollercoaster rides.
