It was a night of nail-biting action as a packed-to-capacity Johannesburg crowd witnessed eight more fighters punching their tickets to the PFL Africa semifinals, Cape town Etc reports.
The series' African debut continued tonight at the Big Top Arena in Carnival City, with Africa's best featherweights and welterweights stepping into the spotlight and thrilling the Johannesburg crowd with explosive finishes.
PFL Africa General Manager, Elias Schulze, says, This was electric, it was aspirational. From the first fight to the very end, you saw heart and soul on display that even globally is rare, and that's what I'm hearing from my friends and family around the world tonight, what we saw tonight was the heart of the fighter come out.
In the main event, Patrick Ocheme 7-1 capped off the night with a strong performance, defeating Mohamed Camara 5-3-1 by unanimous decision to clinch his spot in the PFL Africa Featherweight Semifinals. Ocheme overcame a slow start in the first round and turned the tide in the second after dropping Camara with a big shot. He remained in control in the final round to secure the victory and a place in the Featherweight final four.
Ocheme admitted his determination to win was boosted by the cage-side presence of South Africa's Springbok rugby captain, Siya Kolisi. It played such a big part in a positive way for me. Seeing guys like that, doing so well and being so well respected, making the time to come and enjoy the show like this is truly inspiring to me.