| PFL Champions Series 2: Eblen vs. van Steenis | ||||
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 The poster for PFL Champions Series 2: Eblen vs. van Steenis | ||||
| Promotion | Professional Fighters League | |||
| Date | July 19, 2025 | |||
| Venue | GrandWest Arena | |||
| City | Cape Town, South Africa | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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PFL Champions Series Cape Town: Eblen vs. van Steenis and PFL Africa 1: 2025 First Round was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Professional Fighters League that took place on July 19, 2025, at GrandWest Arena in Cape Town, South Africa.
The event marked the promotion's debut in South Africa, which became the 14th country to held a PFL and WSOF event. This also the first event to held in Africa region. On May 20, the promotion announced that they've changed the date for their from July 26 to July 19 instead.
A PFL Middleweight Championship bout between Johnny Eblen and Costello van Steenis headlined the event.
The event also featured the quarterfinals of 2025 PFL Africa Tournament in a heavyweight and bantamweight divisions.
At the weigh-ins, Shannon van Tonder weighed in at 136.2 pounds, 0.2 pounds over the bantamweight limit and he was fined a percentage of his purse, which went to Boule Godogo.
| PFL Champions Series 2 (DAZN / ESPN+) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Middleweight | Costello van Steenis | def. | Johnny Eblen | Technical Submission (rear-naked choke) | 5 | 4:51 | |
| Women's Flyweight | Dakota Ditcheva | def. | Sumiko Inaba | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Featherweight | A. J. McKee | def. | Akhmed Magomedov | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Lightweight | Makkasharip Zaynukov | def. | Takeshi Izumi | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Corey Anderson | def. | Denis Goltsov | TKO (elbows) | 2 | 3:28 | |
| 2025 PFL Africa 1 (DAZN / PFL App) | |||||||
| Bantamweight | Nkosi Ndebele | def. | Mahmoud Atef | TKO (punches) | 1 | 4:50 | |
| Heavyweight | Maxwell Djantou Nana | def. | Mickaël Groguhe | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight | Boule Godogo | def. | Shannon van Tonder | Decision (split) (30–26, 28–29, 29–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Justin Clarke | def. | Jashell Ticha Awa | TKO (retirement) | 1 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight | Karim Henniene | def. | Asiashu Tshitamba | Decision (split) (30–27, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Joffie Houlton | def. | Abdoullah Kane | DQ (illegal knee) | 1 | 0:40 | |
| Bantamweight | Simbarashe Hokonya | def. | Frans Mlambo | Decision (unanimous) (30–26, 30–26, 30–25) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Abraham Bably | def. | Paul-Emmanuel Gnaze | KO (punch) | 1 | 4:59 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Juliet Ukah | def. | Ceileigh Niedermayr | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
 Paul-Emmanuel Gnaze | 1 | |||||||||
| Abraham Bably | KO | |||||||||
| Abraham Bably | ||||||||||
 Joffie Houlton | ||||||||||
| Joffie Houlton | DQ | |||||||||
 Abdoullah Kane | 1 | |||||||||
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 Justin Clarke | TKO | |||||||||
 Jashell Ticha Awa | 1 | |||||||||
| Justin Clarke | ||||||||||
| Maxwell Djantou Nana | ||||||||||
| Maxwell Djantou Nana | UD | |||||||||
| Mickaël Groguhe | 3 | |||||||||
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Nkosi Ndebele | TKO | |||||||||
 Mahmoud Atef | 1 | |||||||||
| Nkosi Ndebele | ||||||||||
 Simbarashe Hokonya | ||||||||||
| Frans Mlambo | 3 | |||||||||
| Simbarashe Hokonya | UD | |||||||||
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| Shannon van Tonder | 3 | |||||||||
 Boule Godogo | SD | |||||||||
| Boule Godogo | ||||||||||
 Karim Henniene | ||||||||||
| Asiashu Tshitamba | 3 | |||||||||
| Karim Henniene | SD | |||||||||
