Irish striking ace, Paul Hughes has rebounded to the winner’s enclosure tonight in some spectacular fashion, finishing Brazilian foe, Bruno Ferreira with a stunning 42-second knockout win in the pair’s main event clash at PFL Belfast tonight.
Hughes, who had been sidelined since January of this year, pushed undisputed Bellator MMA lightweight champion, Usman Nurmagomedov the distance over the course of five rounds, suffering his first-ever professional defeat in a back-and-forth, debated decision loss to the Russian.
And so-far failing to secure himself a title re-run with the incumbent champion, Hughes returned tonight on homesoil, with the Derry native headlining PFL Belfast in a showdown over the course of three rounds against Miranda.