Professional Fighters League (PFL) today announced its lightweight and featherweight rosters for its upcoming 2021 season, which begins Friday, April 23 on ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+ in primetime.

“It has always been our goal to bring in the best talent the MMA world has to offer, and I believe we’ve done that with the 2021 roster,” said PFL President of Fighter Operations, Ray Sefo. “The featherweight and lightweight divisions are some of the toughest in the sport and our past champions are going to have an even tougher road to the title than ever before.”

Lightweight (155 lbs) roster:

Akhmed Aliev
Olivier Aubin-Mercier
Clay Collard
Johnny Case
Marcin Held
Joilton Lutterbach
Mikhail Odintsov
Anthony Pettis
Loik Radzhabov
Natan Schulte

Featherweight (145 lbs) roster:

Tyler Diamond
Bubba Jenkins
Movlid Khaybulaev
Brendan Loughnane
Sheymon Moraes
Lance Palmer
Jason Soares
Jo Sungbin

PFL has been in the headlines over the past couple of weeks with recent acquisitions of former UFC champions Anthony Pettis and Fabricio Werdum, as well as female fighting sensation Claressa Shields. The remaining regular season events will take place on April 29, May 6, June 10, June 17, and June 25.