PFL Tampa results: Cyborg wins at 41, ex-UFC six go 4-2

Cristiane Justino has not lost a fight since December 29, 2018. She was 33 then. She is 41 now, she has won ten in a row across three promotions since Amanda Nunes stopped her, and on Saturday in Tampa she took 25 minutes off a woman who was ranked fifth in the UFC's bantamweight division three months ago.

PFL Tampa gave Cyborg a unanimous decision over Ketlen Vieira at Benchmark International Arena. It was Vieira's first fight since leaving the UFC, where her last ranking snapshot in our rankings archive has her at number five, and where she got as high as number two.

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I wrote a piece on Wednesday about the six fighters on this card who used to be on the UFC roster, and about how unusual it was that five of them left on a win rather than getting cut. Here is how that group did.

The ex-UFC six went 4-2

Cristiane Justino, win. Her seventh UFC fight was in July 2019. She has fought nine times since, for Bellator and then PFL, and won all nine. Thirty wins, two losses, and an 8-0 professional boxing record sitting alongside it.

Daniel Marcos, win. He stopped Magomed Magomedov 11 seconds into the third round. Marcos went 5-1 in six UFC fights, the loss a unanimous decision in May 2025, and is 19-1 as a pro, and he is the one on this list whose UFC exit made the least sense to me.

Javid Basharat, win. Decision over Movsar Ibragimov. Basharat left the UFC in February with a win over Gianni Vazquez and is 16-2.

Dakota Bush, win. Decision over Morquez Forest, in a bout he took after Mirafzal Akhtamov came off the card.

Ketlen Vieira, loss. Five rounds with Cyborg at featherweight, a division up from where she was ranked. She is 16-6.

Taila Santos, loss. This is the one worth stopping on.

Sabrinna de Sousa is 7-0 and just beat a fighter who fought Shevchenko

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Sabrinna de Sousa is 25 years old, fights out of Bahrain, and went 15-0 as an amateur before turning professional. She is now 7-0, and the seventh win is a decision over Santos, who beat Roxanne Modafferi and Joanne Wood inside the UFC and shared a cage with Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 275 in 2022.

Santos is 23-5. She had won her previous fight, in May, over Qihui Yan. Losing to an unbeaten 25 year old is not a disgrace and it is also not nothing: at 33, in a division PFL is still assembling, it is the kind of loss that decides whether the next contract is a tournament seed or a showcase slot.

De Sousa, meanwhile, has now beaten the most credentialed opponent of her career and nobody outside of a few hundred people watching on Saturday night knows her name. Write it down.

Everything else, briefly

Gadzhi Rabadanov needed 22 seconds to stop Tracy Reeder, who was not the man he was supposed to fight: Jakub Kaszuba came off the card. Luke Trainer stopped Roland Dunlap in the second. Nkosi Ndebele, Natan Schulte, Gino van Steenis and Eoin Sheridan all took decisions.

Four of the bouts announced for this card came off and were replaced with a different matchup, which our card change log tracked as it happened. That is a rate of churn the UFC would be roasted for, and PFL gets very little attention for it, mostly because far fewer people are watching.

Which is the actual problem here, and it is not a fighting problem. Cyborg at 41 beating a top-five UFC bantamweight is a story that should travel. It aired opposite a UFC card that started 30 minutes earlier and ran three hours over the top of it. Ten wins in a row and seven years and eight months unbeaten, and the fight was the second-biggest thing on television in its own sport that night.