Cris Cyborg (29-2, 1 NC) will make her final professional MMA appearance against Ketlen Vieira (16-5) in the main event of PFL Tampa on August 22 at the Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Florida.
Cyborg won the vacant PFL featherweight title last December by submitting Sara Collins, having beaten Larissa Pacheco in her promotional debut. Cyborg has won eight straight under the Bellator and PFL banners since her final UFC appearance in 2019, and added a perfect 6-0 boxing record to her resume, capped by a WIBA title victory over Paulina Cardona in March. Vieira completed her UFC career with a win over Jacqueline Cavalcanti in May, departing with victories over Holly Holm, Miesha Tate, Cat Zingano and Sara McMann.
“PFL Tampa will be a special event as it hosts the retirement fight for our champion, Cris Cyborg. She is a pioneer of not just women’s MMA, but mixed martial arts as a whole, and it has been a privilege for PFL to have her as a deserving champion. Now she headlines one final time in the PFL cage, and will stand across from a proven challenger in Ketlen Vieira, who has one mission: ruin the goodbye and take the title. This is the conclusion to the storied career of Cyborg, and I can’t wait to be there cageside to witness her create MMA history for the last time,” John Martin (PFL CEO)