Three titles on the line in Kigali

PFL Africa puts three titles on the line on Saturday, December 12, at BK Arena in Kigali. The welterweight, lightweight, and bantamweight tournament finals are the bouts the promotion posted. PFL Africa listed $100,000 for each final. The card is listed for 6 p.m. Central Africa Time.

The finals

Welterweight is 170 pounds. Shido Boris Esperança (13-2), of Angola, meets David Samuel (7-0), of Nigeria. Esperança stopped Peace Nguphane by TKO at 1:03 of the first round on October 10 in Casablanca. The finish was ground-and-pound. Referee Derek Hickey stopped it. Samuel went the distance in his semi-final, beating Rivaldo Pereira by unanimous decision, 30-27 on all three cards. Esperança reached the 2025 final and lost it to Yabna N’Tchala.

Lightweight is 155 pounds. Patrick Ocheme (10-1), of Nigeria, meets Demba Seck (11-3), of Senegal. Ocheme knocked out Cornel Thompson with a body kick at 2:46 of the first round. It was his second first-round knockout of the tournament.

Bantamweight is 135 pounds. Dwight Joseph (17-3), of Liberia, meets Raphael Uchegbu (11-2), of Nigeria. Joseph won his semi-final by split decision. Uchegbu is a former FCC champion. Joseph reached last year’s final and came up short.

Start times

Central Africa Time is two hours ahead of UTC and stays there in December. London is on Greenwich Mean Time. The United States is on standard time. Sydney is on daylight time, eleven hours ahead of UTC.

The card is listed for 6 p.m. in Kigali:

• Kigali: 6 p.m.
• London: 4 p.m.
• Sydney: 3 a.m. Sunday

6 p.m. in Kigali is the listed start of the card. In New York that is 11 a.m. Eastern. In Las Vegas it is 8 a.m. Pacific. SuperSport has the English broadcast in Africa. Canal+ has the French broadcast. SportyTV has it free-to-air.