Lightweights, welterweights and two heavyweight stragglers will take their swings when the 2023 Professional Fighters League regular season moves forward with PFL 3 on Friday at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. Defending lightweight champion Olivier Aubin-Mercier draws the headlining assignment opposite big-ticket free agent Shane Burgos, while Clay Collard and 20-year-old promotional newcomer Yamato Nishikawa occupy the co-main event at 155 pounds. PFL 3 “Aubin-Mercier vs. Burgos”— which airs live on ESPN and streams to ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT—also features a heavyweight scrap pitting Denis Goltsov against Cezar Ferreira and a pair of welterweight tilts, as Carlos Leal Miranda faces David Zawada and Magomed Umalatov meets Dilano Taylor. Postliminary festivities start at 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. ET, with defending welterweight champion Sadibou Sy serving as the anchor in a showdown with Jarrah Al-Silawi at 170 pounds. Sadibou Sy (171) vs. Jarrah Al-Silawi (170.8) Magomed