PFL 2: MacDonald vs. Millender is an upcoming mixed martial arts event scheduled for April 29, 2021 at the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States.
Fight Card
Main Card (ESPN 2)
Welterweight Rory MacDonald vs. Curtis Millender
Welterweight Ray Cooper III vs. Jason Ponet
Welterweight Gleison Tibau vs. João Zeferino
Light Heavyweight Emiliano Sordi vs. Chris Camozzi
Preliminary Card (ESPN+)
Light Heavyweight Antônio Carlos Júnior vs. Tom Lawlor
Light Heavyweight Vinny Magalhães vs. Jordan Young
Light Heavyweight Cezar Ferreira vs. Nick Roehrick
Welterweight Sadibou Sy vs. Nikolay Aleksakhin
Light Heavyweight Dan Spohn vs. Marthin Nielsen
Background
The event was to be headlined by a welterweight clash between the former UFC title contender and Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald and the former UFC veteran David Michaud. On April 8, Michaud announced that he had to pull out of the bout due to medicals discovering a congenital heart condition, congenital bicuspid aortic valve with dilated aortic root, which put him at risk of aortic dissection. His future in MMA is also uncertain. He was replaced for the season by Curtis Millender.
In the co-main event, the 2019 PFL Welterweight tournament winner Ray Cooper III is scheduled to fight Jason Monet.
The remaining two fights of the main card are scheduled in the light heavyweight division: Jordan Johnson will fight Tom Lawlor, and 2019 PFL Light Heavyweight tournament winner Emiliano Sordi will fight former long time UFC fighter Chris Camozzi.
Jordan Johnson was set to fight Tom Lawlor at this event. However, in March, it was announced that Johnson pulled out and was replaced by Antônio Carlos Júnior. Later, PFL announced that Antônio Carlos Júnior will replace Johnson for the whole season.
On March 25, it was announced that Magomed Magomedkerimov and Alexey Kunchenko pulled out of their bouts due to undisclosed reasons. Due to this, Gleison Tibau and João Zeferino were scheduled to face each other.