PFL vs. Bellator takeaways: Ngannou gets a dance partner in Ferreira

What were the biggest moments from PFL vs. Bellator? Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim offer their final thoughts after a historic 10-fight card in Saudi Arabia.

PFL finally gets its prizefight

Wagenheim: It took about half a second. No, I’m not talking about how long it took for the PFL’s immense heavyweight champion, Renan Ferreira, to knock out Bellator’s outsized champ, Ryan Bader. That took 21 seconds. But after referee Kerry Healey pushed Ferreira away from a prone, motionless Bader and waved off the fight, it took about half a second for the television feed to switch its focus to cageside and a smiling Francis Ngannou.

Ngnnou, the PFL’s prized signee, had said earlier in the week that he would face the winner of Saturday’s main event when he makes his PFL debut later this year. Of course, the former UFC heavyweight king has work to do first, as he will face former heavyweight boxing world champion Anthony Joshua in a boxing ring on March 9. That bout, Ngannou’s second as a boxer after last October’s tightly contested split-decision loss to reigning champ Tyson Fury, will also take place in Riyadh.

Ngannou was cageside Saturday at the makeshift outdoor arena, making for quite an assemblage of heavyweights. UFC champ Jon Jones was there, as was boxing legend Mike Tyson, who was enlisted to wrap championship belts around the waists of the winners of the day’s PFL champion-vs.-Bellator champion bouts.

For most of the day, the Bellator fighters took home the gold, winning all five fights before the main event. The PFL may have bought Bellator MMA a few months ago, but on this day, Bellator owned the PFL.

Until the final act, that is. That’s when the PFL got precisely what it wanted. Ferreira, who has lost only one of his last 10 fights, scored his fourth knockout in a row, with all but one coming in Round 1. We all know what Ngannou is about. Now he is lined up to fight a man with similarly devastating…