{"id":23686,"date":"2026-08-01T12:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=23686"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:27:41","slug":"moustapha-diakhate-makes-explosive-pfl-debut-finishes-darryl-walker-in-round-1-at-pfl-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=23686","title":{"rendered":"Moustapha Diakhate Makes Explosive PFL Debut, Finishes Darryl Walker In Round 1 At PFL New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PFL New York main card opening bout featured a light heavyweight contest between Moustapha Diakhate and Darryl Walker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right after the opening bell, Diakhate tagged Walker with a jab and then scored a phenomenal takedown in the center of the SmartCage. However, the 34-year-old wasted no time in getting up and landing a handful of powerful punches that forced Diakhate to take notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, later in the round, Diakhate scored another takedown, secured back position, and from mount unleashed vicious left-handed ground-and-pound on his American foe, forcing the referee to step in and stop the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Official decision: Moustapha Diakhate defeated Darryl Walker by TKO in Round 1 (2:35)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his win over Darryl Walker in his promotional debut at PFL New York, Diakhate extends his professional MMA record to 6-0-1.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PFL New York: Moustapha Diakhate vs. Darryl Walker: Highlights<\/h2>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/moustapha-diakhate-makes-explosive-pfl-debut-finishes-darryl-walker-in-round-1-at-pfl-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PFL New York main card opening bout featured a light heavyweight contest between Moustapha Diakhate and Darryl Walker. Right after the opening bell, Diakhate tagged Walker with a jab and then scored a phenomenal takedown in the center of the SmartCage. However, the 34-year-old wasted no time in getting up and landing a handful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2983,668,10491,3666,1844,10490,733,2211,7100],"class_list":["post-23686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-events","tag-darryl","tag-debut","tag-diakhate","tag-explosive","tag-finishes","tag-moustapha","tag-pfl","tag-walker","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}