The
Professional Fighters League playoffs continue with four
semifinal fights in the featherweight and welterweight
divisions.

Headlining
PFL 9 is an anticipated featherweight fight between 2022
champion Brendan
Loughnane and Kai Kamaka
III. Whoever emerges as the victor in the main event will then
go up against the winner between Gabriel
Braga and Timur
Khizriev. All playoff fighters made weight, including the
participants of the welterweight semifinal bouts: Magomed
Umalatov vs. Neiman
Gracie and Shamil
Musaev vs. Murad
Ramazanov.

What’s not yet clear is the full status of some of the non-playoff
fights. Welterweight Mukhamed
Berkhamov missed weight for his fight against Ray Cooper
III on his initial attempt and will try again after being given
additional time. More curiously, welterweight Eric
Alequin reportedly
didn’t appear during the weigh-ins for his fight against Luca Poclit.
The status of the fight is currently unknown. We’ll update the post
once updates are given.

Loughnane (28-5) has quickly become one of the faces of the
organization. The English fighter bounced back from a surprising
knockout loss in 2023 against Jesus
Pinedo with TKO wins over Pedro
Carvalho and Justin
Gonzales. He’ll look to fight his way to his second PFL finals.
Meanwhile, Kamaka III (14-5) is on an impressive five-fight win
streak that includes decision wins over Carvalho, Bubba
Jenkins and Henry
Corrales.

The PFL 9 main card will air live on ESPN and ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET/7
p.m. PT. Prelims air at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT exclusively on
ESPN+.

PFL 9 Weigh-in Results:

Brendan
Loughnane (146) vs. Kai Kamaka
III (145.6)
Magomed
Umalatov (170) vs. Neiman
Gracie (170)
Gabriel
Braga (146) vs. Timur
Khizriev (145.8)
Shamil
Musaev (170.2) vs. Murad
Ramazanov (171)
Ray
Cooper III (TBA) vs. Mukhamed
Berkhamov (TBA)*
Eric
Alequin (TBD)** vs. Luca Poclit
(TBA)
Tyler
Diamond (145.6) vs. Enrique
Barzola (145.4)
Jesse
Stirn (145.6) vs. Jose Perez
(145.3)
Maxwell
Djantou Nana (263.8) vs. Kent
Mafileo (248)
Shido
Boris (170.8) vs. Tyler Hill
(171)

*Berkhamov missed weight on his first attempt and was given
additional time to cut.
**Alequin didn’t appear during the weigh-ins. The status of the
fight is unknown.

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By IMAK ADMIN

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