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#PFLPlayoffs are here as the road to the 2024
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July 9, 2024
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The pairings are officially set for the
Professional Fighters League postseason.
While the brackets were initially determined during last monthโs
final series of regular season events, there has been one
significant change to the playoff matchups. The PFL announced on
Tuesday that Linton
Vassell will replace the injured Valentin Moldvavsky and face
Oleg Popov
in a heavyweight semifinal on Aug. 2 at Nashville Municipal
Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
The
PFL 7 postseason event will be headlined by a heavyweight tilt
between Denis
Goltsov and Tim Johnson.
The main card will also include a pair of womenโs flyweight
semifinals: Dakota
Ditcheva vs. Jena Bishop
and Liz
Carmouche vs. Taila
Santos.
Two weeks later, light heavyweights and lightweights will get the
spotlight for
PFL 8 at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. A 205-pound
semifinal between Impa
Kasanganay and Joshua
Silveira โ which is a rematch of the 2023 PFL final โ will
serve as the eveningโs main event, while Rob
Wilkinson and Dovletdzhan
Yagshimuradov will lock horns in the co-headliner. Two
lightweight semifinals round out the main draw: Gadzhi
Rabadanov vs. Michael
Dufort and Brent
Primus vs. Clay
Collard.
The PFL postseason concludes on Aug. 23 at The Anthem in
Washington, D.C., with featherweight and welterweight semifinals.
The
PFL 9 card will be headlined by a 145-pound tilt pitting
Brendan
Loughnane against Kai Kamaka
III, while Magomed
Umalatov will meet Don Madge in a
welterweight scrap in the co-main event. Gabriel
Braga will lock horns with Timur
Khizriev in the other featherweight semi, and Shamil
Musaev will collide with Murad
Ramazanov in the other half of the bracket at 170 pounds.
All PFL postseason events will air on ESPN and ESPN+ in the United
States, with the main cards beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
Preliminary bouts will be announced at a later date.Sergey
Bilostenniy vs Tyrell Fortune