Impa
Kasanganay’s bid for a repeat is in full effect.

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The
Kill Cliff FC standout secured the top seed in the
Professional Fighters League light heavyweight playoffs with a
second-round doctor stoppage victory against 2023 PFL Europe
kingpin Jakob Nedoh
at
PFL 5 on Friday night at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City,
Utah.

“I told myself this: How would I fight if I was leading Heaven’s
armies? God put me here and God’s gonna take me out of here,”
Kasanganay said. “No other man will. He’s a champion; you’ve got to
take it from him.”

After besting Joshua
Silveira to win the PFL title a year ago, Kasangany will get a
rematch with the fourth-seeded “Coninha” in the light heavyweight
semifinals on Aug. 16 at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. On
the other side of the 205-pound bracket, 2022 champion Rob Wilkson
will collide with Bellator veteran Dovletdzhan
Yagshimuradov.

Meanwhile, ex-Bellator champ Brent
Primus made the biggest statement at lightweight on Friday, as
he vanquished Solomon
Renfro with a third-round rear-naked choke to clinch the No. 1
spot at 155 pounds. He’ll meet No. 4 seed and 2023 finalist
Clay
Collard in one semifinal, while No. 2 Gadzhi
Rabadanov and No. 3 Michael
Dufort will square off in the other semifinal matchup.

“Nothing better in life. I love PFL, the platform,” Primus said.
“This is for my family. I’m going to Hollywood, Florida, for that
$1 million. I will win it. Let’s go.”

While the PFL postseason is taking shape, there is one more order
of business at hand. Next week, attention will turn to the
featherweight and welterweight divisions when
PFL 6 heads to the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, for the final event of the regular season.

A closer look at the up-to-the-minute PFL standings:


LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT

x-11: Impa
Kasanganay
x-9: Rob
Wilkinson
x-9: Dovletdzhan
Yagshimuradov
x-6: Joshua
Silveira
6: Antonio
Carlos Jr.
4: Sadibou
Sy
3: Alex
Polizzi
0: Simon
Biyong
0: Jakob
Nedoh
0: Andrew
Sanchez
0: Tom
Breese

***


LIGHTWEIGHT

x-9: Brent
Primus
x-6: Gadzhi
Rabadanov
x-5: Michael
Dufort
x-5: Clay
Collard
4: Elvin
Espinoza
3: Adam
Piccolotti
3: Bruno
Miranda
3: Mads
Burnell
0: Patricky
Freire
-1: Solomon
Renfro

***


WELTERWEIGHT

6: Don
Madge
6: Murad
Ramazanov
5: Shamil
Musaev
3: Magomed
Umalatov
3: Goiti
Yamauchi
0: Neiman
Gracie
0: Andrey
Koreshkov
0: Logan
Storley
0: Brennan
Ward
-1: Laureano
Staropoli

***


FEATHERWEIGHT

6: Brendan
Loughnane
6: Gabriel
Braga
3: Timur
Khizriev
3: Adam
Borics
3: Kai Kamaka
III
0: Bubba
Jenkins
0: Enrique
Barzola
0: Brett
Johns
0: Justin
Gonzalez
0: Pedro
Carvalho

***


HEAVYWEIGHT

x-10: Denis
Goltsov
x-8: Oleg
Popov
x-6: Valentin
Moldavsky
x-6: Tim
Johnson
5: Daniel
James
3: Tyrell
Fortune
3: Sergey
Bilostenniy
3: Linton
Vassell
0: Thiago
Santos
0: Danilo
Marques
0: Marcelo
Golm
-1: Davion
Franklin

***


WOMEN’S FLYWEIGHT

x-12: Dakota
Ditcheva
x-9: Taila
Santos
x-7: Liz
Carmouche
x-6: Jena
Bishop
5: Juliana
Velasquez
3: Kana
Watanabe
3: Ilara
Joanne
0: Chelsea
Hackett
0: Lisa
Mauldin
-1: Shanna
Young

x: Clinched playoff berth

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