Sadibou
Sy expects to do well at his natural body weight as he moves up
two weight classes for the
Professional Fighters League 2024 season.

Sy (16-7) will take on Joshua
Silveira (12-2) in the light heavyweight regular season at

PFL 2 on April 12 at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas.
The Swedish veteran started his
Professional Fighters League journey at middleweight in 2018
before dropping to welterweight the next season. Sy won the $1
million PFL welterweight championship in 2022.

“To be honest, I have a lot of people around me that I trust
completely,” said Sy. “And after each fight, after each season, we
sit down and we discuss things and we just felt that, I already won
at 170. I’ve been fighting at 170 since 2019. It was easier for me
at that point to make the weight. It just became harder and harder
for me to make the weight and at one point we just thought like why
not try a new weight division and I got intrigued by being the
first and only one that’s been competing in three different weight
divisions. So for me, instead of making a crazy cut, I’m doing no
cuts, so it’s going to be fun.”

At 6’3” cutting down to 170 was always a monumental task for “The
Swedish Denzel,” who always knew that it couldn’t go on forever.
While he is moving up two weight classes, Sy expects to fare well
sans intense dieting followed by a draining weight cut.

“I believe that I’m going to be able to perform well here. I’m
going to compete [at] a weight that my body is used to and not
having to go through the crazy weight cut and dieting for a long
time in my case, to be able to make 170. It has made it better for
me because I’ve been able to actually focus on just my craft and
staying in the gym and going hard and then being able to refuel and
refeed. So I actually believe that my body is going to hold up good
here and I’m not concerned about the weight.

“We’ve always [thought] that me making 170 is not going to be
something that’s going to be going on for too long. So after the
finals we sat down. We were going through different options that we
had and we decided that this was the best route for us to go.”

Sadibou lost to Magomed
Magomedkerimov in the PFL 2023 finals in November, which
snapped a seven-fight winning streak. Meanwhile, Silveira racked up
three consecutive first-round stoppages in the PFL 2023 season
before losing to Impa
Kasanganay in the light heavyweight finals.

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