The 2024 Professional Fighters League (PFL) regular season recently came to an end in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which means it’s time for all fighters who advanced to begin their playoff run in hopes of winning the $1 million prize at the end of the combat rainbow, which will be awarded to each division winner at the year-end championship event.
The promotion announced the schedule for the opening round of the playoffs, along with all of the main card fights, which will begin on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024 in Nashville, TN., featuring the heavyweight and women’s flyweight divisions.
Take a look:
PFL Heavyweight and Women’s Flyweight Playoffs Main Card Friday, August 2, 2024
Heavyweight main event: Denis Goltsov (34-8) vs. Tim Johnson (18-9)
Women’s Flyweight Playoffs Co-Main Event: Dakota Ditcheva (12-0) vs. Jena Bishop (7-1)
Heavyweight Playoffs Main Card Bout: Oleg Popov (18-1) vs. Linton Vassell (25-9)
Women’s Flyweight Playoffs Main Card Bout: Liz Carmouche (22-7) vs. Taila Santos (21-3)
Two weeks after that, the promotion will be headed to Hollywood, Fla., as the light heavyweights and lightweights begin their march to the finals. Headlining that event will be 2023 winner, Impa Kasanganay, taking on Josh Silveira.
PFL Light Heavyweight and Lightweight Playoffs Main Card Friday, August 16 – 9:00 pm
Light Heavyweight Playoffs Main Event: Impa Kasanganay (17-4) vs. Josh Silveira (13-3)
Light Heavyweight Playoffs Co-Main Event: Rob Wilkinson (19-2) vs. Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov (23-7-1)
Lightweight Playoffs Main Card Bout: Gadzhi Rabadanov (22-4-1) vs. Michael Dufort (13-5)
Lightweight Playoffs Main Card Bout: Brent Primus (14-3) vs. Clay Collard (25-13)
On Aug. 23, the promotion heads to Washington D.C., with the welterweights and featherweights taking center stage.
PFL Welterweight and Featherweight Playoffs Main Card Friday, August 23
Featherweight Playoffs Main Event: Brendan Loughnane (29-5) vs. Kai Kamaka (14-5-1)
Welterweight Playoffs Co-Main Event: Magomed Umalatov (16-0) vs. Don Madge (11-5-1)
Featherweight Playoffs Main Card Bout: Gabriel Braga (14-1) vs. Timur Khizriev (16-0)
Welterweight Playoffs Main Card Bout: Shamil Musaev (18-0-1) vs. Murad Ramazanov (12-1)
The rest of the event lineups will be announced in the coming weeks, as will the championship event, which will crown six new champions while making them all instant millionaires, before taxes are levied, of course.
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