Josh Silveira Plans To Fight All Four Previous PFL Champions To Win 2024 Light Heavyweight Title, Including Teammate

Josh Silveira desires the entire smoke.

Silveira returns to motion tonight (Fri., June 21, 2024) at PFL 5 towards 2022 PFL Mild Heavyweight champion Rob Wilkinson in hopes of securing a spot within the 2024 PFL playoffs, which can happen within the Huntsman Heart in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah.

Silveira is coming off a first-round, 74-second end of 2022 PFL Welterweight champion Sadibou Sy at PFL 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sy dislocated his thumb, leading to a TKO.

The 2024 Skilled Fighters League Mild Heavyweight division is probably the most stacked it has ever been, as 5 PFL champions reside in it: Wilkinson (2022), Sy (2022), Antonio Carlos Jr. (2021), Impa Kasaganay (2023), and Jakob Nedoh (2023—European).

Silveira hopes to beat two extra, main him to a $1,000,00 championship.

“Life works in a bizarre method, and God works in unusual methods. Final yr wasn’t my yr to win it, however possibly it is this yr for me to go beat earlier champions- do one thing that hasn’t been completed earlier than,” Silveira mentioned throughout PFL 5 media day. “Simply think about, I beat 4 earlier champions to win the belt. If God would have instructed me that final yr, I’d have been calm about dropping the finals. We do not know what the longer term holds, however that is what the route appears to be like like. Sadibou was a champion, although it was 170 lbs. Rob is a champion. We’ll discover out Friday evening if I’ve to struggle any extra champions.”

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Silveira instructed MMAMania.com he actually hopes to face Carlos Jr. within the finals. Carlos Jr. is Silveria’s major coaching accomplice and pal, and his dad, who co-founded the enduring American Prime Group, is their head coach.

The 30-year-old is second within the PFL Mild Heavyweight standings with six factors.

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