PFL Sets 10-Bout Lineup for First 2023 Playoffs Event on Aug. 4

Per a launch from the promotion on Thursday, it has populated its
Aug. 4 billing on the Boeing Heart at Tech Port in San Antonio,
Texas. Featherweights and lightweight heavyweight semifinal matches are
slated atop the
PFL 7: 2023 Playoffs occasion, together with six further
“showcase” bouts to organize for future tournaments and even
potential Challenger Collection slots. The corporate will then change
gears after this playoff card for 2 exhibits in New York later in
the month.

Headlining the ESPN-based night shall be a 145-pound semifinal
between high seeded Bubba
Jenkins (21-6) and no. 4 seed Jesus
Pinedo (21-6-1) on one aspect of the featherweight bracket.
Jenkins is only one of three males in his weight class to win
twice this season, with a revenge choice over perennial playoff
competitor Chris Wade
adopted by a consciousness-depriving rear-naked choke over
Sung
Bin Jo to assert 9 factors. Peru’s Pinedo simply had his hand
raised as soon as in 2023, but it surely got here within the greatest doable second as
he flattened former champ Brendan
Loughnane in 94 seconds.

The co-main attraction takes place at 205 kilos, as top-seeded
Joshua
Silveira (11-1) battles it out with fourth seed Ty Flores
(13-4). One in every of solely three opponents this season to assert the
most 12 factors thanks to 2 finishes in Spherical 1, Silveira
choked out Sam Kei and
adopted it with a win over Delan Monte
when the Brazilian injured his knee on the 90-second mark. Whereas
Flores additionally secured two victories this season, he did so by
choice, towards Monte and Dan Spohn. The
latter got here after he missed weight by 5.2 kilos and was deducted
one playoff level, however nonetheless made it in.

The opposite two semifinal pairings are as follows: Gabriel
Braga (11-0) vs. Movlid
Khaybulaev (21-0-1, 1 NC), the place each featherweights sport
undefeated data and have a terrific deal to win or lose; and
Marthin
Hamlet (12-4) vs. Impa
Kasanganay (13-3), the place the previous notched two wins together with
a end alongside the way in which and the latter clawed his manner into the
205-pound bracket after throttling Tim Caron for
a five-point clinching efficiency. Additionally, of word, the group
has scheduled a pair of fights in its burgeoning ladies’s flyweight
class on the prelims.

PFL 7, 2023 Playoffs Lineup:

Bubba
Jenkins vs. Jesus
Pinedo – featherweight semifinal
Joshua
Silveira vs. Ty Flores –
mild heavyweight semifinal
Gabriel
Braga vs. Movlid
Khaybulaev – featherweight semifinal
Marthin
Hamlet vs. Impa
Kasanganay – mild heavyweight semifinal
Elvin
Espinoza vs. Keoni Diggs
– light-weight
Thad
Jean vs. Ali Omar –
welterweight
Desiree
Yanez vs. Lisa
Mauldin – ladies’s flyweight
Satoshi
Ishii vs. Danilo
Marques – heavyweight
Chelsea
Hackett vs. Ky Bennett –
ladies’s flyweight
Billy
Elekana vs. Chuck
Campbell – mild heavyweight