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A closer look at the 2023 PFL finalists fighting for the $1 million cash prize
Swedish striking sensation Sadibou Sy is one of the PFL finalists 2023. Photo via PFL (Twitter)
Let’s take a closer look at the fighters who will fight for $1 million at the PFL’s 2023 finals on November 24!
Women’s featherweight: Larissa Pacheco
Larissa Pacheco. Photo via Instagram (@lpaccheco)
- Record: 22-4
Women’s featherweight finalist Larissa Pacheco won the PFL championship and the $1 million cash price in lightweight last year, as she defeated Kayla Harrison.
Women’s featherweight: Marina Mokhnatkina
Photo via Instagram (@mokhnatkina_marina)
- Record: 11-3
Women’s featherweight Marina Mokhnatkina made it to the finals via three straight wins, two via stoppage and one via unanimous decision. The 35 year-old made her PFL debut in 2021.
Featherweight: Jesus Pinedo
Jesus Pinedo. Photo via Instagram (@elmudopinedo)
- Record: 22-6-1
In his first PFL season featherweight UFC veteran Jesus Pinedo made it all the way to the finals with two stoppage wins and one split decision.
Featherweight: Gabriel Alves Braga
Gabriel Alves Braga. Photo via Instagram (@gabrielbragamm)
- Record: 12-0
Brazilian featherweight Gabriel Alves Braga TKO’d former UFC title challenger Marlon Moraes and had two split decisions to make it to the finals.
Lightweight: Clay Collard
Photo via Instagram (@cassius_claymma)
- Record: 24-10
PFL veteran Clay Collard made it to the finals with two unanimous decisions and one TKO.
Back in 2021, he won an upset against former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis in his first fight in the PFL.
Lightweight: Olivier Aubin-Mercier
Photo via Instagram (@oliaubin)
- Record: 20-5
Canada’s Olivier Aubin-Mercier won the PFL’s lightweight tournament last year and has not lost a single fight since he left the UFC in 2019.
Welterweight: Magomed Magomedkerimov
Photo via Instagram (@mmagomedkerimov)
- Record: 33-6
Magomed Magomedkerimov won the PFL’s first $1 million welterweight final in 2018 and is now ready to face Sadibou Sy with the intention to bank his second million.
Welterweight: Sadibou Sy
Sadibou Sy. Photo via Instagram (@sadibousy)
- Record: 16-6-2
Swedish PFL veteran Sadibou Sy made it to the semifinals at middleweight in his first season in the promotion back in 2018 and has been a cornerstone of the division since.
In 2023, he pulled off two spectacular finishes and one razor-thin split decision to get to the finals.
Last season he won the welterweight final and banked his first $1 million cash prize. Now Sy is one win away from winning his second straight title in the promotion.
Light heavyweight: Impa Kasanganay
Photo via Instagram (@impak5)
- Record: 14-3
Former UFC fighter Impa Kasanganay won two of his three fights via stoppage to make it to the finals in his first PFL season.
Light heavyweight: Josh Silveira
Photo via Instagram (@jmdasilv)
- Record: 12-1
Josh Silveira made it to the finals after three straight first round stoppage wins and will now fight for the $1 million cash prize.
Silveira has an impressive pro record of 12-1 and only lost one if ever in the promotion.
Heavyweight: Renan Ferreira
PFL finalists 2023. Photo via Instagram (@renan_problema_mma)
- Record: 11-3
Brazil’s Renan Ferreira lost to Rizvan Kuniev in the first fight, but the results were overturned to no contest due to a positive drug test from Kuniev.
Since then he has back-to-back first-round KO wins against Matheus Scheffel and Maurice Greene.
Heavyweight: Denis Goltsov
Photo via Instagram (@denis_goltsov)
- Record: 32-7
After three straight stoppage wins, including a 18 second KO of Yorgan De Castro, Goltsov made it to the heavyweight finals.
2023 PFL World Championship
Photo via PFL (Twitter)
The PFL finals takes place at Anthem in Washington D.C. on Friday November 23.
- Heavyweight: Denis Goltsov vs. Renan Ferreira
- Light heavyweight: Josh Silveira vs. Impa Kasanganay
- Welterweight: Sadibou Sy vs. Magomed Magomedkerimov
- Lightweight: Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Clay Collard
- Featherweight: Gabriel Alves Braga vs. Jesus Pinedo
- Women’s featherweight: Marina Mokhnatkina vs. Larissa Pacheco
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