It’s 𝗪𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗥 𝗚𝗢 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 TONIGHT ➡️🏠#PFLWorldChampionship spots are on the line as Heavyweights & Women’s Featherweights enter the SmartCage
Pre-Show: 7pm ET on ESPN+
Opening Card: 7:30pm ET on ESPN +
Main Card: 9pm ET on ESPN/ESPN+ pic.twitter.com/1oqCcpdJa4— PFL (@PFLMMA) August 18, 2023
The Professional Fighters League will continue its postseason with PFL 8 on Friday inside The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, where semifinals in the heavyweight and women’s featherweight divisions are scheduled to unfold. Renan Fereira looks to take another step toward a $1,000,000 payday in the main event, as the No. 2 seed at heavyweight collides with Maurice Greene.
PFL 8 “Ferreira vs. Greene”—which airs live on ESPN and streams to ESPN+ at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT—also features the second heavyweight semifinal matching Denis Goltsov with Jordan Heiderman, a featherweight appetizer pitting Nathan Kelly against Damion Nelson and the two women’s featherweight semifinals, as Larissa Pacheco meets Olena Kolesnyk and Marina Moknatkina faces Amber Leibrock. The undercard streams to ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, with a heavyweight tilt between Kings MMA’s Danilo Marques and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Satoshi Ishii anchoring the preliminary festivities.
A closer look at the PFL 8 particulars:
THE LINEUP
265: Renan Ferreira vs. Maurice Greene145: Larissa Pacheco vs. Olena Kolesnyk
265: Denis Goltsov vs. Jordan Heiderman
145: Marina Mokhnatkina vs. Amber Leibrock
145: Nathan Kelly vs. Damion Nelson
265: Danilo Marques vs. Satoshi Ishii
125: Kaytlin Neil vs. Maira Mazar
265: Louie Sutherland vs. Daiqwon Buckley
THE RUNDOWN
• Preview• Weigh-In Report
• 5 Things You Might Not Know About Maurice Greene
• By The Numbers: Pacheco vs. Kolesnyk
• Rivalries: Denis Goltsov
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