PFL 5 Outcomes: Gleison Tibau upsets Rory MacDonald in main tournament

The 2nd half of the Respectable Combatants League (PFL) Peculiar Season persevered to lift thrilling MMA hump, with one other thrilling tournament on Thursday evening that noticed eight fighters punch their tickets into the 2021 PFL Playoffs. Joao Zeferino and Antonio Carlos Jr. clinched number 1 seeds within the welterweight and light-weight heavyweight divisions respectively.

Within the marquee matchup of the ten-fight tournament and excellent welterweight contest of the Peculiar Season, Gleison Tibau pulled off one of the most biggest upsets of the Peculiar Season with a destroy up decision victory over Rory MacDonald. Even with the loss, MacDonald would per chance be advancing into the Playoffs after ending the Peculiar Season with 6 aspects, correct for 2nd residence within the welterweight division.

The co-main tournament noticed welterweight hump with Ray Cooper III, who became as soon as ineligible to originate aspects due to lacking weight, going through Nikolai Aleksakhin. Cooper III came away with a unanimous decision opt and a residence within the Playoffs. The 2019 PFL champion and 2018 runner up, Cooper III has now made the PFL Playoffs for the third consecutive 365 days.

Meanwhile within the sunshine heavyweight division, playoff implications were excessive as Emiliano Sordi and Dan Spohn, each and each in opt-or-trail-home instances, confronted off within the excellent 205-pound matchup of the evening. After three rounds of angry inspire-and-forth hump, Sordi and Spohn battled to a plot, giving each and each fighter one level, and transferring Sordi into a tie within the standings with Cory Hendricks. Sordi superior to the 2021 PFL Playoffs by contrivance of tiebreaker per the vogue of Peculiar Season fights (2-to-1).

Within the vital fight of the main card, light heavyweights Cezar Ferreira and Chris Camozza squared off in a exhausting-hitting contest.The fight went the three spherical distance, with Camozzi earning the unanimous decision victory and three aspects. Since Camozzi did no longer compile a destroy, he has been eradicated from playoff rivalry. As a result Marthin Hamlet has earned a playoff residence.

“PFL 5 became as soon as one other intense tournament as our welterweight and light-weight heavyweight fighters put it all on the line to protect shut a note at to originate their residence within the playoffs,” stated Peter Murray, PFL CEO. “Heading into their bouts, each and each fighter knew precisely what became as soon as wanted to contrivance and it brought out their best performances.”

“With their backs up towards the wall and going through opt-or-trail-home eventualities, we noticed eight fighters showcase their abilities and punch tickets to the 2021 PFL Playoffs,” stated Ray Sefo, President of Fighter Operations of PFL. “Our bizarre season layout permits us to have thrilling, can’t-omit hump at each and each tournament and I will’t wait to notice what’s in store at our Peculiar Season finale next Friday.”

In earlier hump, Magomed Magomedkerimov wasted no time in his 2021 PFL Peculiar Season debut towards Curtis Millender and picked up a vital spherical submission, earning him six aspects within the welterweight division and a residence within the playoffs.

Joao Zeferino clinched his 2nd-ever PFL Playoff residence with a 2nd-spherical submission towards Jason Ponet, earning eight aspects to entire atop the welterweight standings. Zeferino clinched a residence within the 2018 playoffs, but became as soon as compelled to withdraw due to injury.

Hendricks defeated Hamlet by submission within the third-spherical, bringing his 2021 PFL Peculiar Season level entire to four aspects, leaving him correct searching the sunshine heavyweight playoffs. With the end result, Ferreira and Antonio Carlos Jr. each and each clinched their spots within the PFL Playoffs.

Carlos Jr.’s fight towards Vinny Magahlhaes led to a no contest due to an unintentional low blow, with each and each fighter earning one level.

To kick off the ESPN+ card, Sadibou Sy and Aleksei Kunchenko went the distance in a welterweight matchup. Sy became as soon as awarded the victory by unanimous decision, pushing his season entire to four aspects. Within the vital light heavyweight matchup of the evening, Tom Lawlor defeated Jordan Young by unanimous decision, earning three aspects within the standings.

The 2021 Semifinal matchups within the welterweight division will scrutinize the tip-seeded Zeferino towards Magomedkerimov, and MacDonald matched up with Cooper III.

The 2021 Semifinal matchups within the sunshine heavyweight division will scrutinize the tip-seeded Carlos Jr. towards 2019 champion Sordi, and Ferreira versus Hamlet.

The PFL returns to Ocean On line casino Resort next Friday, June 25 as the league’s heavyweights and females’s lightweights make their excellent push for the 2021 PFL playoffs. All eyes would per chance be on 2019 PFL Champion Kayla Harrison as she looks to proceed her dominant bustle in the course of the division to originate a residence within the PFL playoffs. Additionally, the excellent light-weight and featherweight playoff contenders will additionally be determined at PFL 6.

All PFL 2021 Season events are stay in primetime on ESPN networks and streaming platforms, as effectively as on a wide and diverse group of workers of premier world distribution accomplice platforms reaching 160 countries spherical the globe.

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PFL 5 Total Outcomes:

Gleison Tibau def. Rory MacDonald by destroy up decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-29)
Ray Cooper III def. Nikolai Aleksakhin by unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 29-28)
Emiliano Sordi and Dan Spohn ends in a unanimous plot (28-28, 28-28, 28-28
Chris Camozzi def. Cezar Ferreira by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-27)

ESPN+ Card

Antonio Carlos Jr. Vinny Magalhaes ends in a No Contest (unintentional low blow, 2: 45)
Cory Hendricks def. Marthin Hamlet by third spherical submission (4: 09)
Joao Zeferino def. Jason Ponet by 2nd spherical submission (2: 16)
Magomed Magomedkerimov def. Curtis Millender by 1st spherical submission (1: 57)
Tom Lawlor def. Jordan Young (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Saibou Sy def. Aleksei Kunchenko by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

PFL 2021 SEASON STANDINGS

Welterweight Division