| PFL 8 | ||||
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 The poster for PFL 8 | ||||
| Promotion | Professional Fighters League | |||
| Date | October 17, 2019 | |||
| Venue | Mandalay Bay Events Center | |||
| City | Las Vegas, Nevada | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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The PFL 8 mixed martial arts event for the 2019 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on October 17, 2019, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The event was the eighth of the 2019 season and marked the start of the playoffs for the Featherweight and Lightweight divisions. [1]
| Main Card (ESPN+) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Lightweight | Loik Radzhabov | def. | Chris Wade | Decision (unanimous) (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) | 3 | 5:00 | [a] |
| Lightweight | Natan Schulte | def. | Akhmet Aliev | Submission (arm triangle choke) | 2 | 2:26 | [b] |
| Featherweight | Daniel Pineda | def. | Jeremy Kennedy | Submission (guillotine choke) | 1 | 4:00 | [c] |
| Lightweight | Chris Wade | def. | Nate Andrews | Decision (majority) (19-19, 20-18, 20-18) | 2 | 5:00 | [d] |
| Lightweight | Islam Mamedov | vs. | Loik Radzhabov | Draw (majority) | 2 | 5:00 | [e] |
| Lightweight | Akhmet Aliev | def. | Rashid Magomedov | Decision (unanimous) (20-18, 20-18, 20-18 | 2 | 5:00 | [f] |
| Preliminary Card (ESPN2) | |||||||
| Featherweight | Lance Palmer | def. | Alex Gilpin | Decision (unanimous) (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) | 3 | 5:00 | [g] |
| Lightweight | Natan Schulte | def. | Ramsey Nijem | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 0:52 | [h] |
| Featherweight | Jeremy Kennedy | def. | Luis Rafael Laurentino | TKO (punches) | 2 | 1:24 | [i] |
| Featherweight | Daniel Pineda | def. | Movlid Khaybulaev | TKO (punches) | 1 | 0:29 | [j] |
| Featherweight | Alex Gilpin | def. | Andre Harrison | Technical Submission (ninja front choke) | 2 | 1:49 | [k] |
| Featherweight | Lance Palmer | def. | Alexandre de Almeida | Decision (unanimous) (20-17, 20-18, 20-18) | 2 | 5:00 | [l] |
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1 |  Lance Palmer | UD 2 | ||||||||||||
| 9 |  Alexandre de Almeida | L | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Lance Palmer | UD 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Alex Gilpin | L | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Alex Gilpin | SUB 2 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Andre Harrison | L | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Lance Palmer | UD 5 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Alex Gilpin | L | ||||||||||||
| 2 |  Movlid Khaybulaev | L | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Daniel Pineda | KO 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Daniel Pineda | SUB 1 | ||||||||||||
| 6 |  Jeremy Kennedy | L | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Luis Rafael Laurentino | L | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Jeremy Kennedy | TKO 2 | ||||||||||||
*Daniel Pineda was originally scheduled to face Lance Palmer but was forced to pull out of the bout after failing NAC drug test. [2] He was replaced by Alex Gilpin. [3]
(SD) | (Split Decision) | |
(UD) | (Unanimous Decision) | |
(MD) | (Majority Decision) | |
SUB | Submission | |
(T)KO | (Technical) Knock Out | |
L | Loss |
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Natan Schulte | SUB 1 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Ramsey Nijem | L | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Natan Schulte | SUB 2 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Akhmet Aliev | L | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Akhmet Aliev | UD 2 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Rashid Magomedov | L | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Natan Schulte | UD 5 | ||||||||||||
| 7 |  Loik Radzhabov | L | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Islam Mamedov | L | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Loik Radzhabov | Draw 2 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Loik Radzhabov | UD 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Chris Wade | L | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Chris Wade | MD 2 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Nate Andrews | L | ||||||||||||
(SD) | (Split Decision) | |
(UD) | (Unanimous Decision) | |
(MD) | (Majority Decision) | |
SUB | Submission | |
(T)KO | (Technical) Knock Out | |
L | Loss |