| PFL 9 | ||||
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 The poster for PFL 9 | ||||
| Information | ||||
| Promotion | Professional Fighters League | |||
| Date | October 31, 2019 | |||
| Venue | Mandalay Bay Events Center | |||
| City | Las Vegas, Nevada | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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The PFL 9 mixed martial arts event for the 2019 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on October 31, 2019, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The event was the ninth of the 2019 season and marked the start of the playoffs for the Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight divisions. [1]
| Main Card (ESPN2) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Ali Isaev | def. | Denis Goltsov | TKO (punches) | 3 | 4:59 | [lower-alpha 1] |
| Heavyweight | Jared Rosholt | def. | Kelvin Tiller | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 2] |
| Light Heavyweight | Emiliano Sordi | def. | Bazigit Atajev | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 4:26 | [lower-alpha 3] |
| Light Heavyweight | Jordan Johnson | def. | Rashid Yusupov | Decision (unanimous) (30–26, 30–26, 29–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 4] |
| Heavyweight | Francimar Barroso | def. | Alex Nicholson | Decision (unanimous) (20–17, 19–18, 19–18) | 2 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 5] |
| Heavyweight | Denis Goltsov | def. | Satoshi Ishii | Decision (majority) (19–19, 20–18, 20–18) | 2 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 6] |
| Preliminary Card (ESPN+) | |||||||
| Heavyweight | Jared Rosholt | def. | Muhammed Dereese | TKO (punches) | 1 | 3:41 | [lower-alpha 7] |
| Heavyweight | Ali Isaev | def. | Kelvin Tiller | Decision (unanimous) (20–16, 20–17, 20–17) | 2 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 8] |
| Light Heavyweight | Rashid Yusupov | def. | Vinny Magalhães | KO (punches) | 1 | 2:46 | [lower-alpha 9] |
| Light Heavyweight | Maxim Grishin | vs. | Jordan Johnson | Draw (majority) | 2 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 10] |
| Light Heavyweight | Bazigit Atajev | vs. | Viktor Nemkov | Draw (majority) | 2 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 11] |
| Light Heavyweight | Emiliano Sordi | def. | Sigi Pesaleli | TKO (punches) | 1 | 1:13 | [lower-alpha 12] |
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1 |  Denis Goltsov | MD 2 | ||||||||||||
| 8 |  Satoshi Ishii | L | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Denis Goltsov | L | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Ali Isaev | TKO 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 |  Kelvin Tiller | L | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Ali Isaev | UD 2 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Ali Isaev | TKO 4 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Jared Rosholt | L | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Muhammed Dereese | L | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Jared Rosholt | TKO 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Jared Rosholt | UD 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Kelvin Tiller* | L | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Alex Nicholson | L | ||||||||||||
| 6 |  Francimar Barroso | UD 2 | ||||||||||||
* Francimar Barroso was forced to withdraw from the competition due to being ruled “not healthy enough to continue.” Alex Nicholson was selected to take his spot in the heavyweight semifinals, but was also later ruled unfit to compete. Kelvin Tiller was eventually chosen to return to the competition to face Jared Rosholt. [2]
(SD) | (Split Decision) | |
(UD) | (Unanimous Decision) | |
(MD) | (Majority Decision) | |
SUB | Submission | |
(T)KO | (Technical) Knock Out | |
L | Loss |
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1 |  Emiliano Sordi | TKO 1 | ||||||||||||
| 8 |  Sigi Pesaleli | L | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Emiliano Sordi | SUB 1 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Bazigit Atajev | L | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Bazigit Atajev | Draw 2 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Viktor Nemkov | L | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Emiliano Sordi | TKO 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Jordan Johnson | L | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Maxim Grishin | L | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Jordan Johnson | Draw 2 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Jordan Johnson | UD 3 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Rashid Yusupov | L | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Vinny Magalhães | L | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Rashid Yusupov | KO 1 | ||||||||||||
(SD) | (Split Decision) | |
(UD) | (Unanimous Decision) | |
(MD) | (Majority Decision) | |
SUB | Submission | |
(T)KO | (Technical) Knock Out | |
L | Loss |
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