PFL Season 3 playoff matchups for 2021

The third season of the Professional Fighters League will host its semifinal playoffs at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida, in August. The winners in each of the six weight classes will move to the $1 million championship on New Year's Eve.

Here are the semifinal bouts, with some newly rearranged dates for some divisions, as determined by the PFL's points system and series of tiebreakers.

PFL semifinals: Welterweights and Lightweights, Aug. 13, on ESPN2

Welterweights

1. Joao Zeferino (8 points) vs. 4. Magomed Magomedkerimov (5 points)

2. Rory MacDonald (8 points) vs. 3. Ray Cooper (5 points)

Lightweights

1. Loik Radzhabov (6 points) vs. 4. Alexander Martinez (3 points)

2. Clay Collard (6 points) vs. 3. Raush Manfio (6 points)

Non-playoff undercard bouts

Natan Schulte vs. Oliver Aubin-Mercier

Sadibou Sy vs. Gleison Tibau

Nikolai Aleksakhin vs. Brett Cooper

Darrell Horcher vs. TBA

Magomed Umalatov vs. Micah Terrill

Kyron Bowen vs. Michael Lombardo

PFL semifinals: Women's lightweights and Men's heavyweights, Aug. 19, ESPN

Women's lightweights

1. Larissa Pacheco (12 points) vs. 4. Taylor Guardado (6 points)

2. Kayla Harrison (12 points) vs. 3. Genah Fabian (8 points)

Heavyweights

1. Bruno Cappelozza (12 points) vs. 4. Jamelle Jones (6 points)

2. Denis Goltsov (10 points) vs. 3. Ante Delija (6 points)

Non-playoff undercard bouts

Renan Ferreira vs. Stuart Austin

Kaitlin Young vs. Marina Mokhnatkina

Carl Seumanutafa vs. Muhammed DeReese

Mariana Morais vs. Zamzagul Fayzallanova

Cynthia Vescan vs. Amanda Leve

PFL semifinals: Featherweights and Light heavyweights, Aug. 27, on ESPN2

Featherweights

1. Brendan Loughnane (9 points) vs. 4. Movlid Khaybulaev (6 points)

2. Chris Wade (8 points) vs. 3. Bubba Jenkins (6 points)

Light heavyweights

1. Antonio Carlos Jr. (7 points) vs. 4. Emiliano Sordi (4 points)

2. Cezar Ferreira (6 points) vs. Marthin Hamlet (5 points)

By Mark La Monica

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Mark La Monica is a deputy sports editor at Newsday. He also covers mixed martial arts.