Josh Silveira Plans To Fight All Four Previous PFL Champions To Win 2024 Light Heavyweight Title, Including Teammate

Josh Silveira wants all of the smoke.

Silveira returns to action tonight (Fri., June 21, 2024) at PFL 5 against 2022 PFL Light Heavyweight champion Rob Wilkinson in hopes of securing a spot in the 2024 PFL playoffs, which will take place in the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Silveira is coming off a first-round, 74-second finish of 2022 PFL Welterweight champion Sadibou Sy at PFL 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sy dislocated his thumb, resulting in a TKO.

The 2024 Professional Fighters League Light Heavyweight division is the most stacked it has ever been, as five PFL champions reside in it: Wilkinson (2022), Sy (2022), Antonio Carlos Jr. (2021), Impa Kasaganay (2023), and Jakob Nedoh (2023—European).

Silveira hopes to beat two more, leading him to a $1,000,00 championship.

“Life works in a weird way, and God works in strange ways. Last year wasn’t my year to win it, but maybe it’s this year for me to go beat previous champions- do something that hasn’t been done before,” Silveira said during PFL 5 media day. “Just imagine, I beat four previous champions to win the belt. If God would have told me that last year, I would have been calm about losing the finals. We don’t know what the future holds, but that’s what the direction looks like. Sadibou was a champion, even though it was 170 lbs. Rob is a champion. We’ll find out Friday night if I have to fight any more champions.”

Silveira told MMAMania.com he really hopes to face Carlos Jr. in the finals. Carlos Jr. is Silveria’s main training partner and friend, and his dad, who co-founded the iconic American Top Team, is their head coach.

The 30-year-old is second in the PFL Light Heavyweight standings with six points.

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