PFL/Ryan Locoīefore his second fight of the night, Horn told O'Connell that it didn't matter who he was fighting next - Rama or No. He'd ultimately go on to win the featherweight title and $1 million. Staying loose Lance Palmer was able to stay loose after defeating Max Coga in the PFL featherweight quarterfinals and defeated Andre Harrison in the semifinals later than night. One-night tournaments are exceedingly rare in the modern, highly regulated era of mixed martial arts, though, and the UFC hasn't held a one-night tournament since November 1999, at UFC 23. Many regional circuit events borrowed from that format as well. The UFC started in 1993 with an eight-man, one-night tournament and continued to use that format through most of the 1990s.
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His coach is Jeremy Horn, who has more than 110 pro fights and began his career in 1996 when fighting multiple times in a single night was the norm. "And that's not something that any of us have had to do before, and I think that's where the big mental hurdle comes in." "But you've gotta be mentally prepared to flip the switch, get a win, turn it back off, flip the switch again, get another win and do it all in one night. "You start planning how you're gonna spend the damn money once you make the playoffs," O'Connell said. O'Connell said the mental preparation, especially for fighting twice in one night, is of the utmost importance for the athletes. O'Connell took his $1 million and retired, but remained near the PFL cage as the play-by-play announcer for the 2019 season. He knocked out Rama in the semifinals, then stopped Vinny Magalhaes by third-round TKO on Dec. The entire year is a bit of a meat grinder for fighters who make it all the way to the finals, like O'Connell did. Surviving the grind Sean O'Connell beat Dan Spohn by majority decision in the PFL light heavyweight quarterfinals, and then had to get ready for a second fight on the same night. Finally, on New Year's Eve, the championship fight in each division is held with $1 million on the line. 11), they have to fight both their quarterfinals and semifinals bouts on the same night. Then, during three weeks of PFL playoff action (starting on Oct. After a regular season consisting of two bouts for each fighter, beginning in May, the top eight fighters (or four, in the case of women's lightweight) are seeded in a bracket.
The PFL has brought the concept of fighting multiple times in one night - once a staple during MMA's early days - back into the MMA mainstream as part of its traditional sports-like format. PFL playoffs: Bracket breakdowns at welterweight, women's lightweight.After beating Spohn by majority decision in a two-round PFL light heavyweight quarterfinal, he was heading into a three-round semifinal bout with Smealinho Rama on the very same night. There was no modern blueprint for O'Connell's situation in the first PFL playoffs. But O'Connell brushed it aside, sat down in a chair in the bowels of Southern California's Long Beach Arena, grabbed some Gatorade and tried to relax. That kind of unexpected encounter, with one of the most popular fighters in MMA history, could throw someone off their game. He was like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' Shook my hand, and that was it." I was like, 'Hey man, I'm a big fan, thanks for being here.' Or whatever. I'm riding this high, I just won in kind of a weird comeback fashion. "I ran into Chuck Liddell back there, backstage," O'Connell said. The aim for O'Connell was to chill out and cool down.
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He had a little bit over an hour until he had to fight - again - in the semifinals of the Professional Fighters League's 2018 playoffs. Sean O'Connell had just left the cage following an exhilarating, come-from-behind victory over Dan Spohn.
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