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PFL 8 (2019)

professional Fighters League MMA event in 2019

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ67766988 ↗
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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.

Background

The event was the eighth of the 2019 season and marked the start of the playoffs for the Featherweight and Lightweight divisions.

Results

2019 PFL Featherweight playoffs

*Daniel Pineda was originally scheduled to face Lance Palmer but was forced to pull out of the bout after failing NAC drug test. He was replaced by Alex Gilpin.

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The public source identifies “PFL 8 (2019)” as professional Fighters League MMA event in 2019. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around professional, Fighters and League.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with professional, Fighters and League providing the first useful test.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q67766988. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “PFL 8 (2019)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.