The table is set: when the dust settles, two of the eight men in this bracket will have punched their tickets to the Professional Fighters League finals on New Year’s Eve, where they will vie for the million-dollar grand prize.
Going into the regular season, welterweight looked to be one of PFL’s more intriguing divisions, and it has certainly been that, though in ways few could have foreseen. Ray Cooper III, the breakout star of the season -- and perhaps MMA’s breakout star of 2018, period -- bulldozed his way to the No. 1 seed on the strength of two resounding knockouts.