#6 seeded Ray Cooper III (20-7) advanced over #3 Sadibou Sy (8-6-1) after a majority draw at PFL 2019, Playoffs 1. The fights went down at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

The scorecard in the bout read 20-18, 19-19, and 19-19 in favor of Cooper. Cooper won the tiebreaker (all three judges chose Cooper as the fighter who had the better overall performance) over the Swede in the short two-round fight earning him another fight in the semi finals, which he won by KO in the second round.