Heading into the 2023 PFL season, light heavyweight Josh Silveira (13-2 MMA, 6-2 PFL) had a goal in mind: Get back to the playoffs. Upon earning a PFL deal during the 2022 Challenger Series, he stopped Marthin Hamlet (12-5 MMA, 6-4 PFL) with a first-round knockout in PFL 4 before entering the postseason as an alternate and dropping a unanimous decision to Omari Akhmedov (24-8-1 MMA, 3-2 PFL) in the postseason.
Thanks to an undefeated regular season a year ago, a playoff berth was his. He parlayed a pair of first-round stoppages during the regular year into a No.