Denis Goltsov is heading to his second straight PFL championship.
The 34-year-old Russian and 2023 PFL heavyweight runner-up made easy work of Tim Johnson on Friday in the main event of PFL 7, bulldozing over Johnson with a ground-and-pound assault to punch his ticket to the 2024 heavyweight finals.
The bracket’s No. 1 seed, Goltsov (35-8) tripped Johnson to the mat off an early cage clinch then barraged him with punches from top position...