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BBC News
18-04-2025
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- BBC News
'Gutted' PFL champion Ditcheva calls for fight
Manchester fighter Dakota Ditcheva says she is "gutted" not to have any fight on the horizon in the 26, won the PFL's 2024 flyweight world title, but the PFL have since made sweeping changes to their events including downgrading the tournament will compete on the newly created 'PFL Champions Series' in 2025 and can only watch from afar as the PFL's other flyweights begin competing in the tournament this month."I'm gutted that I haven't had anything just yet," Ditcheva told MMA Junkie., external"I'm just like: Get me anything. Literally I get it's hard for PFL."They've put all the girls in the tournament. Now they have to find someone that's going to give me a good competition."Ditcheva has been told by the PFL she will likely fight at the end of the year against the tournament winner, having last fought in November."What if the champion doesn't end up coming out of the fight clean? What if they're injured?" Ditcheva said."Someone who has fought three times, do they want to fight me at the end of the year?"They might say, 'sorry, I'm injured, or I don't want to fight this year, I'll do it in January'. That's a whole year out for me. It's testing for sure, but something will come."Ditcheva is not the only PFL star to speak out about the scheduling, with several fighters demanding the securing of their release from the MMA promotion including Patricio Pitbull who subsequently signed for the Bellator middleweight champion Johnny Eblen posted on social media in February that he hadn't "heard a peep" about any Fabian Edwards, who lost to Eblen in his last outing in October, will fight in the first round of middleweight tournament on Friday and appealed to the PFL to get their best fighters booked."To see all those guys on the sidelines for a year or over a year, it's craziness. I just hope they can sort out what they need to sort out," Edwards said."I hope they fight all the guys soon. This is how we make our living. This is what we sacrifice everything for. Hopefully, they sort everything out."
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Briton Ditcheva to fight on 'PFL Champions Series'
PFL flyweight world champion Dakota Ditcheva will not fight in the 2025 tournament, the PFL chairman Donn Davis has announced. Manchester's Ditcheva, 26, made history last year when she became the first British woman to win a major MMA world title and win the PFL's flyweight tournament. However the PFL (Professional Fighters League) has since announced sweeping changes to its format, which includes removing the $1m prize money and world title status from their US-based tournaments. As a result, Ditcheva will fight on the newly formed 'PFL Champions Series' which will get underway in July. Ditcheva has already said she wants to fight on home soil in Manchester next, but it is unclear at the moment how her opponent will be chosen. The PFL announced the flyweights that would compete in the 2025 tournament, with most of them having appeared in last year's series. Davis did not reveal any other names that would fight on the 'PFL Champions Series' but did say it was where "PFL tournament champions and Bellator champions come to fight", suggesting the 2025 PFL world champions would face the most recent Bellator title holders, like Usman Nurmagomedov, before the brand was discontinued in January. Celebrating a world title with McDonald's Ditcheva v Shevchenko & Jones v Aspinall - 5 fights we want MMA schedule and results 2025 Watch every Born to Brawl episode Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport
BBC News
19-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Briton Ditcheva to fight on 'PFL Champions Series'
PFL flyweight world champion Dakota Ditcheva will not fight in the 2025 tournament, the PFL chairman Donn Davis has Ditcheva, 26, made history last year when she became the first British woman to win a major MMA world title and win the PFL's flyweight the PFL (Professional Fighters League) has since announced sweeping changes to its format, which includes removing the $1m prize money and world title status from their US-based a result, Ditcheva will fight on the newly formed 'PFL Champions Series' which will get underway in has already said she wants to fight on home soil in Manchester next, but it is unclear at the moment how her opponent will be PFL announced the flyweights that would compete in the 2025 tournament, with most of them having appeared in last year's did not reveal any other names that would fight on the 'PFL Champions Series' but did say it was where "PFL tournament champions and Bellator champions come to fight", suggesting the 2025 PFL world champions would face the most recent Bellator title holders, like Usman Nurmagomedov, before the brand was discontinued in January.
