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Ever since the Professional Fighters League acquired Bellator MMA in November of 2023, it looked like the latter promotion was going to be living on borrowed time. This past week was one ripe with changes across the board for the PFL, which hosted five Bellator MMA events under the Bellator Champ...
Unbeaten Prospect Wants To Be The Youngest PFL Champion Much of the discourse surrounding the PFL’s upcoming Road to Dubai: Champions Series event later this month has centred around the main event between Usman Nurmagomedov and Paul Hughes. The promotion has leaned heavily into the “Dagestan vs....
Khabib’s Ongoing Battle Against The Irish The build up to the PFL’s upcoming Road to Dubai Champions Series event on January 25th received a huge boost last week when former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, who’s cousin and student Usman Nurmagomedov will face Ireland’s Paul Hughes i...
While the start of the PFL’s 2025 regular season is still a few months away, the MMA promotion is already making headlines ahead as its offseason continues. On the first Monday of the new year, President Donn Davis made a major announcement concerning legal strikes in contests. After the promoti...
It’s been a while since we’ve seen Julia Budd suit up in action for an MMA fight. To find the last time that the former Bellator MMA Women’s Featherweight Champion set foot inside of a cage, you’d have to travel back in time to the night of June 16, 2023. That late spring evening, Budd […]
A war of words has begun ahead of one of the biggest fights of 2025 as Paul Hughes fires back at Khabib Nurmagomedov following the former UFC champion’s comments. As Usman Nurmagomedov (18-0, 1 NC) prepares to put his Bellator lightweight title on the line against Ireland’s Paul Hughes (13-1) on ...
Highlights From A Massive Year in the PFL The PFL have picked their top 5 fights of 2024. The self-styled “co-leader” of the worldwide mixed martial arts scene wrapped up their calendar year earlier this month as they crowned six new PFL Europe champions in Lyon, France. 2024 has not been without...
$400,000 On The Line The PFL Europe 2024 Championships draws to a close this Saturday with four divisional winners set to be crowned PFL Europe Champions and pocket a cool $100,000 (USD) each in prize money. The event goes down in Lyon, France and will be headlined by a fascinating matchup betwee...
The 2024 PFL Europe Tournament comes to a close in France, as some of the top mixed marital arts athletes in the world converge on the city of Lyon for a chance to catapult themselves into the spotlight in next year’s PFL $1 million tournament. Taking the headlining spot are welterweight standout...
$400,000 On The Line The PFL Europe 2024 Championships draws to a close this Saturday with four divisional winners set to be crowned PFL Europe Champions and pocket a cool $100,000 (USD) each in prize money. The event goes down in Lyon, France and will be headlined by a fascinating matchup betwee...
Dovlet Yagshimuradov has put Turkmenistan on the map. Embarking on a fruitful run throughout 2024, Yagshimuradov nabbed his place in the PFL 2024 Championships with a unanimous decision victory over 2022’s bracket winner, Rob Wilkinson. Walking into the finals of his very first promotional tourna...
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend has been a light one for the sport of MMA in terms of fights taking place. Other than the PFL World Championships taking place Friday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, it’s been a slow few days. While most of America was sitting down to break bread at the dinner tabl...
Dakota Ditcheva is now one of the best flyweight competitors on planet Earth. In just three short years since beginning her professional career back in 2021, Ditcheva has just won her first ever major world title at the PFL 2024 Championships. In the show’s co-main event, she went up against her...
$6 Million On The Line The lives of six fighters will be changed forever this Friday as the PFL World Championship goes down in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The main card is comprised of six high-stakes fights, each one the final decider in the PFL global tournament and carrying a cash prize of $1 milli...
This Friday, two of the best featherweights on the planet will clash in the main event of the Professional Fighter’s League 2024 Championship. Rounding out a night packed with five other title bouts, Brendan Loughnane and Timur Khizriev will square off for the chance at attaining not only life-c...
From The Mayadeen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Professional Fighters League’s spectacular 2024 season comes to head with a six fight world championship main card, ranging from women’s flyweight to men’s heavyweight. From skilled veterans to young, hungry up-and-comers, the promotion’s tournament ...