John Martin announced his resignation from the Professional Fighters League less than a year into his tenure. It also comes less than two months after merging with Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions. In his farewell on social media, he lauded Nakisa Bidarian stating that “he is the natural person to lead this next chapter.” Martin […]
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MERGER PFL and MVP combine
Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian’s Most Valuable Promotions and Professional Fighters League are merging according to a joint press release sent out Thursday morning. The newfound company will be backed by Founding Investors 885 Capital and Knighthead Capital Management. MVP has been promoting boxing events with its product streaming on Netflix as well as ESPN. […]
PFL announces New York event July 31st
The Professional Fighters League announced on Tuesday that it will hold an event in upstate New York on July 31st. The show will be headlined by Usman Nurmogomedov and Dakota Ditcheva. Nurmagomedov will take on Archie Colgan in the main event of the PFL New York event at the UBS Arena in Belmont Park, New […]
PFL announces media deal with DAZN
The Professional Fighters League and DAZN announced on Tuesday it has agreed to an exclusive multi-year partnership renewal in Central Europe. The deal will bring live coverage of PFL Global events, PFL MENA and PFL Africa to fans in Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxemberg. The deal began this past weekend with PFL Chicago. Details on […]
Ngannou set to face Lins on Rousey-Carano undercard
After the public exit of Francis Ngannou from the PFL, he has signed on to fight Philippe Lins as part of the Ronda Rousey-Gina Carano card on Netflix. #NgannouVsLins joins #RouseyVsCarano on @Netflix May 16th!How’s THAT for a bamf laden double headliner? That’s what happens when you put fighters and fans ahead of shareholders @MostVpromotions […]