Former UFC middleweight Bryan Battle has signed with the Professional Fighters League. Battle missed weight at UFC 319 for the second straight fight and was released by the promotion. Battle appeared at a Dirty Boxing event a week after his release from the UFC. Battle beat his overmatched opponent. He was soon picked up by […]
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PFL draws 356K viewers on ESPN
The Professional Fighters League drew just 356K on Thursday night per Programming Insider. The telecast aired the finals of the Heavyweight, Lightweight and Middleweight Divisions. The telecast drew 0.08 in the A18-49 which is estimated at just over 100K viewers. Notably, the lead-in on Thursday was the Little League World Series which overran its scheduled […]
PFL announces July 26 event in Cape Town
The PFL announced that its next big event will be in Cape Town, South Africa on July 26th. The card will be headlined by 2024 PFL World Champion Dakota Ditcheva taking on Sumiko Inaba and Johnny Eblen defending his PFL Middleweight title against Costello van Steenis. The event will take place at GrandWest Arena in […]
PFL announces 2025 World Tournament
A day after releasing the statement that Bellator would be no more, the PFL announced its new 2025 World Tournament featuring eight weight classes, each with eight world-class fighters to claim the title of PFL Champion. According to the press release, the tournament starts in April, with semi-finals in June, and finals in August. All […]
Ditcheva leads PFL $1M champions
The PFL Championships took place on Friday in Saudi Arabia and women’s flyweight Dakota Ditcheva showed her dominance in the women’s flyweight division as her star continues to ascend. Ditcheva took out former UFC women’s flyweight contender Talia Santos with a body shot in the second round of their championship fight. Ditcheva celebrated by putting […]