The Professional Fighters League kicks off on Thursday on NBC Sports Network and Facebook Watch as it seeks to reinvent itself with a season-like year culminating in a bracket-style playoff and $10 million pool of prize money for the champions for each respective weight division. The PFL will hold its “regular season” events this summer […]
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Brian Stann joins PFL to lead Fighter and Competition/Rule Committee
The Professional Fighters’ League announced that Brian Stann has joined the promotion on the Fighter Competition/Rules Committee. Via PFL press release: The Professional Fighters League (“PFL”) today announced that former MMA star and veteran Brian Stann will help lead the league’s 2018 Fighter and Competition/Rules Committee, bringing his expertise to the first “true sports format” […]
PFL announces uniform policy for upcoming season
The Professional Fighters League has announced a uniform policy which will begin at the start with its first event this June. Unlike the UFC’s uniform policy, it will allow up to 2 sponsors in designated areas of the uniform. MMA Fighting first reported the news of the uniform policy. Sponsors will be allowed to be […]
PFL finds new TV deal with familiar partner
The Professional Fighter’s League is back with NBC Sports Network as part of a one year revenue sharing deal according to John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal. Previously the World Series of Fighting, the organization went through a regime change and renamed itself the PFL. This year it will offer a league setup with […]
Former fighter threatens to sue PFL
MMA Fighting reports that former Professional Fighter’s League fighter Bruce Boyington is threatening legal action after he was informed by the PFL that he would not be included in the company’s 12-man lightweight division 2018 season. Boyington is 14-11 and has lost his last 3 fights. He claims to have had a four-fight contract with […]