PFL flyweight world champion Dakota Ditcheva won’t battle within the 2025 event, the PFL chairman Donn Davis has introduced.
Manchester’s Ditcheva, 26, made historical past final yr when she turned the primary British lady to win a major MMA world title and win the PFL’s flyweight event.
Nevertheless the PFL (Skilled Fighters League) has since introduced sweeping changes to its format, which incorporates eradicating the $1m prize cash and world title standing from their US-based tournaments.
In consequence, Ditcheva will battle on the newly fashioned ‘PFL Champions Sequence’ which is able to get underway in July.
Ditcheva has already stated she desires to fight on home soil in Manchester subsequent, however it’s unclear in the meanwhile how her opponent might be chosen.
The PFL introduced the flyweights that may compete within the 2025 event, with most of them having appeared in final yr’s sequence.
Davis didn’t reveal another names that may battle on the ‘PFL Champions Sequence’ however did say it was the place “PFL event champions and Bellator champions come to battle”, suggesting the 2025 PFL world champions would face the newest Bellator title holders, like Usman Nurmagomedov, earlier than the model was discontinued in January.