It will be slim pickings.
Skilled Fighters League (PFL) star Dakota Ditcheva secured the largest win of her profession this weekend (Fri., Nov. 29, 2024) when she demolished former Ulitmate Preventing Championship (UFC) title challenger Taila Santos within the second spherical through vicious physique shot to win the PFL Girls’s Flyweight championship (and $1 million) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (watch highlights).
After her huge win, Ditcheva caught up with talkSPORT and expressed some fear in regards to the 2025 season as a result of she had simply defeated her hardest check thus far.
“I do not know, we have not spoken about it an excessive amount of with PFL,” Ditcheva mentioned when requested about her future. “I believe it is troublesome as a result of for me, I simply beat the highest lady that’s on the market. So, in the event you put me again within the match, I am gonna get extra stick for combating the identical ladies and folks which might be decrease degree.
“So, does it make sense to try this with somebody that is like, I really feel like I herald loads of consideration and stuff like that, so I really feel possibly a brilliant combat would possibly swimsuit a little bit bit higher, however then, is anybody going to observe the season with out me in it? I do not know. We’ll see what occurs.”
All through the 2024 Girls’s Flyweight season, Ditcheva was criticized for being matched up with much less competitors as an alternative of being examined early—like the opposite ladies within the match. On the finish of the day, it did not matter as a result of she beat up the hardest fighter within the bracket and made it look simple.
However her concern about subsequent yr has advantage as a result of there is not anybody else in addition to present Bellator champion Liz Carmouche and a rematch with Santos.
Perhaps PFL can signal somebody from Girls’s promotion, Invicta, or get fortunate with a UFC fighter testing free company, however aside from that, the long run is bleak.
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