Virtually precisely one yr after his most up-to-date look in Bellator MMA, Sabah Homasi remains to be ready on the corporate to pay him again for medical payments after accidents sustained in his battle towards Levan Chokheli.
Homasi first spoke publicly concerning the state of affairs on social media in April, writing, “Any fighters that obtained caught up within the PFL/Bellator merger that haven’t been reimbursed for surgical procedures and hospitalization from a battle or is it simply me?”
A number of sources advised MMA Combating that Homasi remains to be awaiting the total cost on these medical payments, with round $12,000 nonetheless owned plus curiosity out of the $32,000 invoice he absorbed in bills.
PFL has not responded to MMA Combating’s request for an announcement concerning Homasi’s ongoing state of affairs.
“I fractured my orbital. Went from the venue to the hospital in order that they knew the whole lot that was incorrect,” Homasi advised MMA Mania again in April. “They requested me if I used to be going to do surgical procedure in Eire and I stated, ‘No. I’m going to fly residence and do surgical procedure with my docs again residence.’
“I got here residence, we noticed my physician. I’ve a date for surgical procedure, proper? Subsequent factor you understand, they name my physician and ask him if he can postpone surgical procedure for 2 [to] three weeks. I stated, ‘Completely not. I’ve to go and function.’”
When addressing the state of affairs after Homasi went public with the medical payments that stay unpaid, PFL co-owner Donn Davis acknowledged that duty fell on Paramount, who owned Bellator previous to promoting to PFL in late 2023.
“That was Paramount not paying,” Davis advised the Weighing In podcast. “We labored to get him paid. All [that] occurred earlier than we purchased it. We’re attempting to remain low-key as a result of that’s who we’re. Paramount didn’t pay. We’re working to get someone who owes him to pay him.
“A number of these fighters and managers don’t even perceive what they don’t perceive. These aren’t our payments. These are the previous firm’s payments.”
Issues could get even stickier within the close to future as Paramount is presently set to be bought to Skydance Media in a large $8 billion deal for the leisure firm.
In recent times, Paramount has struggled to keep up its grip on the leisure market after the corporate was hit onerous within the wake of duel strikes from writers and actors that introduced manufacturing to a halt for a number of months. Paramount’s streaming service Paramount+ has additionally failed to achieve as a lot traction as opponents, with 71.2 million customers in comparison with Max from Warner Bros. Discovery with 99.6 million subscribers as of Might, with all streamers nonetheless taking part in catch-up to Netflix’s greater than 277 million subscribers worldwide.
Sadly, whereas Paramount discovered a lifeline with the sale anticipated to Skydance International, Homasi remains to be caught ready for cost for his medical payments with no indication on when he’ll get reimbursed.
