It’ll be slim pickings.
Skilled Fighters League (PFL) star Dakota Ditcheva secured the most important win of her profession this weekend (Fri., Nov. 29, 2024) when she demolished former Ulitmate Combating Championship (UFC) title challenger Taila Santos within the second spherical by way of vicious physique shot to win the PFL Ladies’s Flyweight championship (and $1 million) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (watch highlights).
After her large 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 so far.
“I do not know, we have not spoken about it an excessive amount of with PFL,” Ditcheva stated when requested about her future. “I believe it is tough as a result of for me, I simply beat the highest woman that’s on the market. So, in case you put me again within the match, I am gonna get extra stick for combating the identical women and folks which might be decrease degree.
“So, does it make sense to do this with somebody that is like, I really feel like I usher in a number of consideration and stuff like that, so I really feel possibly a brilliant struggle may go well with a 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 Ladies’s Flyweight season, Ditcheva was criticized for being matched up with less competition as a substitute of being examined early—like the opposite girls 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 straightforward.
However her concern about subsequent 12 months has advantage as a result of there is not anybody else apart from present Bellator champion Liz Carmouche and a rematch with Santos.
Possibly PFL can signal somebody from Ladies’s promotion, Invicta, or get fortunate with a UFC fighter testing free company, however apart from that, the longer term is bleak.
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