Regardless of her spotless skilled MMA report, Dakota Ditcheva admits she has struggled to consider in her talents as a fighter.
The 24-year-old flyweight is now two fights into her PFL journey after a vicious first-round knockout of Katherine Corogenes on the prelims of 2022 PFL Championships at Madison Sq. Backyard. Ditcheva (7-0) has completed each of her PFL opponents within the first spherical, however revealed she has needed to learn to belief in what she will be able to do contained in the cage.
“I really feel like I battle generally believing in myself,” Ditcheva instructed reporters on the post-fight news conference (via MMA Sucka). “Like, you see me successful on a regular basis, nevertheless it’s not about successful, it’s about believing in my means. I really feel like going over to ATT (American High Workforce) and being round a workforce that’s such high-level, and as quickly as I walked in that fitness center, each coach in that fitness center believed in my talents and what I might do.
“I’ve actually bought to some extent now the place I’m not simply listening to my coaches say like, ‘You’re actually good.’ Principally, you can also make it to the highest. It doesn’t matter how many individuals inform me that till I’ve bought it inside myself. Like, I’ve nonetheless bought the identical little bit of doubt in myself. … To go on the market and get a win like that and be capable to present myself, like I’m not doing it for anybody else. I’m doing it as a result of I wish to show to myself, that I’m worthy of being right here.”
Already dwelling as much as her nickname “Harmful” with six finishes in seven professional fights, Ditcheva has the potential to be a robust drive within the PFL as her confidence continues to develop, and the inner questions subside.
The one exterior query going ahead can be how the PFL plans to advertise her because it doesn’t at present host a girls’s flyweight division in its common season format.
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