Whereas they’re technically the second-biggest battle promotion in the USA, the PFL has a protracted technique to go earlier than incomes respect from each followers and fighters.
In November 2023, the Skilled Fighters League made a giant splash on this planet of MMA by shopping for Bellator, a fledgling group that had launched the world to Eddie Alvarez, Michael Chandler, the Pitbull brothers, Michael ‘Venom’ Web page, and lots of extra. Anybody signed to Bellator on the time of the merger was instantly folded into the PFL roster.
That features present Bellator mild heavyweight champion Corey ‘Overtime’ Anderson.
A former Final Fighter winner, Anderson captured his first world title in March after scoring a unanimous resolution victory over Karl Moore at Bellator Champions Sequence 1 in Belfast to say the 205-pound belt. Since then, ‘Overtime’ has been left in limbo ready for the powers that be within the PFL to resolve when or if he’ll battle for them once more.
Throughout a latest interview with MMA Combating, Anderson didn’t maintain again whereas speaking in regards to the PFL’s lackluster management and their lack of expertise in regards to the battle sport.
“With Donn [Davis] and Pete [Murray], I don’t know what their plans are,” Anderson stated. “At the same time, from the outside looking in it looks like guys that haven’t really spent much time in fighting, so they don’t really know what they’re doing at the moment. They’re trying to make business moves. They’re good at Wall Street-type stuff and stocks and making money. But that’s a different game to the fight game, so I don’t know their plans.”
Donn Davis is the co-founder of chairman of the Skilled Fighters League whereas Pete Murray serves because the promotion’s CEO.
Corey Anderson isn’t the one fighter annoyed by the PFL’s decision-making
Corey Anderson isn’t the one PFL fighter annoyed over the shortage of course. In November, Patchy Combine didn’t maintain again after the promotion canceled its Bellator Champions Sequence occasion in Paris scheduled for November 16. Combine was anticipated to sq. off with Leandro Higo on the occasion.
“I’ve been training my ass off for the last half of year for nothing,” Combine wrote on X. “This is frustrating in the prime of my career and I’ve had my fight in November cancelled? Then now again I’m being told I’m off January Dubai card? I am the best in the world and I want to fight to prove it.”
Patricio Pitbull was additionally left sitting on the sidelines after hoping to compete a number of occasions in 2024.
“I haven’t fought since February,” Pitbull posted. “I wanted to fight 3x this year, but I was told I’d have to wait until December 31st and found out online my opponent would fight someone else. Then they had a replacement, I bring people over, spend more money with the camp and there’s no fight.”
For a corporation that claims to place fighters first, the PFL actually appears to be doing the precise reverse.
