PFL co-founder Donn Davis isn’t forcing anybody to stay round.
Throughout a latest interview with MMA Combating, Davis spoke concerning the huge adjustments coming to the PFL model over the following yr and the truth that some Bellator fighters could select to check free company slightly than stick round.
“I believe yes [Patchy Mix will stay with PFL this year],” Davis mentioned. “I feel Patchy goes to be pleased, I feel Corey Anderson goes to be pleased, I feel fighters are going to be very, very pleased. However as soon as once more, in the event that they’re not, we’re going to assist them get the answer they need that’s not right here.
“This isn’t MMA prison camp, this is opportunity camp. So if fighters don’t want to be here and they believe they can do better elsewhere, it doesn’t help us to have them here. It doesn’t help us. We have a pipeline of incredible fighters.”
Davis decided to maintain patchy combine in PFL
Combine, the final man to carry the Bellator bantamweight belt, requested for his outright launch from the PFL attributable to inactivity. Now that the PFL is merging its roster with Bellator, there’s no phrase but on whether or not or not Combine will stick round to compete contained in the Good Cage, but it surely definitely feels like retaining Combine’s providers is a prime precedence for the PFL brass.
“Patchy is a star. We love him. I want him here. Any other fighter, we want him here. Am I super confident that this noise is a blip and this noise will go away? I am. But might there be another fighter that is unhappy and wants to go? There might be and we’ll accommodate that.”
Combine is 20-1 in his combined martial arts profession and is presently sitting on a seven-fight win streak. His final look contained in the cage got here at Bellator Champions Sequence: Paris in Might 2024 the place he defeated Magomed Magomedov by way of unanimous determination.
