2023 PFL 8: New York Ceremonial Weigh Ins on the The Theater at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis, New York, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. (Cooper Neill / PFL)
The PFL’s $1 million greenback tournaments are a factor of the previous, however a modified model of their match format lives on.
On Wednesday, league officers introduced their 2025 World Event, that includes a grand prix format and eight weight lessons. That’s truly two greater than the PFL has beforehand featured, although the prize cash to the winner has dropped – on high of present/win cash all through the season, every match champion will earn $500,000 U.S.
Among the adjustments had been beforehand reported by journalist Al Zullino.
As an alternative of the “season” format and factors system beforehand employed by the PFL, the 2025 World Event might be a grand prix fashion, win and transfer ahead setup. The match will run April by way of August, a way more compact schedule than earlier years. Semi-finals happen in June.
New to the PFL match format is the middleweight division, which was beforehand omitted when the league’s season featured simply six weight lessons. Additionally featured for the primary time is the bantamweight division.
Ladies’s flyweight stays the one ladies’s division featured. In earlier years, each ladies’s light-weight (the Kayla Harrison period) and featherweight had been included. Flyweight changed featherweight within the match format final 12 months.
Notably, the PFL has each Larissa Pacheco and Cris Cyborg below contract, two of the most important ladies’s 145lb stars on the planet.
No athletes have been introduced for the PFL 2025 World Event, although 64 are anticipated to participate, with a complete of $20 million in purses/prize cash on the desk. The primary of 10 occasions kicks off on April 3, 2025; three championship playing cards shut the present on August 1, 15, and 21.
