As soon as upon a time, Dakota Ditcheva was fuming over being compelled to take a seat on the sidelines.
In April, the 2024 PFL ladies’s flyweight champion vented her frustration after the PFL uncared for to e-book her for one more combat in a well timed trend. Not lengthy after, it was reported that she can be returning to the Sensible Cage on July 19 when the Skilled Fighters League launches its inaugural occasion in Cape City in South Africa.
There, Ditcheva will face 8-1 standout Sumiko Inaba.
Throughout a latest interview with MMA Junkie, Ditcheva revealed that her feedback earlier this 12 months precipitated some awkwardness with the PFL brass, nevertheless it all finally labored out in her favor.
“This sport takes you locations you most likely wouldn’t have the ability to go to if it didn’t have organizations like this taking it world wide,” Ditcheva mentioned. “It’s important to be very grateful with the chance you get in MMA and with the ability to be co-main occasion on a card like this to make historical past, it’s loopy to me. I suppose the wait this 12 months was form of price it.”
Dakota Ditcheva Assured her bookings with the PFL shall be rather more constant going ahead
Ditcheva later mentioned that her communication with these behind the scenes on the PFL has improved, and she or he now has a greater understanding of the inside workings. That’s left her assured that issues, not less than for her, shall be a bit extra constant.
In actual fact, she’s already eyeing a possible conflict with the winner of this 12 months’s flyweight event.
“I haven’t actually bought a lot route but,” Ditcheva mentioned. “I do know they’re going to preserve me busy. They must. You will note me combat once more this 12 months for certain. … I’m hungry. How they’ve one other champ this 12 months once I received it final 12 months? They need to be difficult me, not all preventing one another to get one other belt.
“Why am I not in that event defending my belt? It simply makes me hungry. This combat isn’t for a belt, so I’m nonetheless going to go along with the identical starvation, however I’m going to make a press release to everybody that the belt they’re preventing for this 12 months ought to be mine, not theirs.”
With Ditcheva’s star shortly rising, it’s unclear how lengthy the Brit will stick round earlier than trying to take a look at her mettle contained in the Octagon.
