PFL co-founder Donn Davis isn’t forcing anybody to stay round.
Earlier this month, Davis introduced that he had granted Patricio Pitbull his launch after the previous Bellator titleholder expressed frustration over information that Bellator and all its fighters could be absorbed into the PFL model as one promotion going ahead.
Throughout a latest interview with MMA Combating, Davis spoke concerning the massive modifications coming to the PFL model over the following 12 months and the truth that some Bellator fighters might select to check free company moderately than stick round.
“I imagine sure [Patchy Mix will stay with PFL this year],” Davis mentioned. “I feel Patchy goes to be completely satisfied, I feel Corey Anderson goes to be completely satisfied, I feel fighters are going to be very, very completely satisfied. 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 jail camp, that is alternative camp. So if fighters don’t need to be right here they usually imagine they will do higher elsewhere, it doesn’t assist us to have them right here. It doesn’t assist us. Now we have a pipeline of unbelievable 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 resulting from 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 Sensible Cage, but it surely definitely feels like retaining Combine’s companies is a high precedence for the PFL brass.
“Patchy is a star. We love him. I would like him right here. Every other fighter, we wish him right here. Am I tremendous assured that this noise is a blip and this noise will go away? I’m. However may there be one other fighter that’s sad and needs to go? There is likely to be and we’ll accommodate that.”
Combine is 20-1 in his blended martial arts profession and is at the moment sitting on a seven-fight win streak. His final look contained in the cage got here at Bellator Champions Sequence: Paris in Could 2024 the place he defeated Magomed Magomedov by way of unanimous choice.
