After smashing her approach by Taila Santos on the PFL World Championship in Riyadh, Dakota Ditcheva can’t assist however surprise what’s left for her to perform in 2025.
‘Harmful’ ran the desk throughout this 12 months’s inaugural PFL girls’s flyweight event, incomes 4 straight finishes, together with a second-round TKO in opposition to former UFC title challenger Taila Santos on the promotion’s closing occasion of the 12 months in Saudi Arabia.
Talking with talkSPORT following her million-dollar victory, Ditcheva expressed some concern over probably competing in subsequent 12 months’s event contemplating she’s already dispatched her hardest take a look at.
“I don’t know, we haven’t spoken about it an excessive amount of with PFL,” Ditcheva mentioned when requested about her future. “I feel it’s troublesome as a result of for me, I simply beat the highest woman that’s on the market. So, should you put me again within the event, I’m gonna get extra stick for preventing the identical ladies and other people which are decrease stage.
“So, does it make sense to do this with somebody that’s like, I really feel like I herald a variety of consideration and stuff like that, so I really feel possibly a brilliant combat would possibly go well with somewhat bit higher, however then, is anybody going to observe the season with out me in it? I don’t know. We’ll see what occurs.”
Dakota Ditcheva may face the identical wrestle that Kayla Harrison did within the PFL
If the story sounds acquainted, that’s most likely as a result of two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison confronted the same wrestle throughout her time with the group. Harrison ran roughshod over a lot of the competitors, main many to criticize her for kicking round a bunch of cans reasonably than taking up the hardest fighters obtainable.
Hopefully, they may chorus from subjecting Ditcheva to the same destiny by signing some contemporary expertise to the flyweight pool forward of subsequent 12 months’s event as a result of, because it stands, there’s not a lot for Ditcheva or her followers to be enthusiastic about in 2025.