Briton Ditcheva to fight on 'PFL Champions Series'

PFL flyweight world champion Dakota Ditcheva will not fight in the 2025 tournament, the PFL chairman Donn Davis has announced.

Manchester's Ditcheva, 26, made history last year when she became the first British woman to win a major MMA world title and win the PFL's flyweight tournament.

However the PFL (Professional Fighters League) has since announced sweeping changes to its format, which includes removing the $1m prize money and world title status from their US-based tournaments.

As a result, Ditcheva will fight on the newly formed 'PFL Champions Series' which will get underway in July.

Ditcheva has already said she wants to fight on home soil in Manchester next, but it is unclear at the moment how her opponent will be chosen.

The PFL announced the flyweights that would compete in the 2025 tournament, with most of them having appeared in last year's series.

Davis did not reveal any other names that would fight on the 'PFL Champions Series' but did say it was where "PFL tournament champions and Bellator champions come to fight", suggesting the 2025 PFL world champions would face the most recent Bellator title holders, like Usman Nurmagomedov, before the brand was discontinued in January.