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February 18, 2025
The field is set for
Professional Fighters League’s upcoming women’s flyweight
tournament — but one notable name is missing from the lineup.
The promotion announced the eight-woman roster for the 2025 World
Flyweight Tournament on Tuesday, and it includes quite a few
familiar faces. However, 2024 flyweight champion Dakota
Ditcheva will not be part of the bracket. That likely means
that Ditcheva, who is one of the PFL’s top stars, will be part of
one of the promotion’s high-profile events in the coming
months.
The tournament roster will include six fighters who competed in the
PFL season format last year (Taila
Santos, Liz
Carmouche, Kana
Watanabe, Juliana
Velasquez, Jena Bishop
and Ilara
Joanne) and two newcomers (Elora Dana
and Diana
Avsaragova).
Santos, a former UFC flyweight title challenger, fell to Ditcheva
via second-round TKO at the PFL Championships last year. Carmouche,
who held 125-pound gold in Bellator and challenged for the
flyweight and bantamweight titles in the UFC, fell to Santos in the
flyweight semifinals last year. Bishop was the other postseason
participant in 2024.
The 2025 PFL World Tournament will begin with events on April 3,
April 11, April 18 and May 1 at the backlot of Universal Studios
Florida in Orlando. The winner of each bracket will receive a
$500,000 bonus, and the tournament as a whole will provide payouts
of more than $20 million. Events will be broadcast on the family of
ESPN platforms in the United States.
Tournament matchups will be revealed on March 11 as part of a
special bracket reveal show.
Flyweight Division – 2025 PFL World Tournament
Taila
Santos – Brazil
Liz
Carmouche – United States
Kana
Watanabe – Japan
Juliana
Velasquez – Brazil
Jena
Bishop – United States
Elora
Dana – Brazil
Ilara
Joanne – Brazil
Diana
Avsaragova – Russia