‘This Isn’t An MMA Prison Camp’

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 can be absorbed into the PFL model as one promotion going ahead.

Throughout a current interview with MMA Preventing, Davis spoke concerning the large modifications coming to the PFL model over the following yr and the truth that some Bellator fighters could select to check free company somewhat than stick round.

“I consider sure [Patchy Mix will stay with PFL this year],” Davis stated. “I believe Patchy goes to be joyful, I believe Corey Anderson goes to be joyful, I believe fighters are going to be very, very joyful. 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 wish to be right here they usually consider they’ll do higher elsewhere, it doesn’t assist us to have them right here. It doesn’t assist us. We’ve a pipeline of unimaginable 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 on account of 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 Good Cage, however it actually feels like retaining Combine’s providers is a high precedence for the PFL brass.

“Patchy is a star. We love him. I would like him right here. Some 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 desires to go? There may be and we’ll accommodate that.”

Combine is 20-1 in his combined martial arts profession and is presently sitting on a seven-fight win streak. His final look contained in the cage got here at Bellator Champions Collection: Paris in Might 2024 the place he defeated Magomed Magomedov through unanimous resolution.