2023 PFL 8: New York Ceremonial Weigh Ins on the The Theater at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis, New York, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. (Cooper Neill / PFL)
The PFL’s $1 million greenback tournaments are a factor of the previous, however a modified model of their event format lives on.
On Wednesday, league officers introduced their 2025 World Event, that includes a grand prix format and eight weight lessons. That’s really two greater than the PFL has beforehand featured, although the prize cash to the winner has dropped – on high of present/win cash all through the season, every event champion will earn $500,000 U.S.
A number of the adjustments have been beforehand reported by journalist Al Zullino.
As an alternative of the “season” format and factors system beforehand employed by the PFL, the 2025 World Event might be a grand prix model, win and transfer ahead setup. The event will run April via August, a way more compact schedule than earlier years. Semi-finals happen in June.
New to the PFL event format is the middleweight division, which was beforehand omitted when the league’s season featured simply six weight lessons. Additionally featured for the primary time is the bantamweight division.
Ladies’s flyweight stays the one girls’s division featured. In earlier years, each girls’s light-weight (the Kayla Harrison period) and featherweight have been included. Flyweight changed featherweight within the event format final yr.
Notably, the PFL has each Larissa Pacheco and Cris Cyborg beneath contract, two of the largest girls’s 145lb stars on the planet.
No athletes have been introduced for the PFL 2025 World Event, although 64 are anticipated to participate, with a complete of $20 million in purses/prize cash on the desk. The primary of 10 occasions kicks off on April 3, 2025; three championship playing cards shut the present on August 1, 15, and 21.
