Larissa Pacheco, PFL 10: Championships on the Hulu Theater at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York, New York, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (Cooper Neill / PFL)
The Skilled Fighters League is reportedly halving the prize cash awarded to their event winners this coming season.
Since its inception in 2017 and launch the next 12 months, the PFL has dished out $1 million U.S. to winners of its six yearly tournaments, that includes 5 males’s and one ladies’s weight courses. Nevertheless, as first reported by veteran MMA journalist Al Zullino, the prize cash in newer PFL contracts is listed as $500,000 U.S. — precisely half of the earlier purse.
In earlier years, the “one million” purse for successful a PFL World championship included the winner’s purse from the common season, reasonably than being a million {dollars} on high of the cash a fighter had gained all year long. In 2025, the $500,000 will come on high of a fighter’s common season pay, given it’s listed as “an additional amount.”
Whereas this looks like an apparent minimize, the PFL is including bonus cash as an incentive to fighters in 2025. Title challengers will earn a $50,000 U.S. bonus on high of their purse, plus an extra $50,000 win bonus ought to they unseat the champ. Champions will earn an extra $100,000 on high of their purse (the purse set as equal to what they made of their title problem), with a $100,000 win bonus.
An extra report by Uncrowned notes that the league is ready to take away its points-style format, switching over to a grand prix type system extra in step with conventional MMA tournaments.
League officers have but to formally introduced the adjustments. The PFL’s subsequent occasion comes later this month, with Champions Collection: Highway to Dubai, a present that might fall underneath the Bellator banner (although the Bellator title has reasonably notably been dropped from promotional supplies).
