{"id":105058,"date":"2025-08-29T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105058\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:12:07","slug":"former-bellator-champ-vadim-nemkov-re-signs-with-pfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105058\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bellator champ Vadim Nemkov re-signs with PFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PFL has retained the services of one of its pound-for-pound best fighters in Vadim Nemkov.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion announced this week that Nemkov (18-2), who completed his previous contract with a first-round submission of Tim Johnson in January, has inked a new multi-fight deal with the company.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Nemkov, 33, holds wins over the likes of Yoel Romero, Corey Anderson, Phil Davis and Ryan Bader. He is a pupil of legendary heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko and hasn&#8217;t tasted defeat since April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hQHoS2-h6po\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ushatayka;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ushatayka<\/a>, Nemkov did have discussions with UFC during his free agency period, but claimed the offer he received was for roughly half the money proposed by PFL.<\/p>\n<p>Nemkov said his contract spans for two years, at which point he said he hopes his resume will lead to a more lucrative deal.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/pfl\/2025\/08\/29\/former-bellator-champ-vadim-nemkov-re-signs-with-pfl\/85891259007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Bellator champ Vadim Nemkov re-signs with PFL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Former Bellator champ Vadim Nemkov re-signs with PFL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PFL has retained the services of one of its pound-for-pound best fighters in Vadim Nemkov. The promotion announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,5982,75597,786,785,75596,75595,85,75594,39910],"class_list":{"0":"post-105058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-corey-anderson","11":"tag-fedor-emelianenko","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-phil-davis","15":"tag-ryan-bader","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-vadim-nemkov","18":"tag-yoel-romero"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}