{"id":42126,"date":"2025-08-04T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42126\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:42:08","slug":"thad-jean-says-mmas-best-fighters-are-going-to-come-from-pfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42126\/","title":{"rendered":"Thad Jean Says MMA’s Best Fighters Are Going to Come from PFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Atlantic City, NJ \u2014 Welterweight Thad Jean has been one of the biggest stories of the PFL World Tournament.<\/p>\n

On Friday at PFL Atlantic City, Jean concluded an impressive run through the tournament with a very storybook ending.<\/p>\n

Originally, the PFL Challenger Series alum wasn\u2019t even expected to take part in the tournament. But MMA is a wild sport, full of injuries, withdrawals, and short-notice opportunities. When Florim Zendeli withdrew from a bout with Mukhamed Berkhamov<\/a>, in stepped the undefeated Jean.<\/p>\n

Three wins later, including victories over Jason Jackson<\/a> and Logan Storley, and Thad Jean is the PFL World Tournament welterweight winner. And his sights remain high moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want every single body. I don\u2019t give a damn who\u2019s tough. I\u2019m tough. I\u2019m tough,\u201d exclaimed Jean (11-0) following his win over Storley, which saw him capture the tournament championship and half a million dollars. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you know me, but I don\u2019t care who you are, what your name is, what your record is. Once you go into the cage with me, it\u2019s me against you. The Silverback is coming out, and I\u2019m coming out better each and every time. I\u2019m only going to be getting better. This is just the beginning. I\u2019m only going to get better. It\u2019s my eleventh fight. My eleventh fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m only going to get better. That\u2019s all I have to say. I\u2019m only going to get better. I want that. I want everybody. I\u2019m not playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jean is a new, fresh face in the PFL, which has had its ups and downs since its debut in 2018. Born out of the ashes of the World Series of Fighting, the PFL has seen early stars like Ray Cooper III, Lance Palmer, and later Kayla Harrison give way to a new crop, Dakota Ditcheva and Thad Jean among them.<\/p>\n

Thad Jean for one likes where the PFL is at.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are seeing the PFL. Like I said, only six years in. UFC<\/a> has been here how long? Since the 1990s, right? Just wait on it. Just wait on it,\u201d stated Jean. \u201cBest fighters are going to come out of here, and if we ever do a little crossover, we\u2019re winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the full PFL Atlantic City post-fight press conference with Thad Jean above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlantic City, NJ \u2014 Welterweight Thad Jean has been one of the biggest stories of the PFL World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,12059,4736,786,15810,15803,11877,15805,801,10280,785,2843,15808,5963,15804,15809,85,15806,787,15807],"class_list":["post-42126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bellator","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-fighting","tag-gsp","tag-invicta","tag-jon-jones","tag-lfa","tag-martial-arts","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-one-fc","tag-pfl","tag-rizin","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-sports","tag-titan-fc","tag-ufc","tag-wsof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42126","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=42126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}