{"id":625862,"date":"2026-04-23T14:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625862\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:23:09","slug":"pfl-adds-invicta-fc-karate-combat-champion-elisandra-ferreira-to-strawweight-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625862\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL adds Invicta FC, Karate Combat champion Elisandra Ferreira to strawweight roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Top Brazilian prospect Elisandra Ferreira has officially joined the Professional Fighters League, MMA Fighting has learned, and she wants a quick rise to a strawweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cLili\u201d enters the promotion after capturing and defending the Invicta FC atomweight belt, and following it up with a strawweight title win in Karate Combat earlier this year. On a seven-fight winning streak combining both sports, Ferreira will continue at 115 pounds for her career in PFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ferreira, 28, holds a professional MMA record of 9-2. Her only loss in her past eight fights was a controversial atomweight title bout in Canada, when she lost a decision after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/9\/13\/23348761\/theres-no-way-that-was-not-intentional-title-fight-ends-controversy-multiple-uncalled-fouls-canada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three alleged uncalled fouls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cA new challenge ahead,\u201d Ferreira told MMA Fighting. \u201cI\u2019m very grateful to my manager, my team, and the Professional Fighters League for the opportunity to compete on one of the biggest stages in global MMA. I\u2019m motivated, focused, and ready to embrace this new journey. Fight news coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">PFL is yet to announce the promotional debut for Ferreira, but she\u2019s currently expected to fight in the first half of 2026. The company has yet to crown champions in several weight classes after moving away from the season format, and is now building a new strawweight division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Brazilian prospect Elisandra Ferreira has officially joined the Professional Fighters League, MMA Fighting has learned, and she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,5963,7613,85],"class_list":["post-625862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-pfl","tag-pfl-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625862","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=625862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}