{"id":711389,"date":"2026-06-02T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711389\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:42:08","slug":"daniel-marcos-joins-pfl-3-days-after-ufc-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711389\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Marcos joins PFL 3 days after UFC departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It didn\u2019t take long for Daniel Marcos to find a new MMA promotion to call home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Three days after MMA Fighting reported Marcos had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/491233\/ufc-removes-4-fighters-from-roster-including-18-1-bantamweight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parted ways with the UFC<\/a> after completing his deal, the 33-year-old Peruvian bantamweight announced on social media he has signed a contract with the Professional Fighters League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">PFL has yet to announce a date and opponent for Marcos\u2019 debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Marcos\u2019 departure from the UFC was a surprising one considering his success inside the octagon. \u201cSoncora\u201d joined the company after beating Brandon Lewis at Dana White\u2019s Contender Series in 2022 and then suffered only one loss in seven UFC bouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Apart from a loss to Montel Jackson in 2025 and as no-contest against Aoriqileng, Marcos won five bouts in the UFC, capped off by a second-round submission victory against Miles Johns for an overall record of 18-1 and 1 no contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It didn\u2019t take long for Daniel Marcos to find a new MMA promotion to call home. Three days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711390,"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-711389","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\/711389","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=711389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}