Dakota Ditcheva is one of the hottest women\u2019s prospects in mixed martial arts (MMA) right now, but the only place you\u2019re going to see her fight for the foreseeable future is the PFL.<\/p>\n
Ditcheva is 15-0 with 10 of those wins coming in the PFL, and 8 of those 10 coming via KO \/ TKO. She\u2019s a sniper and a finisher and PFL is hoping her flashy kickboxing ways will help them finally break into the United States when she competes on this Friday\u2019s PFL New York card<\/a> at Belmont Park.<\/p>\n \u201cDangerous\u201d sits in the co-main slot, and above her is PFL lightweight champ Usman Nurmagomedov, who is fighting Archie Colgan in what is the Dagestani fighter\u2019s final fight of his PFL contract. While nothing is set in stone, his teammates have signaled<\/a> that Usman hopes to jump to UFC and capture a title there.<\/p>\n With the UFC always ready to snatch up PFL stars, it\u2019s no surprise that the PFL has locked down Dakota Ditcheva. In a new interview with Ariel Helwani, the 28 year old shared her contractual status with the promotion. Unconfirmed reports recently suggested she was on the verge of becoming a free agent. Ditcheva shot that down.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw that post the other day and thought, \u2018Oh, this is new,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cIt said two fights, two mil. And I was like, \u2018Wrong.\u2019 More fights, more money. I don\u2019t know. More fights, for sure. It\u2019s five fights, I\u2019ve got five fights. The post is wrong. I\u2019ve got four fights after this one.\u201d<\/p>\n Ditcheva played coy about the pay side of things, saying \u201cI don\u2019t know about the money, I just signed some papers. I just roll with anything anyone says \u2026 I\u2019m very happy with my paycheck. I\u2019ve been out for a year so I can\u2019t be saying anything too crazy right now. I\u2019ve not even fought. I\u2019ll humble myself a little bit. But I\u2019m well paid. PFL look after me for sure. And I feel like I give enough back.\u201d<\/p>\n After fighting three times in 2023 and four times in 2024, injuries<\/a> have kept Ditcheva at just one fight in 2025. This fight against Denise Kielholtz will be her first in 2026. Hopefully the pace picks up again now that she\u2019s healthy, but four fights will take a while to fight through even in the best of circumstances.<\/p>\n