{"id":848977,"date":"2026-08-09T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848977\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:48:08","slug":"battle-splits-rosta-offers-to-welcome-jake-paul-to-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848977\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Splits Rosta, Offers To Welcome Jake Paul To MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Battle defeated Dalton Rosta via split decision at PFL Charlotte on Friday night and immediately offered to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/jake-paul\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a> to mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>Battle claimed his first PFL win in the main event at Bojangles Coliseum after dropping his promotional debut to Johnny Eblen five months earlier, according to MMA Mania. Rosta absorbed his third consecutive loss. When asked about facing Paul \u2014 who recently merged his MVP promotion with PFL in what Sherdog called a landmark deal \u2014 Battle said he would be open to it, though he doubted the YouTuber-turned-boxer would accept the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>What Happened In The Co-Main Event<\/p>\n<p>Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov edged Simeon Powell via split decision in the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/light-&lt;a href=\" http:=\"\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavyweight<\/a>\/&#8221; class=&#8221;internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2&#8243;&gt;light heavyweight co-feature, per Sherdog&#8217;s round-by-round coverage. Aaron Jeffery took a unanimous decision over Joshua Silveira at <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/middleweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight<\/a>. Earlier on the card, Denis Goltsov stopped Hasan Mezhiev in the first round, while Josh Fremd finished Jhony Gregory by second-round TKO.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell Djantou Nana knocked out Eduardo Neves with a body shot at 2:01 of the third round in a heavyweight clash that saw both men wobbled. Trey Waters battered Trukon Carson with elbows in his <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/welterweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welterweight<\/a> debut, forcing a stoppage at 4:37 of round one. Cheyanne Bowers submitted Elora Dana in the first round at <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/flyweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flyweight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PFL&#8217;s next event takes place in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credit\">Photo: The White House \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jake_Paul_March_2026_(cropped).jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, Public domain<\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Original reporting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Battle defeated Dalton Rosta via split decision at PFL Charlotte on Friday night and immediately offered to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-848977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848977","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=848977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}