{"id":364721,"date":"2025-12-23T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:14:07","slug":"ditcheva-pulls-out-of-feb-7-pfl-bout-with-latest-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364721\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditcheva pulls out of Feb. 7 PFL bout with latest injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brett OkamotoDec 23, 2025, 06:04 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\n

Sidelined by injuries for much of 2025, Dakota Ditcheva<\/a> will begin the new year with more of the same.<\/p>\n

An undisclosed injury has forced Ditcheva (15-0) to withdraw from a scheduled bout against Denise Kielholtz<\/a> (8-5) on Feb. 7 in Dubai, officials announced Tuesday. The PFL did not reveal the nature of Ditcheva’s injury or an expected timeframe for her return.<\/p>\n

The flyweight matchup was meant to complement a main card that features two title fights, including a lightweight main event between defending champion Usman Nurmagomedov<\/a> and Alfie Davis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ditcheva, a 27-year-old native of Manchester, is arguably PFL’s biggest star but has not fought since she suffered a broken hand during a decision win over Sumiko Inaba<\/a> in July. Immediately after that victory, Ditcheva announced she had signed a new deal to remain with the PFL, but she has yet to compete since that announcement.<\/p>\n

Ditcheva has gone the distance only twice in her career, with 12 of her pro wins coming via knockout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoDec 23, 2025, 06:04 PM ET CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-364721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}