{"id":834499,"date":"2026-07-29T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834499\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:25:13","slug":"dakota-ditcheva-opens-as-huge-pfl-ny-betting-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834499\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Ditcheva Opens As Huge PFL NY Betting Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Professional Fighters League (PFL) Flyweight superstar Dakota Ditcheva finally returns to action this weekend against Denise Kielholtz in the co-main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/professional-fighters-league-pfl\/457386\/pfl-new-york-full-fight-card-espn-start-time-nurmagomedov-vs-colgan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PFL New York<\/a>, which goes down Fri., July 31, 2026, inside UBS Arena in Belmont Park, New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And oddsmakers believe \u201cDangerous\u201d is going to absolutely smoke her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ditcheva\u2019s betting line has exploded during fight week. She originally <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FightOdds_io\/status\/2082212865969144198?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">opened as a massive -1800 favorite<\/a>, with Kielholtz coming back at +700. However, Ditcheva now sits around -5000 on most books, and on some sportsbooks, she has ballooned as high as -8000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That makes her one of \u2014 if not the \u2014 biggest betting favorites in mixed martial arts (MMA) history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ditcheva\u2019s line makes that look almost normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ditcheva (15-0) returns from a year-long layoff after breaking her hand against Sumiko Inaba and then re-injuring it again in training. The 28-year-old has been sensational thus far in PFL, winning all 10 of her fights under the promotion\u2019s banner, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/8\/2\/24212352\/highlights-dakota-ditcheva-steamrolls-jena-bishop-million-finals-match-taila-santos-pfl-nashville\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nine of those victories coming by finish.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ditcheva has not just been winning \u2014 she has been mauling people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kielholtz (9-5), meanwhile, is a longtime Bellator veteran who made her PFL debut earlier this year, defeating Antonia Silvaneide. She was originally booked against Ditcheva earlier this year, but Ditcheva withdrew because of her hand injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out their staredown below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For all the latest PFL news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/professional-fighters-league-pfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professional Fighters League (PFL) Flyweight superstar Dakota Ditcheva finally returns to action this weekend against Denise Kielholtz in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,8810,82,264568],"class_list":["post-834499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-sports","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834499","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=834499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}