{"id":311298,"date":"2026-08-01T01:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311298\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:34:13","slug":"dakota-ditcheva-outpoints-denise-kielholtz-in-underwhelming-performance-at-pfl-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311298\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Ditcheva outpoints Denise Kielholtz in underwhelming performance at PFL New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dakota Ditcheva remains undefeated, but some of the luster may have fallen off her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Saturday night, Ditcheva returned to the cage for the first time in over a year, taking on Denise Kielholtz in the co-main event of PFL New York at UBS Arena in Belmont Park, New York. Considered one of the faces of the PFL, Ditcheva was a massive betting favorite over Kielholtz and expected to put on a statement performance. But while Ditcheva was dominant, \u201cDangerous\u201d didn\u2019t dazzle in her return to the cage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Things got off to a slow start between the two strikers, as Ditcheva struggled to generate big offense against the defensively sound Kielholtz. Business picked up in the second round as Ditcheva was able to hurt Kielholtz a few times and really start opening up her offense on the much smaller woman. Things dropped off in the third round, though, as Kielholtz was simply too durable and too defensively sound to get stopped by Ditcheva\u2019s one-shot offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In the end, Ditcheva took a dominant decision, sweeping the scorecards, but it wasn\u2019t the finish she was hoping for, and, in a shocking turn of events, the PFL even denied her a post-fight speech, moving straight to the main event matchup between Usman Nurmagomedov and Archie Colgan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dakota Ditcheva remains undefeated, but some of the luster may have fallen off her. On Saturday night, Ditcheva&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2497,9,11,10,95270,117673],"class_list":["post-311298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-latest-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pfl","tag-pfl-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}