A one-million dollar prize sure sounds good, but it does not mean everything to former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis.
After parting ways with the promotion he called home for almost the entire last decade, ‘Showtime’ is looking forward to test his skills in a different kind of environment. Enter the Professional Fighters League.
Picked up by the PFL shortly after his last Octagon bout, back in December 2020, Pettis explains what made him sign with that promotion as opposed to other major ones such as Bellator, where his brother Sergio went after leaving the UFC. In his opinion, the tournament format and its short but fair path to the belt was a big plus, on top of the prize money, of course.