For a company that claims to put fighters first, the PFL certainly seems to have pissed off a lot of them.
In November 2023, the Professional Fighters League announced that it had purchased Bellator MMA, folding the promotion’s entire roster into its own in an attempt to further compete with the UFC. Thus far, the PFL has run six events with the Bellator name attached, including a PFL vs. Bellator card in 2024 that pitted top stars from the two organizations against one another.
Unfortunately, the promotion rubbed a lot of fighters the wrong way when it canceled events in Chicago, Paris, and Japan that were scheduled to go down between October and December 2024.