Among those taken aback by the announcement that the World Series of Fighting would be transitioning into the league-structured Professional Fighters League beginning in 2018 was Jake Shields, one of the promotion’s most recognizable fighters.
Shields, like the last opponent he faced in the cage, Jon Fitch, found out the new-fangled way that come January things are going to change. That is, when he looked at the Internet.
“Yeah, I kind of found out that as well, kind of reading about it online,” he told MMA Fighting. “I didn’t know too much about it so I called Ali [Abdel-Aziz] and talked to him a little bit, and got some details.