Dakota Ditcheva

He has to be next for Pyotr Ilyan.

Prior to that, we're going to be joined by Dakota Ditcheva.

Going to talk to her about her hands, about Liz losing to Jenna Bishop, the new era starting in 2027, the MVP taking over PFL.

And prior to that, in about 30 minutes time, the great John Kavanagh of SBG going to join us.

Always great to catch up with the one and only John Kavanagh.

I appreciate his time and insight.

As always, we will be joined by Dakota Ditcheva and then Sean O'Malley.

We were just talking about Mr. Alex Volkanovsky.

Can't wait for that.

Dakota Ditcheva and John Cavanaugh joining us as well.

Not to be confused with Lonnie Cavanaugh.

So that will be tomorrow on the program.

We did it.

We did it, guys.

Tomorrow on the program, John Cavanaugh, Dakota Ditcheva, Sean O'Malley.

I tweeted something earlier today.

And, uh, By all accounts, she's going to be the last one to hold the belt because it's going to become the MVP title in the not too distant future.

And it seems as though she's going to fight Dakota Ditcheva in another rematch for her.

Let's talk to her about it all.

She's kind enough to join us on this Wednesday afternoon.

Not a big deal.

The big talking point, though, after this, so obviously we've wanted to see Dakota Ditcheva versus Liz Karmouche for a while now.

For various reasons, they didn't make the fight.

Now, the one time they can't be blamed is now.

Yeah?

The only thing I will say is...

There are very few interesting fights for Dakota Ditcheva, and a rematch with Jenna Bishop is not one of them.

Jenna Bishop beat

She should just be like, I want to go to PFL.

She can go fight Dakota Ditcheva, and she might actually win that fight.

I don't know.

she would be she might go out there she could probably go beat jenna bishop right now she would have a pretty good run with mvpfl because yeah they're they're looking for a couple of stars and aaron's not one of them honestly she just doesn't have that charisma but she is good enough to compete there she's net the ufc is never going to push her to the belt now there's just no chance she and she just got run over tonight by jasmine jazz davisius You could have scored both of those first two rounds 10 eights if you wanted to.

Hey, she's, she's making, uh...

We, we're calling Dakota Ditcheva, Duchava with Liz Carmouche here-

Wow

... being champion, so.

I think the bit, the toughest part about this, and it's like super-duper unfair to, to Jenna because, like, what's Jenna gonna do, right? Is she just gonna say, "No, I'm not fighting for the belt 'cause she knocked my ass out in Charlotte a year ago"? Of course she's gonna say yes to this fight.

It's for a belt, and it's for a huge opportunity f- with a mega fight with Dakota Ditcheva next.

Like, there's so much at stake in this fight, so, like, she'd be crazy to say no to this.

But, like, this is just not...

It's one of those situations where, like, PFL is once again just giving us half of what we want, and we want Liz Carmouche versus Dakota Ditcheva.

Like, this is the one we want.

We want to see how good Dakota actually is, and we wanna see if Liz can beat her.

And yeah, she's lost along the way, which makes some of these newer match-ups fresh too.

She's, she's already beaten Jenna Bishop.

Uh, we're just waiting on Dakota Ditcheva to get back from injury.

Yeah, 75%.

It, it feels like it is, it really is.

Any concern...

I was about to say any concern-

Jenna Bishop also lost to Dakota Ditcheva as well.

Yeah, I was about to say any concern that Liz Carmouche is 42 years old, but Jenna Bishop's 40.

She beat Jenna last summer, um, but Jenna has won a couple fights since then.

And to be honest, it seemed like they wanted to do Liz Carmouche versus Dakota Ditcheva for the vacant women's flyweight title, but Dakota obviously hurt both hands after her last win in, uh, in late July against, uh, Denise Kielholtz.

So they're doing this fight, and hopefully she'll fight the winner.

Uh, Liz is, you know, an absolute legend of the game.

So I definitely thought that, okay, maybe I might want to retire.

But I n- had never put a date on it because I didn't want to restrict myself and put that limitation and start to take my foot off the gas and underperform because I'd already put a stamp on the date I was gonna end it.

Um, I, I've talked about the, the idea of you fighting Dakota Ditcheva for some time.

I think it's one of the best fights PFL could put on, and we were hoping after her last win that we would finally see you guys fight for the vacant title.