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PFL Reveals Lineup for 2025 World Flyweight Tournament

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The field is set for Professional Fighters League’s upcoming women’s flyweight tournament — but one notable name is missing from the lineup.

The promotion announced the eight-woman roster for the 2025 World Flyweight Tournament on Tuesday, and it includes quite a few familiar faces. However, 2024 flyweight champion Dakota Ditcheva will not be part of the bracket. That likely means that Ditcheva, who is one of the PFL’s top stars, will be part of one of the promotion’s high-profile events in the coming months.

The tournament roster will include six fighters who competed in the PFL season format last year (Taila Santos, Liz Carmouche, Kana Watanabe, Juliana Velasquez, Jena Bishop and Ilara Joanne) and two newcomers (Elora Dana and Diana Avsaragova).

Santos, a former UFC flyweight title challenger, fell to Ditcheva via second-round TKO at the PFL Championships last year. Carmouche, who held 125-pound gold in Bellator and challenged for the flyweight and bantamweight titles in the UFC, fell to Santos in the flyweight semifinals last year. Bishop was the other postseason participant in 2024.

The 2025 PFL World Tournament will begin with events on April 3, April 11, April 18 and May 1 at the backlot of Universal Studios Florida in Orlando. The winner of each bracket will receive a $500,000 bonus, and the tournament as a whole will provide payouts of more than $20 million. Events will be broadcast on the family of ESPN platforms in the United States.

Tournament matchups will be revealed on March 11 as part of a special bracket reveal show.

Flyweight Division – 2025 PFL World Tournament

Taila Santos – Brazil
Liz Carmouche – United States
Kana Watanabe – Japan
Juliana Velasquez – Brazil
Jena Bishop – United States
Elora Dana – Brazil
Ilara Joanne – Brazil
Diana Avsaragova – Russia

This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com

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