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Morning Report | Dakota Ditcheva broke both hands at PFL New York

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Morning Report | Dakota Ditcheva broke both hands at PFL New York

Dakota Ditcheva has another layoff ahead of her.

In July, Ditcheva returned to the cage after a year-long absence, winning a decision over Denise Kielholtz at PFL New York. Ditcheva's long layoff was, in part, due to breaking her hands. And now, she's done it again.

On Sunday, Ditcheva posted a video to her YouTube channel revealing that she re-broke both her hands in her fight at PFL New York.

â€Breaking news: I am injured again,†Ditcheva said. “I broke my hands in the fight. I could feel it from the second I started the second round. I didn't tell my corner. I didn't tell anybody. I didn't show it this time, and I didn't actually tell anybody until I got out of the cage. …

“I am back in splints until my surgeon has decided what the next steps are going forward, which will be in the next few days.â€

This is an unfortunate setback for Ditcheva, who appeared to be on a collision course with PFL flyweight champion Liz Carmouche, hopefully later this year. Now, that timeline has been thrown into question. But Ditcheva says there is a silver lining to the whole thing: this isn't a new problem.

“The good thing is I have no new breaks,†Ditcheva explained. “It's just that, I explained the hand that wasn't operated on originally that I broke at the end of last year; I was told that if I didn't go ahead with the surgery at that time, there was a possibility that it would break again in my fight. And unfortunately, I took the risk in not doing the surgery because I was hoping that it would hold strong without intervening with that kind of thing – and it didn't.

“So, it's no new injury. That is kind of the positives I'm taking from it. … It was a choice of mine to have the surgery the first time, and I didn't. So therefore, I'm paying the price for it now, and I will be out for a little bit. It is what it is. I'm going to move forward. I have honestly cried nonstop the last week.â€

There's no timeline on how long Ditcheva may be forced out of action due to her latest injury, and for now, all she can do is hope that this time goes faster than the last one.

“I will be back,†Ditcheva said. “This is not going to take me out. My career is not done. Although it felt like that once again, I will be back. I'm hopefully going to be back quicker than I was last time.â€

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Paulo Costa slams UFC pay after Rampage Jacksons $7 million claim

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Paulo Costa slams UFC pay after Rampage Jackson's $7 million claim
Paulo
Costa has renewed his criticism of fighter pay in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship.

A resurfaced clip shows UFC middleweight champion Sean
Strickland asking former light heavyweight champion Quinton
“Rampage” Jackson about his biggest UFC payday. Jackson said he
earned $7 million, including pay-per-view compensation, for
fighting Chuck
Liddell. Costa contrasted that figure with his estimate of what
a current UFC fighter earns.

Paulo Costa compares Rampage Jackson’s claimed $7 million
payday with estimated Raoni Barcelos earnings

Jackson attributed the payday to a contract he signed with World
Fighting Alliance, where he said his manager also had a promotional
role. According to Jackson, the deal included lucrative
pay-per-view terms that the UFC inherited when its parent company
acquired WFA assets in December 2006.

“$7 million, Chuck Liddell, that was pay-per-view, though,†Jackson
told Strickland. “I left
Pride. My manager, he became like the manager of the show. So,
he knew exactly that it was his biggest deal. They didn't want to
have pay-per-view, so he gave me a crazy pay-per-view deal. Then
Dana White bought WFA and had to honor my pay-per-view deal.â€

Costa compared Jackson's account with Raoni
Barcelos' stoppage loss to Raul Rosas
Jr. last month. Barcelos, 39, lost consciousness during a
fifth-round grappling exchange. Costa speculated that Barcelos
earned between $80,000 and $100,000, contrasting that estimate with
Jackson's claimed earnings from his 2007 victory over Liddell.

“UFC paid Rampage 7 million to fight Chuck what is comprehensive,â€
Costa wrote on X. “Not comparing fighters relevance but comparing
it with Barcelos x Rosas Jr 5 rds and had serious injuries on brain
damage, made 80k~100k ?? Raoni Barcelos is around 40s and probably
retired due to that injury.â€

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Video shows police officer slamming spectator at UFC Edmonton

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October 29, 2026

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Video shows police officer slamming spectator at UFC Edmonton
The
Ultimate Fighting Championship's recent visit to Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada, featured action inside and outside the
Octagon.

Police intervene in Rogers Place crowd altercation during UFC
Edmonton

Every bout at
UFC Edmonton except the co-main event ended in a finish. But a
crowd altercation at Rogers Place on Oct. 17 also drew
attention.

Video circulating on social media appears to show a police officer
lifting a man and slamming him to the floor as officers intervene
in the altercation. The man appears to lose consciousness after the
impact.

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GFL announces new signings for December relaunch in Argentina

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GFL announces new signings for December relaunch in Argentina

The Global Fight League is expected to relaunch in December and the organization has announced its opening roster of fighters for the Buenos Aires Gauchos team.

This past weekend, the GFL announced it will hold its inaugural event on Dec. 18 at Club Atletico Lanus in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the Gauchos taking on fighters from the Miami Monsters. Now, the league has begun to name the fighters who will compete for the Gauchos, which you can see in the list below.

Middleweight: Dante Romero (9-8)

Welterweight: Matias Ponce (12-5, 1 NC)

Lightweight: Franco Rios (4-0)

Lightweight: Thomas Juarez (6-2)

Featherweight: Lionel Abojer (12-4)

Featherweight: Eduardo Cajal (9-5)

Bantamweight: Ryan Martinez (9-1)

Flyweight: Nicolas Rodriguez (9-3)

More fighters are expected to be announced, including the roster for the Monsters.

Former UFC title contender and longtime MMA veteran Marlon Moraes was recently added to the Miami roster, but MMA Fighting's Guilherme Cruz has learned from sources with knowledge of the event that Moraes will not be competing on the Dec. 18 card.

It is not yet known exactly how the team vs. team format will work, but the league has shared its scoring system for future events:

The GFL made headlines in 2025 with lofty promises in regards to athlete compensation and the signing of numerous MMA stars and veterans including , including former UFC champions Tyron Woodley, Chris Weidman, Luke Rockhold, Anthony Pettis, and Holly Holm, but has failed to produce an event thus far. Initially, the league was supposed to hold a pair of shows on May 24 and May 25 in 2025, only for those events to be later cancelled.

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