𧔠Yet another W for PFL
Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 21:11:15 UTC No. 198643
>Gegard Mousasi is not happy with the PFL.
>âI think they bought Bellator but they donât have the financial means to pay the fighters,â Mousasi said. âWhoever is not necessary, they will just not let them fight. Especially fighters that make a lot of money. Because Bellator fighters make more.
>At the end of 2023, PFL acquired Bellator MMA in a landmark deal, which PFL executives promised would lead to a new era of MMA. Unfortunately, that new era has not extended to Mousasi, who has gotten off to a rough start with PFL, primarily over the lack of fights and even communication coming from the promotion. And after recently attending a PFL event in Paris where Mousasi still made no headway in booking a fight, the former Bellator middleweight champion has reached his limit.
>âYeah, [I feel disrespected] because they donât even want to pick up the phone and talk to us,â Mousasi continued. âItâs not even funny anymore. Itâs the worst organization so far. Iâve fought in a lot of organizations, this is the worst one.â
Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 21:11:54 UTC No. 198644
>Mousasi has not competed since dropping a decision to Fabian Edwards at Bellator 296 in May 2023. The former champion signed a new contract with Bellator prior to the company getting acquired, and Mousasi said heâs been told by PFL officials that they were not aware of his new contract when acquiring Bellator and thatâs why he hasnât been offered a fight.
>âMy contract is a couple million. ... Whatever deal you make, itâs not possible that someone slipped a letter between the other letters and no one found out. Everything has to be signed by lawyers. So whatever they did, they knew about it. They said theyâd take everyone from [Bellator]. So they took me, they knew the contract, and now theyâre like, âWell, they slipped it in.â Youâre not buying McDonaldâs, youâre buying a million-dollar company. Itâs not believable that they didnât know and someone wanted to f*** with them, so they did a very fast contract and no one knew about it. Itâs just not true. Everything has to go through lawyers. âI donât know why you even took Bellator if you donât have the money to let the fighters fight.â
>âIâve talked to legal council, Iâve talked to managers, lawyers, other people who worked for Bellator, I know I have a contract,â Mousasi said. âThey owe me at least one fight, and then they can let the clock run out. At least. So it doesnât start until I fight. Something like that. The problem is, you never know who is going to win in a lawsuit. So I hope it doesnât get there.â
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